 Henry cultivated the image of a Renaissance man , and his court was a centre of scholarly and artistic innovation and glamorous excess , epitomised by the Field of the Cloth of Gold . He scouted the country for choirboys , taking some directly from Wolsey 's choir , and introduced Renaissance music into court . Musicians included Benedict de <unk> , Richard Sampson , Ambrose Lupo , and Venetian organist Dionisio Memo . 
