15 October 2024
King Richard II & the Wilton Diptych
This video focuses on the Wilton Diptych, a painting in the National Gallery in London. One of the finest panel paintings to survive from the fourteenth century, it was commissioned by King Richard II in the 1390s. A complex man and perhaps a failure as a king, Richard's altarpiece was comisssioned as part of an elaborate programme of image curation. Full of complex symbolism, in this video I explore the meaning of its iconography, and the function and purpose of the altarpiece.
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