Tudor LivelinessA groundbreaking approach to the problem of realism in Tudor art In Tudor and Jacobean England, visual art was often termed lively. This word was used to describe the full range of visual and material culturefrom portraits to funeral monuments, book illustrations to tapestry. To a modern viewer, this claim seems perplexing: what could liveliness have meant in a culture with seemingly little appreciation for illusionistic naturalism? And in a period