T J Clark | Strange Space | Building the Picture

Renowned art historian T J Clark explores the strange space created within Lorenzo Costa and Gianfrancesco Maineri’s ‘The Virgin and Child with Saints’, about 1498-1500.

Taking one of the great altarpieces in the National Gallery as his example, T J Clark reveals how the highly illusionistic architectural spaces Italian Renaissance painters create are far from what they seem.

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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http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/building-the-picture

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