John David Rhodes | Entering the Picture | Building the Picture

How do Italian renaissance painters and Hollywood film directors use architecture to get us to ‘enter the picture’?

Taking Antonello da Messina’s ‘Saint Jerome in his Study,’ about 1475, and the films of 1950s director Douglas Sirk as examples, film historian John David Rhodes reveals how both use the same devices to stage entrances, fracture time across space and make us long to enter the detailed worlds they create.

This film is one of five giving contemporary perspectives on the National Gallery exhibition ‘Building the Picture: Architecture in Italian Renaissance Painting’ (30 April – 21 September 2014).

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