Few royal families have inspired as much historical, literary, and artistic content as Henry VIII and his six wives. From portraiture to endless biographies, movies, and television series, the king and his string of wives—Katherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Katherine Howard, and Katherine Parr—are simply and endlessly fascinating. In its first exhibition of historical portraiture since reopening, the National Portrait Gallery presents Hans Holbein the Younger’s Tudor paintings of the six wives alongside contemporary photographic reinterpretations by Hiroshi Sugimoto. The show analyzes the cultural significance of these women through the centuries, and includes art, photography, film, costume, and ephemera along with Sugimoto’s symbiotic portraits. —Lucy Horowitz