Exploring Art History

Ideas Roadshow

Exploring Art History is a biweekly video podcast featuring seriously-entertaining conversations between Howard Burton and professional art historians. Each episode takes you on a captivating journey through the story of art across different times and cultures. The videos are enhanced with visuals throughout to illuminate the captivating mysteries, intriguing discoveries and compelling new interpretations that are under discussion. *For Howard's art essays, visit: https://ideasroadshow.substack.com/. * Details about Ideas Roadshow art films: https://ideasroadshow.com

Episodes

  1. Ep 4. MICHELANGELO: Contemporary Artistic Impact - A conversation with Bill Wallace, Part 2

    3 DAYS AGO

    Ep 4. MICHELANGELO: Contemporary Artistic Impact - A conversation with Bill Wallace, Part 2

    Renaissance artist Michelangelo was both influenced by, and strongly influenced, other great artists from his contemporary world. In this illustrated video podcast Michelangelo scholar Bill Wallace, Washington University in St. Louis, discusses his research on the artistic relationship between Michelangelo and the great Venetian master Titian and how we can use the power of imagination in combination with art historical knowledge to understand the artists' time. You'll also learn about the different colourists - Pontormo, da Volterra, Venusti - that Michelangelo worked with, his collaboration with Del Piombo, Titian's daughter Lavinia who was a great artist herself, Vasari's divergent descriptions of Michelangelo and Titian in his Lives of Artists and more. Host: Howard Burton Chapters: 0:00 Introduction 1:30 Michelangelo's The Fall and Titian's The Jealous Husband 8:20 Michelangelo's Rebellious Slave and Titian's St. Sebastian 9:58 The power of informed imagination to understand an artist's time 14:52 Documentary evidence on Michelangelo's encounters with Titian and his art 19:37 Michelangelo's use of influences to create radically original art 28:05 The effects of the collaboration between Michelangelo and Del Piombo 31:40 Colourist collaborators of Michelangelo: Pontormo, da Volterra, Venusti 37:45 Michelangelo's influences on Titian 39:44 Vasari's Lives of Artists and Titian's Judith and Holofernes 43:22 Titian's daughter and painter Lavinia and attribution 46:16 It's too bad Venetians never learned how to draw * For essays about art by Howard Burton, visit our Exploring Art History blog: https://ideasroadshow.substack.com/. Website: https://ideasroadshow.com/ The music in this podcast is licensed from Artlist. The music in this video is licensed from ArtList.

    53 min
  2. Ep. 3 MICHELANGELO: The Making of Art - A conversation with Bill Wallace, Part 1

    20 APR

    Ep. 3 MICHELANGELO: The Making of Art - A conversation with Bill Wallace, Part 1

    In this illustrated video podcast Michelangelo scholar Bill Wallace, Washington University in St. Louis, discusses fascinating and often surprising aspects of how Michelangelo created his masterpieces and the materials he used. Being an internationally recognized authority on Michelangelo, Bill Wallace is able to break down the many stereotypes that exist and provide us with a deep sense of Michelangelo's world and art. Find out about Michelangelo's inexplicable, genius ability to master different techniques and the methods he used to create his drawings, frescoes, sculptures, including his non finito or unfinished works, architectural designs and buildings plus the wide variety of challenges he faced and overcame. Host: author and filmmaker Howard Burton. CHAPTERS: 0:00 Introduction 1:28 From the Louvre to visits to Italy, Wallace's journey to become a Michelangelo expert 4:16 Breaking down stereotypes about Michelangelo 7:25 The difficulties of carving marble to explain Michelangelo's unfinished, non finito works  8:58 Unfinished, non finito art by Michelangelo and stereotypes created by scholarly literature 12:34 Visiting Michelangelo's quarry in Carrara and the story of his work in the quarries 19:23 Drawings made in companionship, his creative process and attribution 27:38 Frescoes: from spending a minor time in Ghirlandaio's to painting the Sistine ceiling 33:40 The aspiration to lift the labouring process of making sculptures into sublime art  40:21 God's Architect: Michelangelo and the complexity of building Saint Peter's Basilica 52:44 The function and misunderstandings about architectural models in the Renaissance 1:01:18 Michelangelo's difficulties and courage in dealing with design errors as a professional builder * For essays about art by Howard Burton, visit our Exploring Art History blog: https://ideasroadshow.substack.com/ * Website: https://ideasroadshow.com/ The music in this video is licensed from Artlist.

    1hr 5min
  3. Ep. 1. ALBRECHT DÜRER: Islamic themes in Dürer's prints - A conversation with Susan Dackerman, UCLA

    30 MAR

    Ep. 1. ALBRECHT DÜRER: Islamic themes in Dürer's prints - A conversation with Susan Dackerman, UCLA

    In this illustrated video podcast UCLA print specialist Susan Dackerman and host Howard Burton discuss Dürer's most enigmatic print projects - The Sea Monster, The Knots, and Landscape with Cannon - which all feature Muslim subjects, figures and artifacts. Rather than looking through the mirror of conflict and war, Dackerman places those artworks within a broader historical context that reflects Dürer's astute knowledge of the productive collaborations between Christendom and Islam, from the artistic and commercial to the ideological and political. Dackerman's research is captured in her compelling book Dürer's Knots (2024, Princeton University Press). Chapters: 0:00 Introduction 1:28 Dürer's depictions of Muslim figures and decorations in his prints. 4:28 The Ottoman siege of Constantinople and Gutenberg’s printing. 7:26 The Holy Roman Empire, the Ottoman Empire, the Mamluk Sultanate. 9:04 Exchanges between 15th-16th century Venice and Nuremberg. 11:50 Looking at a broader historical context during war and conflict. 17:31 Dürer's The Sea Monster and the Queen of Cyprus Caterina Cornaro. 32:07 Unraveling Dürer''s Knots.37:58 A comparison between Dürer's knots and Leonardo da Vinci's knots. 41:44 A re-interpretation of Dürer's Large Landscape with Canon. 57:37 The reception of Dackerman's new readings of Dürer's prints. * For essays about art by Howard Burton, visit our Exploring Art History blog: https://ideasroadshow.substack.com/ * Website: https://ideasroadshow.com/ The music in this video is licensed from Artlist.

    1hr 7min

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Exploring Art History is a biweekly video podcast featuring seriously-entertaining conversations between Howard Burton and professional art historians. Each episode takes you on a captivating journey through the story of art across different times and cultures. The videos are enhanced with visuals throughout to illuminate the captivating mysteries, intriguing discoveries and compelling new interpretations that are under discussion. *For Howard's art essays, visit: https://ideasroadshow.substack.com/. * Details about Ideas Roadshow art films: https://ideasroadshow.com

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