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Season 2, Ep. 8: Great Bookcase - William Burges

Season 1 Episode 28

Worked on by fourteen leading nineteenth century artists and taking 3 years to complete, the stunning ‘Great Bookcase’ is so much more than a piece o…

4 years, 8 months ago

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Season 2, Ep. 7: The Bridge at Argenteuil - Alfred Sisley

Season 1 Episode 27

This week Phil and Laura take a look at The Bridge at Argenteuil, painted in 1872 by Impressionist Alfred Sisley. A prolific artist who painted numer…

4 years, 9 months ago

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Season 2, Ep. 6: In The Loge - Mary Cassatt

Listen in this week to find out more about Mary Cassatt - a key figure in the impressionist movement who has been frequently overlooked - and her 187…

4 years, 9 months ago

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Season 2, Ep. 5: The Gleaners - John Constable

Season 1 Episode 25

In this episode, Phil and Laura look at one of the greatest of all British artists: John Constable. He is known best for his Suffolk (eastern England…

4 years, 9 months ago

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Season 2, Ep. 4: Dept Store Game - Utagawa Kunimasa IV

Season 1 Episode 24

An absolute treat this week – from the 5-star exhibition The Art of Tokyo at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, UK. Is it a painting or is it a board ga…

4 years, 10 months ago

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Season 2, Ep. 3: ‘Four Girls on a Bridge’ - Edvard Munch (1905)

Season 1 Episode 23

This painting by Edvard Munch depicts girls standing on a bridge wearing bright clothes and with a bright blue sky overhead, perhaps suggesting that …

4 years, 10 months ago

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Season 2, Ep. 2: Portrait of John Ruskin - John Everett Millais

This portrait of Victorian art critic John Ruskin was painted by Millais in 1853-4. Ruskin was an early advocate of the pre-Raphaelites and part of t…

4 years, 10 months ago

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Season 2, Ep. 1: Going to the Match - L.S. Lowry

In this famous scene, painted by Lowry in 1928, we see countless fans hurrying towards the turnstiles to see a football match. As with so many of his…

4 years, 10 months ago

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Season 1, Ep. 20: The Railway - Edouard Manet

Season 1 Episode 20

Painted in 1873, The Railway is the last painting by Manet of his favourite model, fellow painter Victorine Meurent. We see her sitting with a sleepi…

4 years, 10 months ago

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Season 1, Ep. 19: Triumphs of Caesar - Andrea Mantegna

Season 1 Episode 19

In this episode of the Painting of The Week Podcast, Laura and Phil take a look at 'Triumphs of Caesar' by Andrea Mantegna

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4 years, 11 months ago

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