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Novelist John Banville discusses Bronzino: An Allegory with Venus and Cupid.
Born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945, John Banville is a philosophical novelist concerned with the nature of perception and the conflict between imagination and reality.
His work is rich in art-historical references. The central character of his 1997 novel 'The Untouchable' is based on the art historian and spy Anthony Blunt. 'The Sea' (Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2005) is the memoir of an art historian returning to the site of a traumatic childhood holiday.
Banville’s latest novel is 'The Infinities' (2009).
‘A character in John Banville's new novel is compared to an over-cleaned painting, ”brilliant and faded at the same time”. That's not a remark that could apply to the book itself, whose brushwork is luminous.’
Adam Mars-Jones, The Observer
Writers in the Gallery
In a new series of free evening talks, leading writers are invited to the National Gallery to give their personal response to a painting of
their choice.
Talks take place during Friday Lates in front of the writer's chosen painting. Speakers so far have included Russell Celyn Jones, Geoff Dyer, Philip Hensher, Toby Litt, Michèle Roberts and Marina Warner.
For more information on the Writers in the Gallery series, please contact nicola.freeman@ng-london.org.uk
