Podcast: Jonathan Yeo discusses Giovanni Battista Moroni
Podcast: Jonathan Yeo discusses Giovanni Battista Moroni
By the RA Podcast Team
Published 9 December 2014
As part of a series of events surrounding the exhibition of works by Giovanni Battista Moroni, contemporary portrait painter Jonathan Yeo talks to the RA’s Tim Marlow about the portraits of the Renaissance artist.
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Jonathan Yeo is a technically accomplished and self-taught portrait painter, with subjects including Sienna Miller and Malala Yousafzai. In this talk, he discusses Moroni’s use of psychological realism and his own experiences of commissioned portraits, in particular what it was like to paint Tony Blair.
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Giovanni Battista Moroni is in The Sackler Wing of Burlington House until 25 January 2015.