Constable's Skies - A talk by Professor John Thornes

Stuart Bowditch Podcasts

Constable's Skies - A talk by Professor John Thornes at Boat House Gallery, National Trust, Flatford on 6th March 2018. Professor John Thornes, a professional academic meteorologist, discusses the sky in John Constable’s paintings. To John Constable the sky was "the keynote", the "standard of scale" and the "chief organ of sentiment" in landscape painting but how much meteorology did Constable understand? John Thornes, a professional academic meteorologist, discusses why the sky plays such an important part in Constable's most famous representation of British landscape, The Hay Wain. https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/flatford/features/constables-skies---a-talk-by-john-thornes Recorded by Stuart Bowditch.