Painting of the Week Podcast
Episodes
Season 7 ep. 10: J. M. W. Turner, Brighthelmston, Sussex
13 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
To finish off Season 7, we have a gorgeous watercolour by the one and only J. M. W. Turner, which depicts Exhibition on Screen's hometown of Brig...
Season 7 ep. 9: John Constable, Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows
05 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A classic image of the "four seasons in one day" that epitomises British weather, there is much more to this picturesque Constable landscape...
Season 5 ep. 8: The Chess Game, Sofonisba Anguissola
26 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Phil and Laura are joined by author and filmmaker Howard Burton for this episode, which examines an intriguing portrait of the 23 year old female ar...
Season 5 ep. 7: Emily McIlroy, River of Passing
19 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Phil is once again with Wendy Smith - Assistant Director of the San Juan Islands Museum of Art, Washington - and this time they are examining a monum...
Season 7 ep. 6: Bernard Perlin, Orthodox Boys!
12 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Phil and Laura speak with author Michael Schreiber about a deeply symbolic work by , painted Bernard Perlin, who was rejected from th...
Season 7 Ep 5: Caravaggio, Victorious Cupid
05 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A real treat for you in this episode, as Phil goes on a field trip to London to meet with Xavier Bray, Director of the Wallace Collection, and discuss...
Season 7 Ep 4: Hermann Herzog, Sunset in the Florida Hammocks
29 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
For this week's episode, Phil speaks with author & art dealer Deborah Pollack about Hermann Herzog’s steamy Florida wilderness, which he de...
Season 7 ep. 3: Cecilia Beaux, Twilight Confidences
23 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Captivated by Breton peasants in their striking costumes on a summer trip to the countryside in 1888, the wonderful American artist Cecilia Beaux was ...
Season 7, ep 2: An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump, Joseph Wright of Derby
22 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s focus in an artist who has been called ‘the British Caravaggio’. This eerie candlelit scene shows a scientific experiment in the ‘...
Season 7 ep. 1: Whistler, Whistler’s Mother
09 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a new year and a new season of Painting of the Week! We’re starting off with one of the 20th century’s best-known artworks, beloved for its...
Christmas Special 2025
19 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Laura and Phil get into the Christmas spirit by seeking out festive artworks and having a giggle along the way. What artworks does your Christmas lunc...
Season 6 Ep 10: Caravaggio, Conversion of Saint Paul
16 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Finishing season 6 off on a high, we have special guest David Bickerstaff - co-director of Exhibition on Screen’s ‘Caravaggio’ - exploring the t...
Season 6 Ep 9: Georges Seurat, Bathers at Asnières
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Painted before his 25th birthday, this monumental 2m x 3m work was supposed to be Seurat’s big break but was rejected by the 1884 Salon... Psst! Th...
Season 6 Ep 8: Dora Carrington, Farmhouse at Waternlath
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Phil and Laura talk about a Tate Britain work that pulls you in with its striking depiction of the rolling hills of Cumbria, uncovering the...
Season 6 Ep 7: Zdeněk Dvořák, Czech Tradition
19 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This visceral photograph of a butcher at work, chosen by special guest World Food Photography Awards founder Caroline Kenyon, brings up issues surroun...
Season 6 Ep 6: Henri Matisse, Woman Reading at a Yellow Table
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Phil and Laura talk to Christopher Gorham, author of the fascinating new book ‘Matisse and Art Under the Nazis’, and explore how ...
Season 6 Ep 5: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, La Chaîne Simpson
04 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Two icons of French culture come together in this week’s artwork – Toulouse-Lautrec and the bicycle! Known for his ability to capture the bohemian...
Season 6 Ep 4: Artemesia Gentileschi, Self Portrait as Saint Catherine
28 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode examines Artemesia’s powerful self-portrait and the heartbreaking, inspirational story of survival behind it - with special guest Asia ...
Season 6 Ep 3: Keith Pettit, Cabriole
21 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s episode features a fascinating sculpture carved from ‘Bog Oak’, preserved for nearly 6,000 years in a Sussex peat bog being transfor...
Season 6, Ep.2: J M W Turner, The Lake, Petworth: Sunset, Fighting Bucks at Petworth
15 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
J. M. W. Turner, The Lake, Petworth: Sunset, Fighting Bucks at Petworth Recorded on site at Petworth House, West Sussex with curator Dr. Emily Knight...
Season 6, Ep.1: Leonardo da Vinci, The Last Supper
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kicking off Season 6 with a bang is one of the most famous works of art in history – Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘The Last Supper’. In this episode, P...
Season 5, Ep.11: Tibetan Wheel of Life Thangka
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For the final episode of Season 5, Phil teams up with his brother Marc to examine his beautiful Christmas present, a stunning depiction of the Buddhis...
Season 5, Ep.10: Wood, Earth, Hoop by Walter Bailey
06 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode, Phil & Laura talk to Mark Collins, art collector and owner of Artelium Wine Estate in Sussex to discuss a unique scul...
Season 5, Ep.9: Orange, Red, Yellow by Mark Rothko
30 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A badly needed splash of colour this week as Phil & Laura take a deep dive into a Rothko work which sold in 2012 for the staggering sum of $87 mil...
Season 5, Ep.8: Genesis #9/18 by Alan Magee
24 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Phil speaks to us from Friday Harbour, San Juan Island, USA with Assistant Curator of the San Juan Islands Museum of Art Wendy Smith about ...
Season 5, Ep.6: Deep Forest by Emily Carr
21 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Phil meets with senior curator Richard Hill from the Vancouver Art Gallery to discuss a moody and mysterious work by the matriarch of Canad...
Season 5, Ep.7: The Haywain Tryptich by Hieronymus Bosch
16 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Laura and Phil discuss the eternally bizarre and delightful Bosch, focusing on one of his fabulous triptychs, with this one telling the sto...
Season 5, Ep.5: Starry Night over the Rhône by Van Gogh with Martin Bailey
02 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The new year kicks off with Phil revisiting Van Gogh’s romantic masterpiece – and the poster image for our smash hit documentary Van Gogh: Poets &...
Season 5, Ep.4: Christmas Special - The Monopoly Board, Lizzie Magie
24 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this cosy Christmas special, Laura and Phil sit down with three times British Monopoly champion (and Phil’s brother) Mike and his long-suffering ...
Season 5, Ep.3: Le Pont-Neuf by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
19 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Phil speaks with curator Mary Morton at one of his favourite galleries - the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC - about a poignant view of Paris a...
Season 5, Ep.2: Christ of Saint John of the Cross by Salvador Dalí
12 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Phil & Laura look at Dali’s unique take on the crucifixion, supposedly inspired by what Dali called his “cosmic dream” of t...
Season 5, Ep.1: Olive Grove, Saint-Rémy (1889) by Vincent van Gogh
05 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Season 5 begins in the warm and inviting olive groves around Saint Remy which Van Gogh painted repeatedly, fascinated as he was by the irregular growt...
Season 4, Ep.10: Starry Night Over the Rhône by Vincent Van Gogh
27 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Phil and Laura look at Vincent’s other ‘Starry Night’, painted just down the road from his famous yellow house in Arles, and explore ...
Season 4, Ep.9: Augustus of Prima Porta Statue - Vatican Museums
19 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Talk about good PR! This masterpiece by an unknown Greek artist depicts the first official emperor of Rome, Augustus, demonstrating his firm grasp of ...
Season 4, Ep.8: Colliers Unloading on Hove Beach by John Constable
13 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Phil’s takes leading BBC radio presenter Danny Pike for a trip to the Brighton Pavilion to examine local legend John Constable’s stunni...
Season 4, Ep.7: Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez
04 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Phil and Laura discuss what has been repeatedly named one of the greatest paintings in history, the monumental ‘Las Meninas’ or ‘The ...
Season 4, Ep.6: Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando by Edgar Degas
30 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week, co-directors of My National Gallery, London Ali Ray and Phil Grabsky discuss Ali’s favourite work in this world-renowned gallery, and jus...
Season 4, Ep.5: Rain, Steam, and Speed by JMW Turner
20 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Phil and Laura discuss the wonderfully dynamic Turner work which Michael Palin called his “science fiction painting” in My Nation...
Season 4, Ep.4: The Virgin of the Rocks by Leonardo da Vinci
20 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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Season 4, Ep.3: The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein the Younger
02 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week's topic of discussion is Holbein’s masterpiece from one of the most important years in British history – 1533. This was the year th...
Season 4, Ep.2: The AIDS Memorial Quilt with Yvonne Gilleece
17 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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Season 4, Ep.1: Madame X by John Singer Sargent
11 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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Christmas Special: Painting of the Year
19 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this special Christmas episode, Phil and Laura pick their top 3 favourite paintings from a year full of masterpieces to discuss over Laura's h...
Season 3, Ep.20, Gustav Klimt - Hermine Gallia
25 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of Painting of the Week, Phil & Laura discuss a Klimt work which sits right on the cusp of his drastic artistic transformation...P...
Season 3, Ep.19: Ditchling War Memorial by Eric Gill
14 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Phil, Laura and special guest Janet Laurence explore a local work by a controversial artist Eric Gill, a terrible man with a wonderful talent, and deb...
Season 3, Ep.18 Mohri Yuko - Moré Moré
14 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode explores a wildly different art style on the cutting edge of the Japanese avant-garde movement, as featured in our latest film’ Tokyo S...
Season 3, Ep 17: Georges de La Tour - Penitent Magdalen
03 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This moody, gothic painting was a clean break from the bombastic nature of the baroque style which dominated in the seventeenth century and brings the...
Season 3, Ep 16: Wilfredo Lam - La Silla (The Chair)
20 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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Season 3, ep.15: Charles Webster Hawthorne - The Boat Steerer
29 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode, recorded at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum with CEO Chris McCarthy, examines an evocative painting by one of the founders o...
Season 3 Ep.14: John Singer Sargent - El Jaleo
08 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode explores a dynamic masterpiece by the greatest portraitist of his time, John Singer Sargent, and his immersion into the "Hispanism&q...
Season 3, Ep 13: Egon Schiele - Seated Woman with Bent Knees
08 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week's Painting of the Week explores a work which subverts the traditional beauty standard, bringing a sense of grittiness and discomfort in...
Season 2, Ep. 12: Goya, The Duchess of Alba
10 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Phil and Laura discuss Goya's portrait of a formidable young noble woman, recently widowed. Is there more to this portrait than meets ...
Season 3, Ep.11: Albrecht Dürer, Great Piece of Turf
02 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week Phil and Laura explore Albrecht Dürer's 'Great Piece of Turf' and what made this very pretty patch of lawn so ground-breakin...
Season 3, Ep.10: Vermeer - Girl Reading a Letter by an Open Window
16 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this very special episode Phil speaks to 'Girl With a Pearl Earring' author Tracy Chevalier from the Rijksmuseum's once-in-a-lifetim...
Season 3, Ep. 9: Caravaggio, The Calling of Saint Matthew
25 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Join Phil and Laura this week as they discuss Caravaggio's 'The Calling of Saint Matthew', a masterpiece that brings this pivotal bibli...
Season 3, Ep.8: Pieter de Hooch - Courtyard of a House in Delft
12 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Phil and Laura explore this masterpiece from the Dutch Golden Age, uncovering the magic contained within this very normal visions of ...
Season 3, Ep. 7: Horace Pippin - Christmas Morning, Breakfast
21 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In today's festive episode, Phil and Laura focus on Horace Pippin's 'Christmas Morning, Breakfast' and the fascinating story of on...
Season 3, Ep.6: Rembrandt, The Jewish Bride
24 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For this episode, Phil and Laura discuss a mysterious masterpiece by Rembrandt...Psst! The Folium Diary has something it wants to tell you - please co...
Season 3, Ep. 5: Renoir, Luncheon of the Boating Party
21 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week Phil and Laura discuss one of their favourite paintings - Renoir's Luncheon of the Boating Party - and why its creator was such a contr...
Season 3, Ep. 4: William Meyerowitz, Gloucester Humoresque
02 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For this episode, Phil traveled to the wonderful Cape Ann Museum in New England while making 'Hopper: An American Love Story' and discussed ...
Season 3, Ep. 3: Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog
29 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we explore a painting that has become the archetypal image of the Romantic era and the Sublime…Psst! The Folium Diary has something it wa...
Season 3, Ep. 2: Rene Margritte, The Promenades of Euclid
09 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Phil and Laura discuss a surrealist painting that plays with the idea of reality and perception...Psst! The Folium Diary has something it w...
Season 3, Ep. 1: Dame Laura Knight, Ruby Loftus Screwing a Breech Ring
25 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Season 3 begins with Phil and Laura discussing an important wartime work which reveals much about the previously untapped skills of British women...Ps...
Season 2, Ep. 20: Daybreak - Maxfield Parrish
28 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
To celebrate the clocks going forward here in the U.K. and the return to 'British Summer time', this Painting of the Week is Maxfield Parris...
Season 2, Ep. 19: Kiss of Judas - Giotto
22 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Phil and Laura discuss one of Phil's favourite paintings to feature in the Exhibition on Screen film ‘Easter in Art’: Giotto’s K...
Season 2, Ep. 18: Railroad Gates - Jo Hopper, Edward Hopper
15 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Phil and Hopper House curator Elizabeth Thompson Colleary discuss not one but two paintings, both entitled ‘Railroad Gates’ - one by Ed...
Season 2, Ep. 17: The Madonna del Parto - Piero della Francesca
08 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Painted in just seven working days, this extraordinary fresco only narrowly escaped total destruction in 1785… For more information and to see the ...
Season 2, Ep. 16: The Night Watch - Rembrandt
01 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This enormous masterpiece is one of Rembrandt’s finest works, and one of the most famous of the Dutch Golden Age. Brimming with life, it has a fasci...
Season 2, Ep. 15: The Two Fridas (1939) - Frida Kahlo
22 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this date made entirely of twos - 22/2/22 - we are celebrating 2 weeks until the release of our film exploring the life and art of international ic...
Season 2, Ep. 14: The Room with a View - Duncan Grant
15 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Phil & Laura journey to Charleston House in rural Sussex to explore an excellent Duncan Grant exhibition, selecting his fascinati...
Season 2, Ep. 13: Virgin and Child with Canon van der Paele (1434–1436) - Jan van Eyck
08 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This 1436 tomb decoration brings Jesus and the Virgin Mary into the contemporary world, and right in front of the man who commissioned the painting…...
Season 2, Ep. 12: Filtres a Cafe (91-S) - Kaixuan Feng
03 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In honour of Chinese New Year today, our #PaintingOfTheWeek is by Chinese artist Kaixuan Feng, who has trained in both traditional Chinese painting an...
Season 2, Ep. 11: The Skating Minister (The Reverend Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch) - Henry Raeburn
25 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For this special Burns' Night edition of Painting of the Week, Phil & Laura are looking at an iconic and decidedly unusual Scottish painting ...
Season 2, Ep. 10: The Deposition from the Cross (altarpiece) - Jacopo Pontormo
18 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sitting between High Renaissance and Baroque styles, this 16th century altarpiece from the Capponi Chapel in Florence brings together two of the most ...
Season 2, Ep. 9: The Lady of Shalott - William Holman Hunt
11 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A painting based on a drawing based on a poem based on a legend… this week Phil & Laura discuss Hunt’s rendition of the legend of the Lady of ...
Season 2, Ep. 8: Great Bookcase - William Burges
04 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Worked on by fourteen leading nineteenth century artists and taking 3 years to complete, the stunning ‘Great Bookcase’ is so much more than a piec...
Season 2, Ep. 7: The Bridge at Argenteuil - Alfred Sisley
28 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week Phil and Laura take a look at The Bridge at Argenteuil, painted in 1872 by Impressionist Alfred Sisley. A prolific artist who painted numero...
Season 2, Ep. 6: In The Loge - Mary Cassatt
14 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Listen in this week to find out more about Mary Cassatt - a key figure in the impressionist movement who has been frequently overlooked - and her 1878...
Season 2, Ep. 5: The Gleaners - John Constable
07 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Phil and Laura look at one of the greatest of all British artists: John Constable. He is known best for his Suffolk (eastern England)...
Season 2, Ep. 4: Dept Store Game - Utagawa Kunimasa IV
30 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
An absolute treat this week – from the 5-star exhibition The Art of Tokyo at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, UK. Is it a painting or is it a board g...
Season 2, Ep. 3: ‘Four Girls on a Bridge’ - Edvard Munch (1905)
23 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This painting by Edvard Munch depicts girls standing on a bridge wearing bright clothes and with a bright blue sky overhead, perhaps suggesting that i...
Season 2, Ep. 2: Portrait of John Ruskin - John Everett Millais
16 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This portrait of Victorian art critic John Ruskin was painted by Millais in 1853-4. Ruskin was an early advocate of the pre-Raphaelites and part of th...
Season 2, Ep. 1: Going to the Match - L.S. Lowry
09 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this famous scene, painted by Lowry in 1928, we see countless fans hurrying towards the turnstiles to see a football match. As with so many of his ...
Season 1, Ep. 20: The Railway - Edouard Manet
04 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Painted in 1873, The Railway is the last painting by Manet of his favourite model, fellow painter Victorine Meurent. We see her sitting with a sleepin...
Season 1, Ep. 19: Triumphs of Caesar - Andrea Mantegna
25 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Painting of The Week Podcast, Laura and Phil take a look at 'Triumphs of Caesar' by Andrea MantegnaFor more informati...
Season 1, Ep. 18: Portrait of Pope Innocent X (1650) - Diego Velázquez
18 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Painted by the extraordinary Spanish artist Diego Velázquez in Rome in 1650, Pope Innocent X considered this portrait to be ‘too true’… Laura a...
Season 1, Ep. 17: Uneasy centre, 1963 - Bridget Riley
11 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Bridget Riley is one of today’s most prominent artists, having made her name in the 1960s with black and white paintings that explored the dynamic e...
Season 1, Ep. 16: Girl in a Boat, with Geese - Berthe Morisot
04 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Phil and Laura this week look at a painting by Berthe Morisot, one of the leading French Impressionists. The vivid oil painting features a lady rowing...
Season 1, Ep. 15: Money Art - Shamsia Hassani
06 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Phil and Laura reflect on recent events in Afghanistan by looking at the works of Shamisa Hassani. Born April 1988, Hassani is the fi...
Season 1, Ep. 14: The Alexander Mosaic
30 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A one-and-a-half-million-piece marble mosaic that is as stunning as it is fascinating. Found in Pompeii and now in the wonderful archaeological museum...
Season 1, Ep. 13: Girl with a Pearl Earring - Johannes Vermeer
23 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Created by Johannes Vermeer in 1665, this painting is among the most popular ever painted. Phil and Laura look a little closer at this enigmatic portr...
Season 1, Ep. 12: The Snail - Henri Matisse
16 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week Phil & Laura explore one of Matisse’s most famous works, created towards the end of his life when he was confined to bed due to ill he...
Season 1, Ep. 11: People in the Sun - Edward Hopper
09 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Among the greatest of all American painters, Hopper frequently focusses on humans in different forms of isolation. His People in the Sun may seem to b...
Season 1, Ep. 10: Mrs Acton in Delhi - Howard Hodgkin
02 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hodgkin was one of Britain’s foremost contemporary painters and is hugely popular. India was a place very close to his heart, and the fascinating Mr...
Season 1, Ep. 9: The Hunters in the Snow - Pieter Bruegel
28 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The wintry scene painted by Bruegel in 1565 is one of a series depicting rural life at different times of the year. The three hunters are seen returni...
Season 1, Ep. 8: Portrait of the Journalist Sylvia von Harden - Otto Dix
21 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This portrait, painted in 1926, came about when German artist Otto Dix passed the journalist in the street and exclaimed ‘I must paint you! I simply...
Season 1, Ep. 7: The Descent from the Cross - Peter Paul Rubens
14 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This masterpiece, painted by Rubens in 1612-1614 for Antwerp Cathedral is this week’s Painting Of The Week. What makes it so famous? Phil & Laur...
Season 1, Ep. 6: Les Demoiselles d'Avignon - Picasso
07 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The most important painting of the 20th century marks the end of the transition of Pablo Picasso from a young lad in Malaga to the art-world giant in ...
Season 1, Ep. 5: Train Landscape - Eric Ravilious
30 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Ravilious’s Train Landscape is one of his best-loved watercolours. Painted in 1939 it shows the Westbury Horse in Wiltshire as seen from the wi...
Season 1, Ep. 4: The Death of Marat - Jacques-Louis David
23 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David in 1793 depicts the body of Jean-Paul Marat lying dead in his bath after his murder, and is one of the most ...