Best Liked Picture in Britain
Boris Johnson, Tory MP and editor of the Spectator, stays in character and nominates William Hogarth’s A Rake’s Progress iii: ‘The Orgy’ as the greatest picture in Britain.
Listen to his explanation here [RealMedia]
For those of you who don’t know who Boris Johnson is, I set up a crash course about him last year.
See the other nominated pictures here. I like the Ucello a lot, for its attempt at perspective when that was still something new.
[x]#1341 fan vrijdag 5 augustus 2005 @ 18:02:52
