In this six-minute clip from our 2024 conference, SAT Trustee Julia Cleave draws a line between The Winter’s Tale, The Rape of Lucrece, and Venus & Adonis and the works of Titian and Giulio Romano — painters whose influence on the canon is hard to explain away. Many have tried. The question of how the man from Stratford might have encountered this art pushes Stratfordian into contortions, which Julia documents with appropriate good humour. Enjoy!
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