Luis Melendez: Master of the Spanish Still Life, Part 2: Mel�ndez's Working Method

July 2009, Backstory - Gretchen Hirschauer, associate curator, Italian and Spanish paintings, and Catherine Metzger, senior conservator of paintings, National Gallery of Art, Washington. Delights of the Spanish table are exquisitely depicted by Luis Mel�ndez�the greatest still-life painter of 18th-century Spain. In podcast produced on the occasion of the exhibition, Hirschauer talks to paintings conservator Catherine Metzger about their recent technical examination of Melendez's paintings, including some new discoveries.