Tearing a strip off the great Canaletto

There’s only a week left to see the Canaletto exhibition from the Royal Collection of Queen Elizabeth II at the National Gallery. But here’s the thing – make sure you enter the gallery from Clare Street, not Merrion Square, otherwise you’ll miss the spectacular Canaletto staircase.

Executed by Dublin design agency Design Works, the first full-scale use of an image on the stairs was for Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting in ...