Rosie Thorp in conversation with the Project Team Rosie: You no longer believe the painting to be by El Greco – can you explain more about why you’ve decided this? Pippa: Our extensive programme of research on the painting followed on from the technical analysis of it carried out in Madrid in 2014 at the … Continue reading Preliminary Findings on the Lady in a Fur Wrap
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Photographing the Project II
In this post we continue looking at photography of the portraits in our Unwrapping an Icon project. Sir William Stirling Maxwell was a pioneer of photography of art and the reproduction of art through techniques that were then new and experimental. As mentioned in our introductory post for this blog, his Annals of the Artists … Continue reading Photographing the Project II
WORKSHOP ON DRESS AND JEWELLERY, VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM
The dress and jewellery represented in the Lady in a Fur Wrap portrait may provide invaluable clues as to the status and identity of the sitter and the dating of the portrait, yet the combination of elements remains puzzling. Over the years, scholars have commented on a number of aspects of the dress and jewellery … Continue reading WORKSHOP ON DRESS AND JEWELLERY, VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM
Research Trip to Madrid, November 2017
Our recent research trip to Madrid was a major event in the project so far, thanks to funding from the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Pippa Stephenson (Curator of European Art, Glasgow Museums), Mark Richter (Technical Art Historian, University of Glasgow) and I were able to benefit from a one-day workshop with our colleagues at the … Continue reading Research Trip to Madrid, November 2017
Unwrapping an Icon 