Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Princess Margrethe (later Queen Margrethe II of Denmark), an accomplished and critically acclaimed painter, was inspired to create illustrations to The Lord of the Rings in the early 1970s. Tolkien liked her woodcut -style drawings, seeing in them a resemblance to the style of some of his own artwork.
Princess Mary and Prince Frederik attend the traditional new year reception, after Queen Margrethe made her shock announcement about abdication. Patrick van Katwijk - Getty Images October 2023
Princess Margrethe (now Queen Margrethe II) of Denmark, an accomplished and critically acclaimed painter, was inspired to create illustrations to The Lord of the Rings in the early 1970s. [5] In 1977, Queen Margrethe's drawings were published in the Danish translation of the book, redrawn by the British artist Eric Fraser. [6]
The Danish queen celebrated her golden jubilee this year. Here, take a look back at Queen Margrethe's life—from her childhood in Copenhagen through her annual summer vacation in France.
After Tolkien's death in 1973, many artists have created illustrations of Middle-earth characters and landscapes, in media ranging from Alexander Korotich's scraperboard depictions, [25] to Margrethe II of Denmark's woodcut-style drawings, [23] Sergey Yuhimov's Russian Orthodox icon-style representations, [26] and Donato Giancola's neoclassical ...
A painting by Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II is going up for auction in March, with an estimate of $11,000-$15,000. ... Keld Navntoft/Scanpix Denmark/AFP/Getty Images ... who took the throne as ...
Reigning Queens portrays the four ruling queens at the time – Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, and Queen Ntfombi Twala of Swaziland. The images used by Warhol to make the screen prints were derived from official photographs.
Denmark ushered in a new era on Sunday as King Frederik X ascended to the throne after his mother, Queen Margrethe II, formally signed her abdication.