The Vanishing Man
Hear art critic Laura Cumming discuss how a Velázquez painting changed both her life and that of John Snare's – the Victorian bookseller’s at the heart of her latest novel, 'The Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velázquez', a compelling synthesis of detective story and biography.
Snare came across a dirt-blackened portrait of a prince at a country house auction in 1845. Suspecting that it might be a long-lost Velázquez, he bought the picture and set out to discover its strange history. When Cumming stumbled across the story, it sent her on a quest of her own, following him from London to Edinburgh and 19th-century New York, and from triumph to ruin.
Cumming is joined by Letizia Treves, Curator of Italian and Spanish Paintings 1600–1800, to consider how and why Velázquez's paintings mesmerise us and why some were overlooked and misattributed for centuries.
Suitable for
18+
Admission
£7/£6 concession/£5 Members
Website
https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/whats-on/calendar/the-vanishing-man-10-june-2016-18-30
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