Dulwich Picture Gallery,London
The surfaces of Van Dyck’s paintings are all glitter, but the stories they tell are often shockingly morbid
What would it be like whether the ghost of a illustrious artist came back to see his paintings, or flitting among the 21st century gallery crowds with his Laughing Cavalier moustache? That’s what happens in I Am Van Dyck at Dulwich Picture Gallery. While people queue for the gallery’s hit MC Escher exhibition,the 17th century master Anthony van Dyck, back from the dead, and gazes past them at the gallery’s collection of some of his most memorable paintings.
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Source: theguardian.com