About the video:

The great perfectionist: see how Federico Barocci's preparatory drawings and oil sketches reveal as much about the nature of the artist himself as they do about the subjects of his paintings.

Hear more from Carol Plazzotta, curator of the exhibition Barocci: Brilliance and Grace, and discover how this impressive draughtsman's deep obsession with mastering tone, form and harmony even to the adoption of some rather unusual painterly techniques.