Dr Janina Ramirez - Art Detective

#71 - Turner and the Thames: Five Paintings - Featuring Sir David Attenborough

Fri, 06 Mar 2020 17:30:25 GMT

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#70 - The Shock of the Nude - Dame Professor Mary Beard

Mon, 10 Feb 2020 17:30:14 GMT

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#69 - Lost and Found: Raiders of the Lost Past

Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:24:38 GMT

This episode was recorded in September 2019 at Gloucester History Festival.Producer: Dan Morelle--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Instagram: https://instagram.com/DrJaninaRamirezTwitter: https://twitter.com/ArtDetectivePod Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrJaninaRamirez Facebook: https://facebook.com/DrJaninaRamirezFacebook Group: https://facebook.com/groups/ArtDetective --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Art Detective Patreon Supporterspatreon.com/ArtDetectiveAdam EllisAlexandra HancockAlistair ToddAmanda CookeAndrew CarrAndrew DarbyAndrew RobesonAndrew WestBecky HeadBernard FildesbrittaCatherine Rowley-WilliamsChantal SpaullChloeChris ChattertonChris DouglassChristine HalsallColin BeebyDavid EvansDavid ParkerFi CooperIldi PelikanJanice MillerJen_0_cydeJoanne Benjamin Dzho MckeownJordan M KileyJoseph MaleczekKeiran LancasterKevin CannellKevin Valdes ParraKirstyLesley Anne FiskMargaret SzedenitsMargy MayellMCMatzMeg JonesMichelle MosesNeil HolmesNicola CaponPaul Flattpaul mallinderPete BiggsQuoc VoRachel CavalierRoger LittleStephen LawrenceTammy MillerTanchira ArjinkitToryn PoolmanVanessa RowlandsVictoria MitchellWayne QuiggThank you everyone! For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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#68 - Drunk Art Detective - Dr Adam Rutherford

Fri, 28 Jun 2019 05:30:00 GMT

This episode was originally released in April 2019 to our lovely Patreon backers. Support Art Detective on Patreon now for loads of exclusive content and ad free shows.Producer: Dan Morelle--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Instagram: https://instagram.com/DrJaninaRamirezTwitter: https://twitter.com/ArtDetectivePod Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrJaninaRamirez Facebook: https://facebook.com/DrJaninaRamirezFacebook Group: https://facebook.com/groups/ArtDetective --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Art Detective Patreon Supporterspatreon.com/ArtDetectiveAlexandra YeelesAmanda CookeAndrew DarbyAndrew RobesonAndrew WestBecky HeadBernard FildesbrittaCarol AnneCatherine Rowley-WilliamsChloeChris ChattertonChris DouglassChristine HalsallColin BeebyDaniel Ramirez David EvansDavid ParkerFanni loves FufuFi CooperGeorge GreenIldi PelikanJames RandallJanet LeeJanice MillerJennyJoanne Benjamin Dzho MckeownJordan M KileyJoseph MaleczekKanidra McGillKeiran LancasterKevin CannellKevin Valdes ParraKirstyLesley Anne FiskMargaret SzedenitsMargy Mayell Mark StackMCMatzMeg JonesMichele OlenderMichelle MosesNeil HolmesNicola CaponPatricia McLeanPaul FlattPeglegpetePete BiggsPhilip CorlisQuoc VoRoger LittleStephen LawrenceStephen WensleyTammy MillerTanchira ArjinkitToryn PoolmanVanessa RowlandsVictoria MitchellWayne QuiggThank you everyone! For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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#67 - Rebecca Gonzales-Lauck - Olmec Art

Mon, 10 Jun 2019 13:42:50 GMT

The Olmecs were the earliest known major civilization in Mesoamerica following a progressive development in Soconusco. They lived in the tropical lowlands of south-central Mexico, in the present-day states of Veracruz and Tabasco.Producer: Dan Morelle--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Instagram: https://instagram.com/DrJaninaRamirezTwitter: https://twitter.com/ArtDetectivePod Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrJaninaRamirez Facebook: https://facebook.com/DrJaninaRamirezFacebook Group: https://facebook.com/groups/ArtDetective --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Art Detective Patreon Supporterspatreon.com/ArtDetectiveAlexandra YeelesAmanda CookeAndrew DarbyAndrew RobesonAndrew WestBecky HeadBernard FildesbrittaCarol AnneCatherine Rowley-WilliamsChloeChris ChattertonChris DouglassChristine HalsallColin BeebyDaniel Ramirez David EvansDavid ParkerFanni loves FufuFi CooperGeorge GreenIldi PelikanJames RandallJanet LeeJanice MillerJennyJoanne Benjamin Dzho MckeownJoseph MaleczekKanidra McGillKeiran LancasterKevin CannellKevin Valdes ParraKirstyKyle BergeronLesley Anne FiskMargaret SzedenitsMargy Mayell Mark StackMCMatzMeg JonesMichele OlenderMichelle MosesNeil HolmesNicola CaponPatricia McLeanPaul FlattPeglegpetePete BiggsPhilip CorlisQuoc VoRoger LittleStephen LawrenceStephen WensleyTammy MillerTanchira ArjinkitToryn PoolmanVanessa RowlandsVictoria MitchellWayne QuiggThank you everyone! For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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#66 - Professor Dame Mary Beard - Praxiteles' Aphrodite of Knidos

Sun, 19 May 2019 18:31:56 GMT

Dame Mary Beard, DBE, FSA, FBA is Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of multiple books, including Confronting the Classics, and most recently, the manifesto, Women & Power. Dame Mary is a respected blogger and television personality. She is Classics editor of the Times Literary Supplement and a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books.Producer: Dan Morelle--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Instagram: https://instagram.com/DrJaninaRamirezTwitter: https://twitter.com/ArtDetectivePod Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrJaninaRamirez Facebook: https://facebook.com/DrJaninaRamirezFacebook Group: https://facebook.com/groups/ArtDetective --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Art Detective Patreon Supporterspatreon.com/ArtDetectiveAlexandra YeelesAmanda CookeAndrew DarbyAndrew RobesonAndrew WestBecky HeadBernard FildesbrittaCarol AnneCatherine Rowley-WilliamsChloeChris ChattertonChris DouglassChristine HalsallColin BeebyDaniel Ramirez David EvansDavid ParkerFanni loves FufuFi CooperGeorge GreenIldi PelikanJames RandallJanet LeeJanice MillerJennyJoanne Benjamin Dzho MckeownJoseph MaleczekKanidra McGillKeiran LancasterKevin CannellKevin Valdes ParraKirstyLesley Anne FiskMargaret SzedenitsMargy Mayell Mark StackMCMatzMeg JonesMichele OlenderMichelle MosesNeil HolmesNicola CaponPatricia McLeanPaul FlattPeglegpetePete BiggsPhilip CorlisQuoc VoRoger LittleStephen LawrenceStephen WensleyTammy MillerTanchira ArjinkitToryn PoolmanVanessa RowlandsVictoria MitchellWayne QuiggThank you everyone! For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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#65 - Neil Gaiman on The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke by Richard Dadd

Tue, 14 May 2019 11:38:32 GMT

This episode originally aired in 2017.Neil Gaiman is an author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre, and films. His notable works include the comic book series The Sandman and novels Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book. He has won numerous awards, including the Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker awards, as well as the Newbery and Carnegie medals. He is the first author to win both the Newbery and the Carnegie medals for the same work, The Graveyard Book. In 2013, The Ocean at the End of the Lane was voted Book of the Year in the British National Book Awards.Richard Dadd (1 August 1817 – 7 January 1886) was an English painter of the Victorian era, noted for his depictions of fairies and other supernatural subjects, Orientalist scenes, and enigmatic genre scenes, rendered with obsessively minuscule detail. Most of the works for which he is best known were created while he was a patient in psychiatric hospitals.Click here to view the painting discussed in this episode.Producer: Dan Morelle For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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#64 Staffordshire Hoard Helmet

Tue, 02 Apr 2019 06:07:40 GMT

With Pieta Greaves and Dr Jenni Butterworth. The Staffordshire Hoard is the largest collection of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver ever discovered. Heavily damaged before it was buried, the 7th century treasure contains more than 4,000 precious fragments, approximately a third of which are now known to come from a single, very high-status helmet. From 2014 to 2017, the helmet was studied as part of the major research project on the treasure funded by Historic England and the museums which care for the collection. This extensive research enabled experts to identify the fragments which belonged to the helmet, believed to have been made around AD 600-650.Helmets of this period are incredibly rare - there are only five other Anglo-Saxon helmets known. The detail and bold crested design means the Staffordshire Helmet is likely to have had an important owner.It will never be possible to reassemble the original physically. Instead, the project explored how the original may have been made and what it looked like, enabling archaeologists to understand its construction better and test theories about its structure and assembly.The reconstructions were created over an 18-month period by a team of specialist makers bringing together ancient craft techniques and cutting-edge technology.View photos of the Hoard Helmet here.Producer: Dan Morelle-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Instagram: https://instagram.com/DrJaninaRamirezTwitter: https://twitter.com/ArtDetectivePod Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrJaninaRamirez Facebook: https://facebook.com/DrJaninaRamirezFacebook Group: https://facebook.com/groups/ArtDetective -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Art Detective Patreon Supporterspatreon.com/ArtDetectiveAmanda CookeAndrew RobesonAndrew WestBecky HeadBernard FildesbrittaCatherine Rowley-WilliamsChloe GuttridgeChris ChattertonChris DouglassColin BeebyDaniel Ramirez David ParkerFi CooperGeorge GreenIldi PelikanJanet LeeJennyJoanne Benjamin Dzho MckeownJoseph MaleczekKanidra McGillKeiran LancasterKevin CannellKevin Valdes ParraKirstyMargaret SzedenitsMargy Mayell Mark StackMCMatzMeg JonesMichele OlenderNeil HolmesNicola CaponNina RamirezPatricia McLeanPaul FlattPete BiggsPhilip CorlisQuoc VoRoger LittleStephen LawrenceTammy MillerTanchira ArjinkitVanessa RowlandsWayne Quigg For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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#63 Tracy Chevalier, Girl with a Pearl Earring

Sun, 10 Mar 2019 19:35:48 GMT

Since Tracy Chevalier’s 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' was published in 1999, it has sold more than 5 million copies, has been translated into 39 languages and was made into an Oscar-nominated film. On the 20th anniversary of this enduring modern classic, Dr Janina Ramirez joined Tracy Chevalier and the Victoria & Albert Museum to talk about Vermeer’s painting of the same name, and how it inspired her.View the slideshow referenced in this episode here.Producer: Dan Morelle-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Instagram: https://instagram.com/DrJaninaRamirezTwitter: https://twitter.com/ArtDetectivePod Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrJaninaRamirez Facebook: https://facebook.com/DrJaninaRamirezFacebook Group: https://facebook.com/groups/ArtDetective -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Art Detective Patreon Supporterspatreon.com/ArtDetectiveAmanda CookeAndrew RobesonBecky HeadBernard FildesCatherine Rowley-WilliamsChloe GuttridgeChris ChattertonChris DouglassColin BeebyDaniel Ramirez David ParkerFi CooperJanet LeeJoanne Benjamin Dzho MckeownJoseph MaleczekKanidra McGillKeiran LancasterKevin CannellKevin Valdes ParraMargaret SzedenitsMargy Mayell Mark StackMCMatzMeg JonesMichele OlenderNeil HolmesNicola CaponNina RamirezPatricia McLeanPaul FlattStephen LawrenceTammy MillerTanchira ArjinkitVanessa RowlandsWayne Quigg For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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Dr Alexa Frost, Archivist at Blenheim Palace

Fri, 01 Mar 2019 17:00:00 GMT

Exclusive interview with Dr Alexa Frost the Head Archivist at Blenheim Palace.Artwork discussed in this episode: Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough by Sir Godfrey Kneller (Unknown date, but author died in 1723)Tell all your friends, you can now support us on PATREON! Presented by: Dr Janina RamirezProducer: Dan Morelle--------Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ArtDetectiveInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/DrJaninaRamirez/Twitter: https://twitter.com/ArtDetectivePodTwitter: https://twitter.com/DrJaninaRamirez Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrJaninaRamirezFacebook Group (Patreon Backers Only): https://www.facebook.com/groups/ArtDetective/ For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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Ophelia Field - The Favourite

Mon, 25 Feb 2019 06:30:00 GMT

WE'RE BAACK! Art Detective has landed with a brand new sparkling theme tune by award winning composer, Marc Canham and we're kicking off season 2 with an interview with Ophelia Field, author of The Favourite recorded at Blenheim Palace! Yes, we are spoiling you but we REALLY missed you! Tune in on Friday for Part 2 with an exclusive interview with the Head Archivist at Blenheim Palace.Artwork discussed in this episode:1. Large family portrait by John Closterman (1660-1711)2. Lady Churchill and Lady Fitzharris by Charles Jervas (1675-1739)Tell all your friends, you can now support us on PATREON! Presented by: Dr Janina RamirezProducer: Dan Morelle--------Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ArtDetectiveInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/DrJaninaRamirez/Twitter: https://twitter.com/ArtDetectivePodTwitter: https://twitter.com/DrJaninaRamirez Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrJaninaRamirezFacebook Group (Patreon Backers Only): https://www.facebook.com/groups/ArtDetective/ For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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Civilisations with David Olusoga

Tue, 10 Jul 2018 11:42:03 GMT

Dr Janina Ramirez talks to David Olusoga about Civilisations, how the programme was made, and how art reacts to social change.Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ArtDetectiveInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/DrJaninaRamirez/Twitter: https://twitter.com/ArtDetectivePodTwitter: https://twitter.com/DrJaninaRamirez Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrJaninaRamirezFacebook Group (Patreon Backers Only): https://www.facebook.com/groups/ArtDetective/Episode CreditsProducer - Natt TapleyAudio - Pete Dennis For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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Notre Dame du Taur with Kate Mosse

Sun, 01 Jul 2018 10:48:52 GMT

Kate Mosse is a historical novelist, known best for her trilogy of novels set in the Languedoc: Labyrinth, Sepulchre & Citadel. She has been fascinated by mediaeval churches since her childhood in Chichester, and here talks to Dr Janina Ramirez about Notre Dame du Tour in Toulouse. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ArtDetectiveInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/DrJaninaRamirez/Twitter: https://twitter.com/ArtDetectivePodTwitter: https://twitter.com/DrJaninaRamirez Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrJaninaRamirezFacebook Group (Patreon Backers Only): https://www.facebook.com/groups/ArtDetective/ Episode CreditsProducer - Natt TapleyAudio - Pete Dennis For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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Sarah Churchwell - The relationship between text and visual art

Mon, 18 Jun 2018 16:29:39 GMT

Dr Janina Ramirez talks to Professor Sarah Churchwell about e.e.cummings, Charles DeMuth, Grant Wood, and how words can represent visual art. Charles DeMuth - I Saw The Figure 5 In GoldGrant Wood - Daughters of Revolution----------Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ArtDetectiveInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/DrJaninaRamirez/Twitter: https://twitter.com/ArtDetectivePodTwitter: https://twitter.com/DrJaninaRamirez Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrJaninaRamirezFacebook Group (Patreon Backers Only): https://www.facebook.com/groups/ArtDetective/ Episode CreditsProducer - Natt TapleyAudio - Pete Dennis For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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The Art of the Ladybird Books - Joel Morris & Jason Hazeley

Sun, 10 Jun 2018 17:57:58 GMT

The team behind the Ladybird Books for Grown Ups, Joel Morris & Jason Hazeley, join Janina to discuss the art in the Ladybird books, nostalgic art, and Biblical plague.Episode CreditsProducer - Natt TapleyAudio - Pete Dennis--------Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ArtDetectiveInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/DrJaninaRamirez/Twitter: https://twitter.com/ArtDetectivePodTwitter: https://twitter.com/DrJaninaRamirez Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrJaninaRamirezFacebook Group (Patreon Backers Only): https://www.facebook.com/groups/ArtDetective/ For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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Guernica - Frank McDonough

Sun, 03 Jun 2018 18:38:22 GMT

Dr Janina Ramirez talks to Frank McDonough about Guernica, Picasso and modern art in modern wars. --------Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ArtDetectiveInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/DrJaninaRamirez/Twitter: https://twitter.com/ArtDetectivePodTwitter: https://twitter.com/DrJaninaRamirez Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrJaninaRamirezFacebook Group (Patreon Backers Only): https://www.facebook.com/groups/ArtDetective/ Episode Credits:Producer - Natt TapleyAudio - Pete Dennis For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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Plague with Rebecca Rideal

Mon, 28 May 2018 00:15:50 GMT

Dr Janina Ramirez discusses plague with Rebecca Rideal. Rebecca is a writer, former television producer and historian, specialising in the Stuart dynasty and seventeenth-century England. She now focuses on consulting and has worked with a number of heritage sites, TV companies and independent researchers to bring the intricacies of the past to a wider audience.Episode Credits:Producer - Natt TapleyAudio - Pete Dennis--------Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ArtDetectiveInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/DrJaninaRamirez/Twitter: https://twitter.com/ArtDetectivePodTwitter: https://twitter.com/DrJaninaRamirez Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrJaninaRamirezFacebook Group (Patreon Backers Only): https://www.facebook.com/groups/ArtDetective/ For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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Georges La Tour & Artemisia Gentileschi - Mark Gatiss

Sun, 20 May 2018 16:52:24 GMT

Janina sits down with the incomparable Mark Gatiss (Sherlock, Doctor Who, The League of Gentlemen, Game of Thrones) to talk about Groeg La Tour, Artemisia Gentileschi, murder, beheading, and who's the best at drawing blood.Episode Credits:Producer - Natt TapleyAudio - Pete Dennis--------Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ArtDetectiveInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/DrJaninaRamirez/Twitter: https://twitter.com/ArtDetectivePodTwitter: https://twitter.com/DrJaninaRamirez Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrJaninaRamirezFacebook Group (Patreon Backers Only): https://www.facebook.com/groups/ArtDetective/ For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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The Arnolfini Portrait - Amber Butchart

Tue, 13 Mar 2018 15:10:23 GMT

Art Detective Dr Janina Ramirez meets Amber Butchart at the National Gallery to discuss the Arnolfini Portrait.Episode Credits:Producer - Natt TapleyAudio - Pete Dennis--------Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ArtDetectiveInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/DrJaninaRamirez/Twitter: https://twitter.com/ArtDetectivePodTwitter: https://twitter.com/DrJaninaRamirez Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrJaninaRamirezFacebook Group (Patreon Backers Only): https://www.facebook.com/groups/ArtDetective/ For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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BIrkenhead Priory

Tue, 27 Feb 2018 15:58:34 GMT

Dr Janina Ramirez visits an architectural treasure, Birkenhead Priory, the oldest standing building on Merseyside. For more exclusive interviews and documentaries, subscribe to HistoryHit.Producer: Natt TapleyAudio: Pete DennisPicture credits: Adrian Little, James Deegan & Alison Bailey Smith For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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The Singh Twins at the Walker Gallery, Liverpool

Tue, 06 Feb 2018 01:52:02 GMT

Art Detective Dr Janina Ramirez talks to the Singh twins about the their work and their new exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. Episode CreditsProducer - Natt TapleyAudio - Pete Dennis--------Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ArtDetectiveInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/DrJaninaRamirez/Twitter: https://twitter.com/ArtDetectivePodTwitter: https://twitter.com/DrJaninaRamirez Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrJaninaRamirezFacebook Group (Patreon Backers Only): https://www.facebook.com/groups/ArtDetective/ For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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The History of Magic

Fri, 02 Feb 2018 00:56:32 GMT

Dr Janina Ramirez investigates the Harry Potter: A History of Magic exhibition at the British Library, which explores the historical context of the images used by J.K. Rowling in the Harry Potter novels.Episode CreditsProducer - Natt Tapley--------Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ArtDetectiveInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/DrJaninaRamirez/Twitter: https://twitter.com/ArtDetectivePodTwitter: https://twitter.com/DrJaninaRamirez Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrJaninaRamirezFacebook Group (Patreon Backers Only): https://www.facebook.com/groups/ArtDetective/ For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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Imagining The Divine with Jas Elsner

Tue, 16 Jan 2018 01:57:24 GMT

Dr Janina Ramirez goes behind the scenes at the Ashmolean's incredible new exhibition: Imagining The Divine, to talk to Jas Elsner. For more exclusive interviews and documentaries, subscribe to HistoryHit.TV. Click here to join today for free.Producer: Natt TapleyAudio: Pete Dennis For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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The Watts Gallery

Fri, 15 Dec 2017 00:46:37 GMT

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Trees with Christiana Payne

Sat, 09 Dec 2017 19:22:26 GMT

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Tony Robinson

Wed, 08 Nov 2017 06:30:00 GMT

Recorded live at Gloucester History Festival.

From playing turnip-loving Baldrick in Blackadder to Time Team and The Worst Jobs in History, Tony Robinson’s love of history has been at the heart of his career. Listen as he talks about his frank and funny memoir and lifts the lid on his life-long passion for history.

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Neil Gaiman on The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke by Richard Dadd

Tue, 31 Oct 2017 06:30:00 GMT

Neil Gaiman is an author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre, and films. His notable works include the comic book series The Sandman and novels Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book. He has won numerous awards, including the Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker awards, as well as the Newbery and Carnegie medals. He is the first author to win both the Newbery and the Carnegie medals for the same work, The Graveyard Book. In 2013, The Ocean at the End of the Lane was voted Book of the Year in the British National Book Awards.

Richard Dadd (1 August 1817 – 7 January 1886) was an English painter of the Victorian era, noted for his depictions of fairies and other supernatural subjects, Orientalist scenes, and enigmatic genre scenes, rendered with obsessively minuscule detail. Most of the works for which he is best known were created while he was a patient in psychiatric hospitals.

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India and Me - Anita Rani

Wed, 25 Oct 2017 05:30:00 GMT

Recorded live at the Gloucester History Festival. Anita Rani, Countryfile and Watchdog presenter, One Show reporter and star of Strictly Come Dancing, made a moving "Who Do You Think You Are?" exploring her Indian heritage. Anita talks to Gloucester History Festival president Dr Janina Ramirez about India’s partition - marking its 70th anniversary - and how her own family was powerfully affected by the seismic events of 1947.

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Philip Pullman

Mon, 02 Oct 2017 14:08:20 GMT

Philip Pullman CBE, FRSL is an English novelist. He is the author of several best-selling books, most notably the fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials and the fictionalised biography of Jesus, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ. In 2008, The Times named Pullman one of the "50 greatest British writers since 1945". In a 2004 poll for the BBC, Pullman was named the eleventh most influential person in British culture.

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Frank Cottrell-Boyce

Sun, 01 Oct 2017 18:40:20 GMT

Frank Cottrell-Boyce is an English screenwriter, novelist and occasional actor, known for his children's fiction and for his collaborations with film director Danny Boyle.

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Abbey Life Uncovered

Fri, 22 Sep 2017 17:48:47 GMT

Janina takes a break from the usual one on one interview to share a talk she recently gave at the Gloucester History Festival where she serves as President. To celebrate the 900th anniversary of Cirencester’s Abbey of St Mary's Janina asks what was life really like at a Medieval Abbey? How did the monks live? What did they eat? How did they help the townsfolk? Janina lifts the lid on monastic life to show a reality rather different from what we often think.

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Emma Hamilton by George Romney, with Kate Williams

Thu, 14 Sep 2017 07:44:00 GMT

Kate Williams @KateWilliamsme is Professor of History at the University of Reading, is an author, historian and television presenter.George Romney (26 December 1734 – 15 November 1802) was an English portrait painter. He was the most fashionable artist of his day, painting many leading society figures – including his artistic muse, Emma Hamilton, mistress of Lord Nelson. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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Victoria & Abdul - Shrabani Basu

Wed, 16 Aug 2017 05:45:00 GMT

Shrabani Basu is a journalist and historian. She is the author of For King and Another Country: Indian Soldiers on the Western Front 1914-18, Victoria & Abdul: The Story of the Queen’s Closest Confidant, Spy Princess: The Life of Noor Inayat Khan and Curry: The Story of Britain’s Favourite Dish. She is also the founder and chair of the Noor Inayat Khan Memorial Trust.

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Talking Art & Science with Professor Alice Roberts - Live at Latitude Festival 2017

Wed, 09 Aug 2017 05:50:00 GMT

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The Treasures of St. Cuthbert

Wed, 02 Aug 2017 10:40:41 GMT

The Treasures of St Cuthbert have been a focus for prayer and veneration by Christians for centuries. They include his original coffin and his gold and garnet pectoral cross, as well as the portable altar and comb which were placed in his coffin when he was buried. Later, precious silk textiles were also placed in his coffin. Together, these treasures represent some of the most significant surviving Anglo-Saxon artefacts in the UK.

The Treasures of St Cuthbert are on permanent display in the Great Kitchen as part of Open Treasure, a world-class exhibition experience at the heart of Durham Cathedral's complex of medieval monastic buildings.

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Enlightened Princesses - Joanna Marschner

Wed, 26 Jul 2017 05:30:00 GMT

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The Fight Between Carnival and Lent by Pieter Bruegel the Elder - with Johnathan Healy

Wed, 19 Jul 2017 13:22:28 GMT

The Fight Between Carnival and Lent is an oil-on-panel work painted by Pieter Bruegel the Elder in 1559. This painting depicts a common festival of the period, as celebrated in the Southern Netherlands. It presents the contrast between two sides of contemporary life, as can be seen by the appearance of the inn on the left side - for enjoyment, and the church on the right side - for religious observance.

The busy scene depicts well-behaved children near the church and a beer drinking scene near the inn. At the centre is a well, showing the coming together of different parts of the community, and other scenes show a fish stall and two competing floats.

Jonathan Healey is Associate Professor in Social Historyat Kellogg College at University of Oxford.

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Codex Aureus - Kate Wiles

Wed, 12 Jul 2017 16:07:44 GMT

The Stockholm Codex Aureus is a Gospel book written in the mid-eighth century in Southumbria, probably in Canterbury, whose decoration combines Insular and Italian elements. Southumbria produced a number of important illuminated manuscripts during the eighth and early ninth centuries, including the Vespasian Psalter, the Stockholm Codex Aureus, three Mercian prayer books, the Tiberius Bede and the Royal Bible.

Kate Wiles is a Medievalist, linguist, and Senior Editor History Today.

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La Belle Iseul by William Morris, with Dr Emma Wells

Wed, 28 Jun 2017 19:30:47 GMT

William Morris was an English textile designer, poet, novelist, translator, and socialist activist. Associated with the British Arts and Crafts Movement, he was a major contributor to the revival of traditional British textile arts and methods of production. His literary contributions helped to establish the modern fantasy genre, while he played a significant role in propagating the early socialist movement in Britain.View this episode's image here.Subscribe, rate and review on iTunes and follow Janina on Twitter. Follow History Hit on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.Please share this episode on acast.com/privacy

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The Artist's Family by Hans Holbein the Younger, with Jeanne Nuechterlein

Fri, 23 Jun 2017 22:01:00 GMT

Hans Holbein the Younger (c. 1497) – between 7 October and 29 November 1543) was a German and Swiss artist and printmaker who worked in a Northern Renaissance style. He is best known as one of the greatest portraitists of the 16th century. He also produced religious art, satire and Reformation propaganda, and made a significant contribution to the history of book design. He is called "the Younger" to distinguish him from his father, Hans Holbein the Elder, an accomplished painter of the Late Gothic school.

Dr Jeanne Nuechterlein has taught at York since October 2000. Her work centres on northern European art, primarily Germany and the Low Countries in the 15th and 16th centuries and its receptions in the 19th and 20th centuries, with further interests extending out to related geographical areas and periods. Her teaching and research investigates religious and secular imagery in the late medieval and early modern periods, particularly the cultural role of art for its makers, patrons and viewers. She is... For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo - with Patrick Doorly

Wed, 14 Jun 2017 07:22:32 GMT

The Creation of Adam is a fresco painting by Michelangelo, which forms part of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, painted c. 1508–1512. It illustrates the Biblical creation narrative from the Book of Genesis in which God breathes life into Adam, the first man. The fresco is part of a complex iconographic scheme and is chronologically the fourth in the series of panels depicting episodes from Genesis.

Patrick Doorly is an art historian specialising in Renaissance Italy. He divides his time between writing and teaching art history in the Department for Continuing Education, Oxford University. The Truth about Art: Reclaiming quality traces the multiple meanings of art back to their historical roots, and equips the reader to choose between them.

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Valois Tapestries and Catherine de Medici - with Stephanie Merritt

Wed, 07 Jun 2017 05:39:00 GMT

The Valois Tapestries are a series of eight tapestries depicting festivities or 'magnificences' at the Court of France in the second half of the 16th century. The tapestries were worked in the Spanish Netherlands, probably in Brussels or Antwerp, shortly after 1580.

Stephanie Merrit @thestephmerritt is an English critic and feature writer who has contributed to various publications including The Times, The Daily Telegraph, the New Statesman, New Humanist and Die Welt. She was Deputy Literary Editor of The Observer from 1998 to 2005 and currently writes for The Observer and The Guardian, in addition to writing novels.

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Bayeux Tapestry - with Greg Jenner

Wed, 31 May 2017 12:40:02 GMT

Greg Jenner is the historical consultant to Horrible Histories and is the author of A Million Years in a Day: A Curious History of Everyday Life.

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Bayeux Tapestry - with Joe Whitlock Blundell

Wed, 24 May 2017 10:11:00 GMT

The Bayeux Tapestry is an embroidered cloth nearly 70 metres (230 ft) long and 50 centimetres (20 in) tall, which depicts the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England concerning William, Duke of Normandy, and Harold, Earl of Wessex, later King of England, and culminating in the Battle of Hastings.

Joe Whitlock Blundell has been Design and Production Director of The Folio Society for over 20 years, responsible for all aspects of the books’ appearance: typographic design, art direction, choice of materials, and manufacturing quality. In this capacity he has seen well over 1,000 different titles into print. He is also a photographer with a number of books and one-man exhibitions to his name.

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The Kiss - Gustav Klimt

Wed, 17 May 2017 14:05:39 GMT

The Kiss was painted by the Austrian Symbolist painter Gustav Klimt between 1907 and 1908, the highpoint of his "Golden Period", when he painted a number of works in a similar gilded style. A perfect square, the canvas depicts a couple embracing, their bodies entwined in elaborate robes decorated in a style influenced by both linear constructs of the contemporary Art Nouveau style and the organic forms of the earlier Arts and Crafts movement. The work is composed of oil paint with applied layers of gold leaf, an aspect that gives its strikingly modern, yet evocative appearance. The painting is now in the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere museum in the Belvedere palace, Vienna, and is widely considered a masterpiece of the early modern period. It is a symbol of Vienna Jugendstil—Viennese Art Nouveau—and is considered Klimt's most popular work.

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Douris Psykter - Michael Scott

Wed, 10 May 2017 05:30:00 GMT

Michael Scott @drmichaelcscott is an Associate Professor in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick, author of several books on ancient Greek and Roman society, and has written and presented a range of documentaries for National Geographic, History Channel, ITV and the BBC.

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Miss Ashwanden in Cookham by Stanley Spencer - with Robin Ince

Wed, 03 May 2017 04:30:00 GMT

Sir Stanley Spencer (30 June 1891 – 14 December 1959) was an English painter.[Shortly after leaving the Slade School of Art, Spencer became well known for his paintings depicting Biblical scenes occurring as if in Cookham, the small village beside the River Thames where he was born and spent much of his life. Spencer referred to Cookham as "a village in Heaven" and in his biblical scenes, fellow-villagers are shown as their Gospel counterparts. Spencer was skilled at organising multi-figure compositions such as in his large paintings for the Sandham Memorial Chapel and the Shipbuilding on the Clyde series, the former being a World War One memorial while the latter was a commission for the War Artists' Advisory Committee during World War Two. As his career progressed Spencer often produced landscapes for commercial necessity and the intensity of his early visionary years diminished somewhat while elements of eccentricity came more to the fore. Although his compositions became more claustrophobic and his use... For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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Bonus Minisode: The Nightwatch by Rembrandt

Mon, 01 May 2017 05:01:00 GMT

Watch Janina's new 3-part series, An Art Lovers Guide starting on BBC Four from 1st May at 9pm. Watch on iPlayer here. With sumptuous palaces, exquisite artworks and stunning architecture, every great city offers a dizzying multitude of artistic highlights. In the series, Dr Janina Ramirez and Alastair Sooke take us on three cultural city breaks, hunting for off-the-beaten-track artistic treats - and finding new ways of enjoying some very famous sights.

The Night Watch, is a 1642 painting by Rembrandt van Rijn. It is in the collection of the Amsterdam Museum but is prominently displayed in the Rijksmuseum as the best known painting in its collection. The Night Watch is one of the most famous Dutch Golden Age paintings and is window 16 in the Canon of Amsterdam.

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Portrait of Martin Luther by Lucas Cranach the Elder - with Peter Stanford

Wed, 26 Apr 2017 04:30:00 GMT

Lucas Cranach the Elder (c. 1472 – 16 October 1553) was a German Renaissance painter and printmaker in woodcut and engraving. He was court painter to the Electors of Saxony for most of his career, and is known for his portraits, both of German princes and those of the leaders of the Protestant Reformation, whose cause he embraced with enthusiasm, becoming a close friend of Martin Luther. He also painted religious subjects, first in the Catholic tradition, and later trying to find new ways of conveying Lutheran religious concerns in art. He continued throughout his career to paint nude subjects drawn from mythology and religion. He had a large workshop and many works exist in different versions; his son Lucas Cranach the Younger, and others, continued to create versions of his father's works for decades after his death. Lucas Cranach the Elder has been considered the most successful German artist of his time.

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Yellow-Red-Blue by Wassily Kandinsky - with Marc Canham

Wed, 19 Apr 2017 16:10:00 GMT

Marc Canham @marc_canham is a composer whose work spans film, video games, and art. His compositions have been remixed and re-interpreted by UNKLE, Amon Tobin, and Diplo, and he has also worked with artists such as Nathan Johnson, Philip Glass, Iggy Pop, Paul Hartnoll, and Baaba Maal.

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky was a Russian painter and art theorist. He is credited with painting one of the first recognised purely abstract works. Born in Moscow, Kandinsky spent his childhood in Odessa, where he graduated at Grekov Odessa Art school. He enrolled at the University of Moscow, studying law and economics. Successful in his profession—he was offered a professorship (chair of Roman Law) at the University of Dorpat—Kandinsky began painting studies (life-drawing, sketching and anatomy) at the age of 30.

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Portrait of Sarah Bernhardt by Georges Clairin - with Christophe Leribault

Wed, 12 Apr 2017 06:42:54 GMT

Georges Jules Victor Clairin was a French Oriental painter and illustrator. He was influenced by oriental painting and Moorish architecture, and visited North Africa many times, in particular Morocco and Egypt. In Paris he led the life of a socialite, and befriended the glamorous actress Sarah Bernhardt, his friend for 50 years, and is today best known for his 'in costume' and informal intimate portraits of her.

Christophe Leribault is Head of the Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris

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The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp - with Adam Rutherford

Fri, 07 Apr 2017 05:30:00 GMT

Dr. Adam Rutherford is a science writer and broadcaster.On radio, he is the presenter of BBC Radio 4’s flagship science programme, Inside Science, as well as many documentaries, on the inheritance of intelligence, on MMR and autism, human evolution, astronomy and art, science and cinema, scientific fraud, and the evolution of sex. Adam's latest book is entitled A Brief History of Everyone who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes.

The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp is a 1632 oil painting on canvas by Rembrandt housed in the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague, the Netherlands. Dr. Nicolaes Tulp is pictured explaining the musculature of the arm to medical professionals. Some of the spectators are various doctors who paid commissions to be included in the painting.

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Equestrian Portrait of Charles I by Anthony van Dyck - with Bendor Grosvenor

Fri, 31 Mar 2017 05:30:00 GMT

Bendor Grosvenor is a British art dealer, art historian and writer. He is known for discovering a number of important lost works by Old Master artists, including Sir Peter Paul Rubens, Claude Lorrain and Peter Brueghel the Younger.

The Equestrian Portrait of Charles I (also known as Charles I on Horseback) is an oil painting on canvas by Anthony van Dyck, showing Charles I on horseback. Charles I had become King of Great Britain and Ireland in 1625 on the death of his father James I, and Van Dyck became the Charles' Principal Painter in Ordinary in 1632.

The portrait is thought to have been painted in about 1637–38, only a few years before the English Civil War broke out in 1642. It is one of many portraits of Charles by Van Dyck, including several equestrian portraits.

It is held by the National Gallery, London.

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Map of Constantinople & The Hereford Mappa Mundi - with Peter Frankopan

Wed, 22 Mar 2017 06:00:00 GMT

Dr. Peter Frankopan is a historian at Oxford University, where he is Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College, Oxford and Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research.

Peter's book The Silk Roads: A New History of the World, is an international bestseller, described by William Dalrymple as a 'historicalepic of dazzling range, ambition and achievement' (Observer)

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Tipu's Tiger - with Sona Datta

Fri, 17 Mar 2017 16:30:00 GMT

Sona Datta is an Art historian and Curator of South Asia at Peabody Essex Museum. Her most recent documentary series for the BBC, 'Treasures of the Indus', tells the story of the Indian sub-continent through the treasures that have shaped the modern Indian world.

Tipu's Tiger is an eighteenth-century automaton created for Tipu Sultan, the ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore in India. The carved and painted wood casing represents a tiger savaging a near life-size European man. Mechanisms inside the tiger and man's bodies make one hand of the man move, emit a wailing sound from his mouth and grunts from the tiger. In addition a flap on the side of the tiger folds down to reveal the keyboard of a small pipe organ with 18 notes.

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Fire! Fire! by Enrico Baj - with Rickie Martin

Wed, 15 Mar 2017 05:30:00 GMT

Ricky Martin is an artist, director, and animator. His is Creative Director at Aardman Animation and presents the popular children's' TV show 'Art Ninja' on CBBC.

Enrico Baj was an Italian artist and writer on art. Many of his works show an obsession with nuclear war. He created prints, sculptures but especially collage. He was close to the surrealist and dada movements, and was later associated with CoBrA. As an author he has been described as a leading promoter of the avant-garde. He worked with Umberto Eco among other collaborators. He had a long interest in the pseudo-philosophy 'pataphysics.

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The Cage Paintings by Gerhard Richter - with Phil Selway

Wed, 08 Mar 2017 08:01:00 GMT

Janina continues to blur the boundaries of Art talking with Phil Selway the drummer for legendary and genre-defying band, Radiohead. Together they peel back the layers of collaboration, performance, self-expression, music, play, and much more. Prepare to have your mind-blown. Again.

Gerhard Richter is a German visual artist. Richter has produced abstract as well as photorealistic paintings, and also photographs and glass pieces. His art follows the examples of Picasso and Jean Arp in undermining the concept of the artist's obligation to maintain a single cohesive style.

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No. 5, 1948 by Jackson Pollock - with Marcus du Sautoy

Wed, 01 Mar 2017 05:30:00 GMT

Marcus Peter Francis du Sautoy FRS OBE, is the Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science and a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford.

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The Franks Casket - with Tony Robinson

Wed, 22 Feb 2017 05:30:00 GMT

Sir Tony Robinson is an English actor, comedian, TV presenter and political activist. He is known for playing Baldrick in the BBC television series Blackadder and for hosting Channel 4 programmes such as Time Team and The Worst Jobs in History.

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Ely Cathedral - with Will Shank

Mon, 20 Feb 2017 16:57:46 GMT

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Jonathan Foyle

Wed, 15 Feb 2017 05:45:00 GMT

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The Cave Art Paintings of the Lascaux Cave - with Professor Alice Roberts

Wed, 08 Feb 2017 08:45:00 GMT

Alice Roberts is an anatomist, anthropologist and Professor of Public Engagement in Science at the University of Birmingham. She is also a broadcaster and has presented several landmark BBC series including The Incredible Human Journey, Origins of Us, Ice Age Giants and The Celts. She has also presented several Horizon programmes, and occasionally presents Costing The Earth on Radio 4. She has written seven popular science and archaeology books. Her book about embryology and evolution, The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being, was shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust Book Prize in 2015.View this episode's image here.

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Sutton Hoo Shoulder Clasp - with Jim Peters

Wed, 01 Feb 2017 05:01:00 GMT

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Minisode - Flaming June

Sun, 29 Jan 2017 21:34:55 GMT

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Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymous Bosch – with Waldemar Januszack

Wed, 25 Jan 2017 05:01:00 GMT

View this week's image here. Waldemar Januszczak is a British art critic and television documentary producer and presenter. Formerly the art critic of The Guardian, he took the same role at The Sunday Times in 1992, and has twice won the Critic of the Year award.

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Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci - with Martin Kemp

Wed, 18 Jan 2017 04:45:00 GMT

View this week's image here. Martin Kemp is Professor Emeritus of the History of Art; Honorary Fellow of Trinity College. Professor Kemp has published extensively on Leonardo, Renaissance art, and the links between art and science.

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Gin Lane by Hogarth - with Lars Tharp

Wed, 11 Jan 2017 05:29:00 GMT

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Early One Morning by Sir Anthony Caro – with Alistair Sooke

Wed, 04 Jan 2017 05:24:31 GMT

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The Fighting Temeraire by Turner – with Dan Snow

Wed, 28 Dec 2016 05:30:20 GMT

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Theodora Mosaic, Ravenna – with Bettany Hughes

Wed, 21 Dec 2016 05:29:53 GMT

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Elizabeth I – Armada Portrait

Wed, 14 Dec 2016 05:05:54 GMT

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Introduction

Mon, 05 Dec 2016 12:20:12 GMT

Art is the truest expression of the workings of the mind, free from learnt language. More than that, it is the visual expression of culture, politics, society, religion, emotion, zeitgeist, channeled through the brush, chisel, or hands of creative individuals. Understanding art allows us to understand history: to pin it with images, and pepper it with the faces, colours, drama and expression of its time.

This series is designed to give bite sized insights into the world of Art History, bringing one image to life across 20 minutes through discussion with world experts, close visual analysis, and high-resolution images that will accompany the series. History is never far from view, so each image will be expanded to sit within the cultural and historical context that produced it.

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