Classic English Literature
Penelope Devereux was perhaps one of the finest exponents of the renaissance art and literature art historians. While she inspired some of the finest Elizabethan poetry and sonnet sequence by Sir Philip Sidney in Astrophel and Stella, it is with utmost curiosity that generations later, people sought to see this person in flesh. An undated photo which many historians claimed to be that of her and her sister Dorothy, and taken with many other paintings from Leicester House and listed among the paintings in the high gallery shows the two sisters in costumes worn in the late 1570s. While ...
