A Long Look Podcast

Meet Vittore Carpaccio, a famous Renaissance artist you might never have heard of. He's the star of the National Gallery of Art's exhibition, "Vittore Carpaccio: Master Storyteller of Renaissance Venice" which introduces this Venetian favorite to us for the first time! In Season 7, we'll look at stories of lions, saints, puppies, and a reunited painting, and hidden Jesus!

SHOW NOTES

"A Long Look" theme is "Ascension" by Ron Gelinas

"Gabrieli Canzon per sonar primi toni a 8, Ch. 170." Performed by James Howard Young

https://musopen.org/music/43294-canzon-per-sonar-primi-toni-a-8-ch-170/

We're going old school in this Christmas episode as we look at "Madonna and Child" by Giotto di Bondone, a guy who got so famous he goes by one name, Giotto! Kind of like Cher!

We'll find out how he revolutionized religious art in Florence at the end of the Middle Ages. Like so many of the writers around him, he looked to the past in order to move forward. And you'll find out the lengths I go to for my listeners!

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SHOW NOTES

"A Long Look" theme is "Ascension" by Ron Gelinas https://youtu.be/jGEdNSNkZoo

Episode theme is "Angels We Have Heard on High" by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3368-angels-we-have-heard-on-high

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Artwork information "Distorting the Madonna in Medieval Art" (Smart History article)

Cecilia Frosini lecture (video)

Giotto information https://smarthistory.org/giotto-the-ognissanti-madonna/

https://www.theartstory.org/artist/giotto/

Arena Chapel frescoeshttps://smarthistory.org/giotto-arena-scrovegni-chapel-part-1-of-4/

Cimabué, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cimabue_-_The_Madonna_in_Majesty_(Maest%C3%A0)_-_WGA04932.jpg

"The Decameron" (Internet Archive link)

Well, it's fall, my favorite time of year! I decided to celebrate by pulling together three past episodes related to this beautiful season. We'll revisit a stunning view of the Hudson River by Jasper Cropsey and see how Charles Sheeler turned a country stove into a modern image. Last but not least is Alma Thomas and her exuberant "Autumn Drama."

So join me for this special expanded episode of "A Long Look!"

SHOW NOTES

"A Long Look" theme is "Ascension" by Ron Gelinas https://youtu.be/jGEdNSNkZoo

Quantum Jazz courtesy of Free Music Archive https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Quantum_Jazz

Cover image by Melk Hagelslag from Pixabay

Link to Hudson River episode show notes

Link to Doylestown episode show notes

Link to Autumn Drama episode show notes

Woman with a Sunflower looks like one of Mary Cassatt's charming domestic scenes. But when she painted this in 1905, times were changing and this is actually a bold statement of women's rights!

In this episode, art historian Nikki Georgopulos joins us to share the secret of the sunflower, and how her research led to the painting's original name being restored.

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"A Long Look" theme is "Ascension" by Ron Gelinas https://youtu.be/jGEdNSNkZoo

Episode theme is "Prelude no. 4 in F major" composed by Gabriel Fauré. Courtesy of musopen. org https://musopen.org/music/7934-9-preludes-op-103/

Closing theme is "Give the Ballot to the Mothers" courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways. https://folkways.si.edu/explore

Nikki Georgopolus blog post https://www.nga.gov/blog/cassatt-suffragist-symbolism.html

Well, I've wrapped up our virtual road trip! I hope you enjoyed exploring works at other fantastic museums around the country. They all have great online resources if you want to check do a deeper dive into their collections.

The show is mostly on hiatus for the summer, although I will be doing another extended episode in a few weeks, so stay tuned!

SHOW NOTES

"A Long Look" theme is "Ascension" by Ron Gelinas youtu.be/jGEdNSNkZoo

The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://metmuseum.org

The Art Institute of Chicago https://www.artic.edu

J. Paul Getty Museum https://www.getty.edu/museum

Minneapolis Institute of Art https://new.artsmia.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art https://www.clevelandart.org

This final episode of our virtual museum road trip takes us to the Cleveland Museum of Art to see the dreamy Vale of Kashmir by Robert S. Duncanson.

We'll find out how a self-taught American artist made it big and his connection to First Lady Dr. Jill Biden.

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SHOW NOTES

"A Long Look" theme is "Ascension" by Ron Gelinas https://youtu.be/jGEdNSNkZoo

Episode theme is "Nocturne in B flat minor, Op. 9 no. 1" composed by Frédéric Chopin. Performed by Olga Gurevich.

Courtesy of musopen.org https://musopen.org/music/108-nocturnes-op-9/

Vale of Kashmir image

Duncanson info

The Emergence of the African-American Artist: Robert S. Duncanson 1821-1872, Joseph D. Ketner, University of Missouri Press, 1994.

America's Forgotten Landscape Painter: Robert S. Duncansonhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/americas-forgotten-landscape-painter-robert-s-duncanson-112952174/

Inauguration Highlights Rainbow Painting by African American Artisthttps://americanart.si.edu/blog/inauguration-highlights-rainbow-painting-african-american-artist-duncanson

Robert S. Duncanson Charted New Paths for Black Artists in 19th-Century Americahttps://www.artnews.com/feature/robert-s-duncanson-landscape-painter-who-was-he-1234582541/

The Cleveland Museum of Art Acquisition Highlights 2014https://www.clevelandart.org/magazine/cleveland-art-2015-highlights/acquisition-highlights-2014

Lalla Rookh infohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lalla_Rookh

Taft muralshttps://www.taftmuseum.org/duncanson-murals

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Today's episode takes us to the Minneapolis Institute of Art for a long look at Claude Monet.

We'll find out how the morning light on a neighbor's haystacks inspired one of his most famous painting series and the hectic practice he developed to paint them!

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"A Long Look" theme is "Ascension" by Ron Gelinas https://youtu.be/jGEdNSNkZoo

Episode theme is "Sonatine - I. Modéré" by Maurice Ravel. Performed by Markus Staab. Courtesy of musopen.org https://musopen.org/music/4724-sonatine/

Haystacks (Monet series) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haystacks_(Monet_series)

Monet info Perry, Lilla Cabot. "Reminiscences Of Claude Monet From 1889 To 1909." The American Magazine of Art 18, no. 3 (1927): 119-26. Accessed May 12, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23931183.

Exploring Late Monet with Art Historian Kathryn Calley Galitz, Pac Pobric, Editor, Digital Department, 2018 https://www.metmuseum.org/blogs/collection-insights/2018/monet-conversation

Isabella d'Este knew a thing or two about bad luck. A philandering husband who was out of town most of the time, the loss of three children, and oh yeah, running the government of Mantua while protecting it from invading armies while hubby was away! But she also knew Fortune can swing both ways. Our next stop is the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, CA where we find out why this majorly influential Renaissance Woman may have been the one to hire Dosso Dossi to paint this mysterious scene.

SHOW NOTES "A Long Look" theme is "Ascension" by Ron Gelinas https://youtu.be/jGEdNSNkZoo

Episode theme is "Suite in F Major" composed by Michael Praetorius. Performed by Michel Rondeau. Courtesy of musopen.org https://musopen.org/music/43633-suite-in-f-major/

Artwork information https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/822/dosso-dossi-giovanni-di-niccolo-de-lutero-allegory-of-fortune-italian-about-1530/

A Recovered 'Fortune' : Renaissance Work Cost $1,000, Sold for $4 Million https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-04-29-ca-849-story.html

Dosso Dossi info https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/artists/1007/dosso-dossi-giovanni-di-niccolo-de-lutero-italian-ferrarese-about-1490-1542/

Dosso Dossi: Court Painter in Renaissance Ferrara (PDF) http://resources.metmuseum.org/resources/metpublications/pdf/

Isabella info

https://isabelladeste.web.unc.edu/profile-of-isabella-deste/

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/dinner_party/place_settings/isabella_d_este https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_d%27Este

"Fickle Fortune: Pinning Down Fortune in 16th Century Italy" by Megan Haddad (2019) Aleph, UCLA Undergraduate Research Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences, 16. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9kw3v8st

Frank Sinatra singing Luck Be a Lady Tonight https://youtu.be/X69P_Vce9vw

In today's episode, we travel to the Art Institute of Chicago for a long look at this iconic print by Japanese artist, Hokusai.

You might remember from the Van Gogh episode that when French artists discovered colorful Japanese woodblock prints like this, it started the enormously popular Japonisme trend and eventually led to Impressionism.

But influence went both ways. In today's episode, we'll find out how a lab accident in Berlin led to Hokusai showcasing this vivid Prussian blue 130 years later.

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SHOW NOTES "A Long Look" theme is "Ascension" by Ron Gelinas https://youtu.be/jGEdNSNkZoo

Episode theme is "La Mer - 3 - Dialogue du vent et de la mer" composed by Claude Debussy. Performed by the US Air Force Band https://musopen.org/music/14381-la-mer/#recordings Courtesy of musopen.org

Artwork information

https://www.artic.edu/articles/743/seeing-triple-the-great-wave-by-hokusai

Hokusai bio https://www.artic.edu/artists/31492/katsushika-hokusai

Ukiyo-e printing info

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=263hot9G8NA

https://risingsunprints.com/blogs/introduction-to-ukiyo-e/explained-the-traditional-process-of-japanese-woodblock-printing

Prussian blue story

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-21/prussian-blue-hokusai-great-wave-how-a-pigment-changed-the-world/8731732

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In today's A Long Look, we'll find out how German artist Albrecht Dürer pushed the limits of engraving by experimenting with tools used by armorers and goldsmiths. And we'll discover how his love of Italian art and fascination with the human body led to this work.

Plus, we'll find out the meaning of that menagerie of animals surrounding these two. You won't believe who the parrot might represent!

SHOW NOTES

"A Long Look" theme is "Ascension" by Ron Gelinas https://youtu.be/jGEdNSNkZoo

Episode theme is "Dowland Lachrimae, or Seven Tears - 5. Lachrimae coactae" composed by John Dowland. Performed by I Solipsisti, courtesy of musopen.org.

Artwork information https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/336222

Albrecht Dürer information https://www.britannica.com/biography/Albrecht-Dürer-German-artist#ref1949

The Print in the North: The Age of Albrecht Dürer and Lucas van Leyden: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 54, no. 4 (Spring, 1997) (PDF)

Gothic and Renaissance Art in Nuremberg, 1300–1550 (PDF)

One interpretation of the animals (Khan Academy)

Printmaking information How to Identify Prints / Edition 2 by Bamber Gascoigne

Engraving video (Metropolitan Museum)

Armor images and information https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/23944