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This is the series where Bendor Grosvenor finds sleepers in public art collections (and social historian Emma Dabiri wanders around to no great purpose)
Episode 1, Oxford.
Bendor finds a portrait in Oxford University's Bodleian Library, "where it carried my favourite attribution -- unknown artist", which Bendor thinks is by Batoni.
Later, Bendor visits a church in Rome and admires Batoni's altar piece: "I find it hard to believe this is the work of someone just starting out in the the altar-painting business. It's a masterpiece."
The university's own art history department must be metaphorically kicking itself. All its dons walking past this picture without giving it a second thought.
On iplayer at
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0009trk/britains-lost-masterpieces-series-4-1-oxford
Episode 1, Oxford.
Bendor finds a portrait in Oxford University's Bodleian Library, "where it carried my favourite attribution -- unknown artist", which Bendor thinks is by Batoni.
Later, Bendor visits a church in Rome and admires Batoni's altar piece: "I find it hard to believe this is the work of someone just starting out in the the altar-painting business. It's a masterpiece."
The university's own art history department must be metaphorically kicking itself. All its dons walking past this picture without giving it a second thought.
On iplayer at
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0009trk/britains-lost-masterpieces-series-4-1-oxford
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Tbh I missed this on telly during the week but it is on BBC4 Wednesdays at 9pm.
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Episode 2: two paintings in Birmingham, one literally broken in half which undergoes an incredible restoration job. Bendor is not always right, it turns out.
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Emma Dabiri
 can wander around to no purpose for the whole series and it will suit me.I will look into BMAG next time I go into Brum to see if they have the Flemish masterpiece on show. |
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Episode 3: Cardiff.
Bendor on the artist's nom-de-paintbrush: His slightly older brother was known as Botticello, which means "the barrel", so when young Alessandro came along, he became known as "the little barrel" -- Botticelli. Blessed are they who endure life with a silly name! |
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Also an interesting potted history of Florence under the Medici. Being an ill-educated philistine, I had not known that was where the phrase Bonfire of the Vanities originated.
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