The Masked Matriarch
Museum Secrets
English - January 14, 2021 01:00 - 10 minutes - 7.19 MB - ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsArts History museum oxford funny art ashmolean uplifting curators history behind the scenes Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Catherine Whistler, Keeper of the Western Art Department, introduces us to Titian’s Triumph of Love, an amusing painting which hides a secret: it was once the cover of a portrait of one of the most formidable women in Venice.
Titian’s Triumph of Love – View it here
If you want to take a closer look at Titian’s Triumph of Love, you can view it at the link above, or visit the podcast page on the Ashmolean website: ashmolean.org/museum-secrets
Producer: Lucie Dawkins
Presenters: Lucie Dawkins and Catherine Whistler
About Museum Secrets: The curators at the University of Oxford's Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology have been recording bite-sized tales of the wonderful, and sometimes unexpected, life of a museum. We can’t wait to share them with you! Join us every weekday for 3 weeks, from 28 December onwards, for a daily dose of cheer.