Donatello, Renaissance sculpture, Judith, Holofernes, David, Goliath, the Medici, and a whole lot of terrible art history guesses.
This week on We Like Art, Tommy Mavra and Manny dive into the world of Donatello — one of the major artists of the Italian Renaissance — with comedian Greg Williams Jr. joining the chaos.
What starts as a serious attempt to learn about Renaissance art quickly turns into a comedy breakdown of Donatello's sculptures, biblical stories, Renaissance nudity, bronze statues, David and Goliath, Judith and Holofernes, the Medici family, Michelangelo, and the eternal question: why did Renaissance artists keep making so many naked dudes? And Who was the Kanye West of the Renaissance?
We look at Donatello's artwork and try to figure out what we're actually looking at before the history lesson catches up with us. Along the way, we compare Donatello's David to Michelangelo's famous David, talk about the first freestanding nude statue produced since antiquity, and discover just how much chaos can be found in Renaissance art history.
If you like art history, Renaissance art, funny podcasts, stand-up comedy, weird historical facts, museum conversations, or watching comedians attempt to understand famous works of art, you're in the right place.
This is We Like Art — the comedy podcast about art history where we look at famous artwork, ask dumb questions, learn something occasionally, and try very hard to like art.
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Timestamps:
0:00 — Donatello or Donato? We already have a problem
2:00 — Welcome to We Like Art
3:10 — Comedian Greg Williams Jr. joins the show
3:44 — Donatello's possible self-portrait
3:56 — The "Miracle of the She Donkey"
7:43 — What are we looking at next?
8:37 — First look at Judith and Holofernes
9:35 — Is it Joan of Arc, the Virgin Mary, or something else?
13:18 — Judith, Goliath, David... we're getting confused
16:35 — The Judith reveal
16:56 — The Medici and Renaissance art
17:22 — Judith and the assassination of Holofernes
17:45 — Donatello's bronze sculpture and the missing gold
20:24 — Why bronze looks so good
22:00 — Time for the next artwork
22:22 — Donatello's childhood and Florence
24:12 — Donatello's teenage criminal record
25:17 — Filippo Brunelleschi: the Kanye West of the Renaissance?
29:56 — Another Donatello sculpture enters the chat
32:41 — Is that Judith again?
35:01 — David and Goliath reveal
35:27 — David, King Saul and the biblical backstory
36:03 — Donatello did David before Michelangelo
37:25 — How tall was Goliath?
39:50 — Donatello's David vs. Michelangelo's David
45:52 — What horrifying sculpture are we looking at next?
46:27 — Another mystery Renaissance figure
47:25 — Is it David again?
51:14 — Commercial break / We Like Art gets weird
52:06 — The world's greatest dinosaur art commercial
55:14 — One more sassy boy with a sword
55:23 — Wait... another David?
56:05 — Donatello's famous bronze David
56:17 — The first freestanding nude statue since antiquity
57:04 — David's extremely questionable behavior
58:02 — Donatello's David and the Medici
58:42 — The finale
58:50 — David with a boner
1:00:00 — Ranking the Ninja Turtle artists
1:03:32 — What kind of art do we actually like?
1:09:24 — Calling all art historians
1:14:48 — Subscribe to We Like Art
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guest:
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Head Historian:
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