The Principles Of The Tower

THE GALLERY OFFERS "THE PRINCIPLES OF THE TOWER" IMPORTANT COPY HOMAGE TO THE MOST FAMOUS PAINTING OF "SIR PAUL DELAROCHE". M.DE LA BROISE PAINTER FOLLOWING THE GREAT ARTIST DEDICATED THIS WORK TO HIS MASTER H 92CM X L105 CM WITH VINTAGE FRAME LUCA 3393797813 CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY Tower of London In 1674, during restoration work on the Tower of London, workers found a wooden box, buried under the steps leading to the White Tower chapel, containing two skeletons of children. In fact, there had previously been a similar find in an old room that had been walled up, a place very similar to that described by Thomas More who, however, also stated that the bones had been moved to a safer location. [23 ]. In any case, the bones found in 1674 also showed traces of some velvet clothes, which indicated an aristocratic origin [24] and, four years after the discovery, by order of King Charles II, they were placed in an urn placed in Westminster Abbey. , with the following inscription [2]: 'Here lie the remains of Edward V, King of England, and Richard, Duke of York. These brothers were imprisoned in the Tower of London and suffocated there with pillows, buried in private and in haste on the orders of their uncle Richard the Usurper; their bones, long sought and desired, were found after 191 years on July 17, 1674 at the foot of the staircase (leading to the Chapel of the White Tower) where they had been stored, and have been recognized according to irrefutable evidence. Charles II, compassionate prince, complained of their unhappy fate, ordered that these princes be buried among the graves of their predecessors. Year 1678, XXX of his reign. "