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The Seasons
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Length:
39 minutes
Released:
Apr 8, 2015
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Podcast episode
Description
Spring has finally sprung in New York City, so we decided to spend an episode discussing how artists have represented the seasons , using four very different examples: the medieval cathedral at Amiens, 16th-century Netherlandish artist Pieter Bruegel's The Harvesters, François Boucher's series Rococo tour de force called The Four Seasons, and Wassily Kandinsky's abstract quartet of paintings on the same subject.
Released:
Apr 8, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (34)
The Parthenon Marbles: At the beginning of the 19th century, the Parthenon (a temple atop the Acropolis in Athens that was constructed in the 5th century BCE) had fallen into a state of ruin. From 1800 until 1812, Lord Elgin, who had been England's Ambassador to the Ottoman... by Art History Happy Hour