A Pietro Annigoni Tableau in The Empty Hearse:
Steve Lawes’s Painterly Cinematography[I sooo called this here and here. Source of Lawes quote here.]
Mycroft’s office is a Pietro Annigoni tableau.
- Annigoni eschewed modern art for a Renaissance-inspired realist style.
- He reached international fame with his first portrait of Queen Elizabeth (right)— the one staring down His Royal Highness Queen Sherlock Holmes. Oh hey do I need to point out they’re wearing similar costumes of black, white and regal?
- And the lighting and color scheme of Mycroft’s office (bunker?) mimics Annigoni’s second portrait of the monarch.
- Is this style the “real” Mycroft— as opposed to his drab office where John visits him in TGG? Oh la la YIZ! We’re getting to know Mycroft in a spectacular way. In fact aside from the cute of Sherlock shaving the Johnstache with his razor wit /colossal ego, that’s the REAL headline here. MYCROFT! MYCROFT! MYCROFT!
- Lawes once lit a scene to mimic a Vermeer painting so expect to see more of this.
It’s late. I’ll let you tell me what story the frame is telling you.