by Richard Cocke
The first in a series of six talks by different speakers on important paintings in British Galleries.
Paolo Veronese's grand painting "The Family of Darius Before Alexander" - together with a complete X-ray of it - is on view at the National Gallery in London as their current 'Painting in Focus'. Richard Cocke , who is at present preparing a book on Veronese, considers one of the unresolved problems this painting has always presented to posterity.
(29 April: Canaletto at Warwick Castle. Speaker David Piper)