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Episode 10956
The man who painted the serene goddess on the seashell ended his life making panicked, deliberately distorted art, then vanished from history for thr…
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Renoir: From Porcelain Factory to the Louvre, Painting Through Pain
Episode 10955
In the spring of 1871, revolutionaries during the Paris Commune nearly drowned a thirty-year-old painter sketching by the Seine, until their leader r…
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René Magritte: Trauma, Ad Work, Forgery, and the Treachery of Images
Episode 10954
The man behind the floating apples and bowler hats paid for groceries after World War II by forging Picassos and counterfeiting banknotes. This deep …
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Remedios Varo: The Exile Who Painted Science as Alchemy
Episode 10953
Named Remedios, meaning remedy, to heal her parents' grief over a dead sister, and later shaving five years off her own age to fit a male-dominated a…
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Rembrandt's Night Watch: Trimmed, Slashed, Hidden, and Rebuilt by AI
Episode 10952
Its name says night, but Rembrandt's 1642 masterpiece actually depicts a militia company stepping out in broad daylight. This episode treats The Nigh…
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The Winged Victory of Samothrace: A 150-Year Archaeological Puzzle
Episode 10951
At the top of the Louvre's Daru staircase stands an 18-foot winged goddess braced against an invisible wind on the prow of a stone warship. It looks …
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Raphael: The Renaissance CEO Who Made Genius Look Effortless
Episode 10950
Leonardo left commissions unfinished and Michelangelo tortured himself on a scaffold, but the third member of the Renaissance big three shattered the…
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Piero Manzoni: Artist's Breath, Tin Cans, and the Illusion of Value
Episode 10949
When Piero Manzoni died of a heart attack in his Milan studio in February 1963 at age 29, fellow artist Ben Vautier signed the death certificate, dec…
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Paul Cézanne: The Mocked Hermit Who Became Modern Art's Grandfather
Episode 10948
Critics compared Paul Cézanne's brushwork to a construction worker slopping wet cement with a trowel, and visitors to the 1874 Impressionist exhibiti…
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Norman Rockwell: Behind the Americana, Depression and Civil Rights
Episode 10947
Rejected by the Navy for being eight pounds underweight, a 20-year-old Norman Rockwell binged on bananas and donuts overnight, passed the scale the n…
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