Hello and I hope that everyone is doing well. There’s a video link at the bottom. I’m putting this in the General Europe category, as museums across Europe (and undoubtedly, the world) have been affected by closures and postponements. But this especially involves an exhibit with art sourced from many nations, showing at the National Gallery in London, a Titian exhibit. The master painter had created several paintings over several years, for Philip II of Spain, a wealthy customer who was pious but also had an eye for female nudity in art. The works eventually were spread to other places in the world, some moving many times. This brings them together, for the first time ever. Titian himself never saw them all at once.
But this exhibit was only open for 3 days in mid-March. We were there one of them. The curator was there with a guest, and I heard him mention that it was unknown how much longer the show could remain open. And now, the National Gallery has been closed for 2 months.
The video below is of the museum director, stopping in while the place has been shut. It shows some art in natural light. Odd seeing the Titian paintings, with just him in the room. Also unexpected was him going in through a different door than what was designed for the public entrance to the exhibit. That’s a reminder that access in the stately building can be configured in different ways for different displays, without permanently changing the building itself.
The audio isn’t outstanding in some parts of the video, but it’s encouraging that the art survives, and will be viewable again, sometime, under some means.
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