Thomas Campbell’s Henry VIII and the Art of Majesty: Tapestries at the Tudor Court is a must read for anyone interested in tapestry, patronage studies, and cultural history. It is the latest addition to an important group of books mapping the tapestry patronage and collections of early modern royalty and nobility: Clifford Brown and Guy Delmarcel examined the Gonzaga collection (Tapestries for the Courts of Federico Ii, Ercole, and Ferrante Gonzaga, 1522–1563, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1996); Lucia Meoni has already published two out of four volumes that focus on the Medici tapestries (Gli arazzi nei musei fiorentini. La collezione medicea: catalogo completo. I: La manifattura da Cosimo I a Cosimo II (1545–1621) [Livorno: Sillabe, 1998]; and Gli arazzi nei musei fiorentini. La collezione medicea: catalogo completo. II: La manifattura all’epoca della reggenza delle granduchesse Cristina di Lorena e Maria Maddalena d’Austria. La direzione di Jacopo Ebert van Asselt (1621–1629) [Livorno: Sillabe, 2007]); Pascal-François Bertrand analysed the Barberini tapestry patronage (Les tapisseries des Barberini et la décoration d’intérieur dans la Rome baroque, Turnhout: Brepols, 2005); Hanns Hubach is re-creating the tapestry collection of the Electors Palatine; and Iain Buchanan will present in the near future his eagerly awaited study...