Cure
Family of English sculptors and stonemasons of Netherlandish origin. The founder, William I (d 1579), moved to England in about 1540 to work on Henry VIII’s Nonsuch Palace and became ...
Nicholas Hilliard
(c. 1547–1619),miniaturist, patronized by Elizabeth I and later by James I. He wrote an interesting treatise, the Art of Limning (1603), which records discussions with Sir P. Sidney and Elizabeth I. ...
Valois
The French royal house from the accession of Philip VI, successor to the last Capetian king, in 1328 to the death of Henry III (1589), when the throne passed to the Bourbons.
