It’s been a week now since we saw the Mantegna show at the Louvre in Paris. One thing of note that was particularly interesting for Halfslant was the thematic emphasis on Mantegna’s love of detail.
With the large and varied crowd that the Louvre draws, it’s difficult to curate a show without either leaving some people behind, or boring the regulars. The Mantegna show used small written introductions to a select series of works that asked the audience to look for key images in each painting.
This “Where’s Waldo” approach was very fun and extremely effective - serving as a prompt to one of the most important dialogues a person can have with a painting, what is this and why was it painted?
January 26, 2009, 11:37am
