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Rachel Ruysch | Fruit and Insects
Season 9
Rachel Ruysch was an incredibly skilled Dutch painter in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. She was renowned for her still lives. The objects in…
2 years, 1 month ago
Diego Velazquez | Las Meninas
Season 9
Diego Velazques was one of the most significant painters of Spain's Golden Age in the 17th century. He was a master of both portraiture and genre pai…
2 years, 1 month ago
Faith Ringgold | Dancing at the Louvre
Season 9
Faith Ringgold is a contemporary American artist. She studied art education and started as a painter, but she is best known for her story quilts. She…
2 years, 1 month ago
Maria and Julian Martinez | Black on Black Pottery
Season 9
Maria Martinez belonged to the Tewa-speaking Pueblo people, known for their rich artistic heritage. Pottery-making was deeply rooted in Puebloan cult…
2 years, 1 month ago
Helen Frankenthaler | The Bay
Season 9
The Bay was painted in 1963 as Frankenthaler had refined her soak and stain process. While Mountains and Sea was made with diluted oil paints, The Ba…
2 years, 1 month ago
Thomas Jefferson | Monticello
Season 9
Thomas Jefferson may be a surprising person to find in an art history podcast, but the writer of the Declaration of Independence, third president of …
2 years, 1 month ago
Jean-Michel Basquiat | Horn Players
Season 9
Jean-Michel Basquiat has created some of the most highly valued American paintings ever to go on auction. Basquiat sought to remake art history in hi…
2 years, 1 month ago
JMW Turner | The Slave Ship
Season 9
Turner's painting of The Slave Ship from 1840 was originally titled "Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying" and the event that inspired this …
2 years, 1 month ago
Raphael | The School of Athens
Season 9
While Raphael sadly passed away just in his 30s his work has lived on for hundreds of years. Learn a bit about the great Renaissance painter and arch…
2 years, 1 month ago
Michelangelo | The Sistine Chapel Ceiling (mini)
Season 9
Michelangelo was considered to be one of the greatest examples of a Renaissance man. He is also one of the worst examples of personal hygiene. Learn …
2 years, 1 month ago