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Laura Cumming

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
150 total appearances

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The Rest Is History
The Arnolfini Portrait, with Laura Cumming

We'll come to that in a minute, too.

The Rest Is History
The Arnolfini Portrait, with Laura Cumming

And she's wearing a white head cloth.

The Rest Is History
The Arnolfini Portrait, with Laura Cumming

She looks remarkably like, if you know any...

The Rest Is History
The Arnolfini Portrait, with Laura Cumming

Portraits by Jan van Eyck.

The Rest Is History
The Arnolfini Portrait, with Laura Cumming

She looks very like the women in those portraits.

The Rest Is History
The Arnolfini Portrait, with Laura Cumming

So quite sort of low countries, again, very pale, slightly reddish hair.

The Rest Is History
The Arnolfini Portrait, with Laura Cumming

And she's looking not at him and he is looking not quite at her.

The Rest Is History
The Arnolfini Portrait, with Laura Cumming

We'll come to that in a moment.

The Rest Is History
The Arnolfini Portrait, with Laura Cumming

Her floor are the beginning of a whole sequence of details.

The Rest Is History
The Arnolfini Portrait, with Laura Cumming

There are wooden patterns.

The Rest Is History
The Arnolfini Portrait, with Laura Cumming

Those are those shoes that you put on over your shoes to go out in the mud.

The Rest Is History
The Arnolfini Portrait, with Laura Cumming

They're his and they still have a little mud on them.

The Rest Is History
The Arnolfini Portrait, with Laura Cumming

There's a dog right at the front of the painting, a bristly, merry little dog.

The Rest Is History
The Arnolfini Portrait, with Laura Cumming

Nobody knows quite what breed it is.

The Rest Is History
The Arnolfini Portrait, with Laura Cumming

It's got a very wet little nose.

The Rest Is History
The Arnolfini Portrait, with Laura Cumming

It's very mischievous.

The Rest Is History
The Arnolfini Portrait, with Laura Cumming

There's a whole theory about this painting related to the dog.

The Rest Is History
The Arnolfini Portrait, with Laura Cumming

He certainly doesn't look like a solemn dog, does he?

The Rest Is History
The Arnolfini Portrait, with Laura Cumming

And there are three oranges and one above on a window ledge.

The Rest Is History
The Arnolfini Portrait, with Laura Cumming

The shutters of the window have been very carefully opened on the left-hand side so you can see into a garden.