What Is a Painting?

By Jean

What do you see when you look at a painting? You see the subject and the style of the work but also the materials and technologies used to create it and the traces of everything that has happened to i... more

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The podcast currently has 28 episodes available.

What Is a Painting? episodes:

January 09, 2026 Episode 28 - The Tears of Trees
How did painters use natural resins to varnish their paintings?
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34min
October 10, 2025 Episode 27 - Higher Ground
How did 16th century Venetian painters vary their ground layers to create different effects?
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28min
July 25, 2025 Episode 26 - Particular Magic
How did Venetian painters of the 16th century use canvas supports and oil medium to create a new kind of painting?
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34min
June 10, 2025 Episode 25 - A Big Cloth
How have natural aqueous media been used over the centuries, including by one of the most famous artists of the 20th century?
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37min
April 24, 2025 Episode 24 - Reinforcements
What can be done to reinforce a degraded canvas support of a painting, and how can that change that painting's look?
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30min
February 03, 2025 Episode 23 - Glue and Blues
How does paint made from animal glue and different blue pigments work, look, and age?
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32min
November 24, 2024 Episode 22 - A Little Cloth
What is the canvas of a canvas painting, and why and how was it used?
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35min
September 20, 2024 Episode 21 - A Copy of a Copy: The Ghent Altarpiece, Part 4
What's the story of the painting of the Just Judges panel now on display in Ghent?
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35min
July 23, 2024 Episode 20 - A Missing Piece: The Ghent Altarpiece, Part 3
Where is the Just Judges panel of the Ghent Altarpiece?
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27min
May 29, 2024 Episode 19 - The Sum of Many Parts: The Ghent Altarpiece, Part 2
What happened to the Ghent Altarpiece between 1566 and 1934?
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35min

FAQs about What Is a Painting?:

How many episodes does What Is a Painting? have?

The podcast currently has 28 episodes available.

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