There is something appealing about the idea of being able to inspect work more thoroughly than ever possible in art galleries or museums. The experience of viewing a painting becomes much more intimate and quiet. This especially when you consider the heaving, sweaty masses when you enter the major museums of the world.
The original painting is 95 x 85 cm (in the Uffizi) so you have to wonder how the immersive aspect of being in front of the image, and potentially overwhelmed by it, is compromised by a 20" screen?
We did visit the Uffizi but - as would often seem our luck - the applicable room was closed. That said, I did manage to sneak a glance at his Medusa though. I was also lucky enough to have a Caravaggio pretty much to myself - visited mid-week - at the Kunstmuseum in Bonn when a show toured there.
I would hope that those behind 'Bedroom Secrets' would consider doing the same with Van Gogh's 'The Bedroom'.
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