I went to the Barocci exhibition at the National Gallery. He is an exquisite sixteenth-century painter in portraiture and religious scenes. The exhibition was almost empty, the crowds go for the big names. Earlier in the week I went to Pompeii at the British Museum and Manet at the Royal Academy and we couldn’t move.

Barochi worked notoriously slowly taking years on a picture. Doing various studies of form and bodily movement and faces to make the final result.

He hardly ever left Urbino, living quietly and long. Every figure is a dramatic masterpiece.

But sadly there were no pictures of these Easter scenes or they were not here.

“They were still talking about all this when Jesus himself stood among them.” (Luke 24:35-48)