Much Ado?

Visitors entering the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Leonard Rotunda immediately encounter the small portrait of an auburn-haired, blue-eyed and somewhat mischievous-looking young man that stands alone in the middle of the room. Above, but actually on the wall behind, is the simple question – ‘Shakespeare?’ – thus compelling the viewer to join in the controversy unleashed by the first public showing of the Sanders Portrait, alleged to be of the poet-playwright himself.