Desmond Shawe-Taylor on Vermeer and Lotto
December 1 2020
Video: Royal Collection Trust
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Royal Collection Trust has posted another interesting video on some of the Queen's pictures that will feature in Masterpieces from Buckingham Palace. In this particular example we hear Desmond Shawe-Taylor, Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures, giving some thoughts on Realism, Use of Materials, Design and Expression in two works by Vermeer and Lorenzo Lotto.
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