Dr Janina Ramirez - Art Detective
74 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsArt is the truest expression of the workings of the mind, free from learned language. More than that, it is the visual expression of culture, politics, society, religion, emotion, zeitgeist, channeled through the brush, chisel, or hands of creative individuals. Understanding art allows us to understand history: to pin it with images, and pepper it with the faces, colours, drama and expression of its time. This series is designed to give bite-sized insights into the world of Art History, bringing one image to life across a wide-ranging discussion with experts. History is never far from view, so each image will be expanded to sit within the cultural and historical context that produced it. Presented by Janina Ramirez Produced by Dan Morelle
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Episodes
Yellow-Red-Blue by Wassily Kandinsky - with Marc Canham
April 19, 2017 16:10 - 38 minutes - 52.3 MBMarc Canham @marc_canham is a composer whose work spans film, video games, and art. His compositions have been remixed and re-interpreted by UNKLE, Amon Tobin, and Diplo, and he has also worked with artists such as Nathan Johnson, Philip Glass, Iggy Pop, Paul Hartnoll, and Baaba Maal. Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky was a Russian painter and art theorist. He is credited with painting one of the first recognised purely abstract works. Born in Moscow, Kandinsky spent his childhood in Odessa, wh...
Portrait of Sarah Bernhardt by Georges Clairin - with Christophe Leribault
April 12, 2017 06:42 - 27 minutes - 24.8 MBGeorges Jules Victor Clairin was a French Oriental painter and illustrator. He was influenced by oriental painting and Moorish architecture, and visited North Africa many times, in particular Morocco and Egypt. In Paris he led the life of a socialite, and befriended the glamorous actress Sarah Bernhardt, his friend for 50 years, and is today best known for his 'in costume' and informal intimate portraits of her. Christophe Leribault is Head of the Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Vil...
The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp - with Adam Rutherford
April 07, 2017 05:30 - 46 minutes - 63.9 MBDr. Adam Rutherford is a science writer and broadcaster.On radio, he is the presenter of BBC Radio 4’s flagship science programme, Inside Science, as well as many documentaries, on the inheritance of intelligence, on MMR and autism, human evolution, astronomy and art, science and cinema, scientific fraud, and the evolution of sex. Adam's latest book is entitled A Brief History of Everyone who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes. The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp is a 1632 oil painting ...
Equestrian Portrait of Charles I by Anthony van Dyck - with Bendor Grosvenor
March 31, 2017 05:30 - 29 minutes - 26.8 MBBendor Grosvenor is a British art dealer, art historian and writer. He is known for discovering a number of important lost works by Old Master artists, including Sir Peter Paul Rubens, Claude Lorrain and Peter Brueghel the Younger. The Equestrian Portrait of Charles I (also known as Charles I on Horseback) is an oil painting on canvas by Anthony van Dyck, showing Charles I on horseback. Charles I had become King of Great Britain and Ireland in 1625 on the death of his father James I, and Van ...
Map of Constantinople & The Hereford Mappa Mundi - with Peter Frankopan
March 22, 2017 06:00 - 46 minutes - 42.2 MBDr. Peter Frankopan is a historian at Oxford University, where he is Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College, Oxford and Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research. Peter's book The Silk Roads: A New History of the World, is an international bestseller, described by William Dalrymple as a 'historicalepic of dazzling range, ambition and achievement' (Observer) View the episode's works: Map of Constantinople here. View the Hereford Mappa Mundi here. Subscribe, rate and review o...
Tipu's Tiger - with Sona Datta
March 17, 2017 16:30 - 39.4 MBSona Datta is an Art historian and Curator of South Asia at Peabody Essex Museum. Her most recent documentary series for the BBC, 'Treasures of the Indus', tells the story of the Indian sub-continent through the treasures that have shaped the modern Indian world. Tipu's Tiger is an eighteenth-century automaton created for Tipu Sultan, the ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore in India. The carved and painted wood casing represents a tiger savaging a near life-size European man. Mechanisms inside th...
Tipu's Tiger - with Sona Datta
March 17, 2017 16:30 - 28 minutes - 39.4 MBSona Datta is an Art historian and Curator of South Asia at Peabody Essex Museum. Her most recent documentary series for the BBC, 'Treasures of the Indus', tells the story of the Indian sub-continent through the treasures that have shaped the modern Indian world. Tipu's Tiger is an eighteenth-century automaton created for Tipu Sultan, the ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore in India. The carved and painted wood casing represents a tiger savaging a near life-size European man. Mechanisms inside the...
Fire! Fire! by Enrico Baj - with Rickie Martin
March 15, 2017 05:30 - 31 minutes - 43.1 MBRicky Martin is an artist, director, and animator. His is Creative Director at Aardman Animation and presents the popular children's' TV show 'Art Ninja' on CBBC. Enrico Baj was an Italian artist and writer on art. Many of his works show an obsession with nuclear war. He created prints, sculptures but especially collage. He was close to the surrealist and dada movements, and was later associated with CoBrA. As an author he has been described as a leading promoter of the avant-garde. He worked...
The Cage Paintings by Gerhard Richter - with Phil Selway
March 08, 2017 08:01 - 30 minutes - 41.8 MBJanina continues to blur the boundaries of Art talking with Phil Selway the drummer for legendary and genre-defying band, Radiohead. Together they peel back the layers of collaboration, performance, self-expression, music, play, and much more. Prepare to have your mind-blown. Again. Gerhard Richter is a German visual artist. Richter has produced abstract as well as photorealistic paintings, and also photographs and glass pieces. His art follows the examples of Picasso and Jean Arp in undermin...
No. 5, 1948 by Jackson Pollock - with Marcus du Sautoy
March 01, 2017 05:30 - 39 minutes - 53.8 MBMarcus Peter Francis du Sautoy FRS OBE, is the Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science and a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford. View this episode's image here. Subscribe, rate and review on iTunes and follow Janina on Twitter. Follow History Hit on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Please share this episode on Twitter and Facebook. Producer: Dan Morelle Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Franks Casket - with Tony Robinson
February 22, 2017 05:30 - 34 minutes - 47.6 MBSir Tony Robinson is an English actor, comedian, TV presenter and political activist. He is known for playing Baldrick in the BBC television series Blackadder and for hosting Channel 4 programmes such as Time Team and The Worst Jobs in History. View this episode's image here. Subscribe, rate and review on iTunes and follow Janina on Twitter. Follow History Hit on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Please share this episode on Twitter and Facebook. Producer: Dan Morelle Hosted on Acast. ...
Ely Cathedral - with Will Shank
February 20, 2017 16:57 - 15 minutes - 21.7 MBSubscribe, rate and review on iTunes and follow Janina on Twitter. Follow History Hit on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Please share this episode on Twitter and Facebook. Producer: Dan Morelle Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jonathan Foyle
February 15, 2017 05:45 - 36 minutes - 50.1 MBJonathan Foyle is an architectural historian, broadcaster and advocate for heritage sites. View this episode's image here. Subscribe, rate and review on iTunes and follow Janina on Twitter. Follow History Hit on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Please share this episode on Twitter and Facebook. Producer: Dan Morelle Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Cave Art Paintings of the Lascaux Cave - with Professor Alice Roberts
February 08, 2017 08:45 - 37 minutes - 51.1 MBAlice Roberts is an anatomist, anthropologist and Professor of Public Engagement in Science at the University of Birmingham. She is also a broadcaster and has presented several landmark BBC series including The Incredible Human Journey, Origins of Us, Ice Age Giants and The Celts. She has also presented several Horizon programmes, and occasionally presents Costing The Earth on Radio 4. She has written seven popular science and archaeology books. Her book about embryology and evolution, The In...
Sutton Hoo Shoulder Clasp - with Jim Peters
February 01, 2017 05:01 - 35 minutes - 48.9 MBView this episode's image here. Producer: Dan Morelle Subscribe, rate and review on iTunes and follow Janina on Twitter. Follow History Hit on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Please share this episode on Twitter and Facebook. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Minisode - Flaming June
January 29, 2017 21:34 - 10 minutes - 15 MBView this episode's image here. Producer: Dan Morelle Subscribe, rate and review on iTunes and follow Janina on Twitter. Follow History Hit on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Please share this episode on Twitter and Facebook. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymous Bosch – with Waldemar Januszack
January 25, 2017 05:01 - 46 minutes - 63.9 MBView this week's image here. Waldemar Januszczak is a British art critic and television documentary producer and presenter. Formerly the art critic of The Guardian, he took the same role at The Sunday Times in 1992, and has twice won the Critic of the Year award. Producer: Dan Morelle Subscribe, rate and review on iTunes and follow Janina on Twitter. Follow History Hit on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Please share this episode on Twitter and Facebook. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com...
Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci - with Martin Kemp
January 18, 2017 04:45 - 30 minutes - 41.9 MBView this week's image here. Martin Kemp is Professor Emeritus of the History of Art; Honorary Fellow of Trinity College. Professor Kemp has published extensively on Leonardo, Renaissance art, and the links between art and science. Producer: Dan Morelle Subscribe, rate and review on iTunes and follow Janina on Twitter. Follow History Hit on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Please share this episode on Twitter and Facebook. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Gin Lane by Hogarth - with Lars Tharp
January 11, 2017 05:29 - 36 minutes - 50 MBView this week's image here. Producer: Dan Morelle Subscribe, rate and review on iTunes and follow Janina on Twitter. Follow History Hit on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Please share this episode on Twitter and Facebook. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Early One Morning by Sir Anthony Caro – with Alistair Sooke
January 04, 2017 05:24 - 31 minutes - 43 MBView this week’s image here. Producer: Dan Morelle Subscribe, rate and review on iTunes and follow Janina on Twitter. Follow History Hit on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Please share this episode on Twitter and Facebook. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Fighting Temeraire by Turner – with Dan Snow
December 28, 2016 05:30 - 22 minutes - 30.7 MBView this week’s image here. Producer: Dan Morelle Subscribe, rate and review on iTunes and follow Janina on Twitter. Follow History Hit on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Please share this episode on Twitter and Facebook. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Theodora Mosaic, Ravenna – with Bettany Hughes
December 21, 2016 05:29 - 30 minutes - 41.3 MBView this week’s image here. Producer: Dan Morelle Subscribe, rate and review on iTunes and follow Janina on Twitter. Follow History Hit on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Please share this episode on Twitter and Facebook. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Elizabeth I – Armada Portrait
December 14, 2016 05:05 - 17 minutes - 24 MBView this week’s image here. Producer: Dan Morelle Subscribe, rate and review on iTunes and follow on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Please share this episode on Twitter and Facebook. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Introduction
December 05, 2016 12:20 - 2 minutes - 3.51 MBArt is the truest expression of the workings of the mind, free from learnt language. More than that, it is the visual expression of culture, politics, society, religion, emotion, zeitgeist, channelled through the brush, chisel, or hands of creative individuals. Understanding art allows us to understand history: to pin it with images, and pepper it with the faces, colours, drama and expression of its time. This series is designed to give bite sized insights into the world of Art History, bri...