The National Gallery's Grand Tour started yesterday. Thirty full-size reproductions of paintings by old masters are being hung on the streets of central London for the next six weeks. Quite a few are in Covent Garden.
Prospect approves, as we have long been in favour of reproducing great works of art for more people to enjoy.
You might want to print a map showing where all the paintings are rather than, say, relying on Tuesday's edition of the London Paper, which gave Rubens' Samson and Delilah * the location and title of a Caravaggio.
I just hope that no one went there to see it, only to be confronted by the severed head of John the Baptist.
*(Although some people have been arguing for years that the painting in the National Gallery is a reproduction too.)
Street art
June 13, 2007
