Catégorie : Audio comments

Short audio’s taped during pedagogical lectures given to friends.

  1. PARIS: Louvre, short note about the building;
  2. PARIS, Louvre – The Greek tradition behind the Fayum Mummy Portraits;
  3. PARIS, Louvre – Cimabue, Giotto, Fra Angelico, the Wonders of the Italian Trecento;
  4. PARIS, Louvre – Who was whispering in the Ear of Joan of Arc;
  5. PARIS, Louvre – Van der Weyden and Cusanus;
  6. PARIS, Louvre – Antonello de Messina and Man in the image of Christ;
  7. PARIS, Louvre – Ghirlandaio’s immortality;
  8. PARIS, Louvre – The Rigor of Mantegna’s crucifixion;
  9. PARIS, Louvre – Leonardo and Verrocchio’s workshop;
  10. PARIS, Louvre – Why Leonardo didn’t like painting;
  11. PARIS, Louvre – Mona Lisa made in China?;
  12. PARIS, Louvre – How Bosch’s Ship of Fools drove the Jester out of business;
  13. PARIS, Louvre – Why Erasmus had no time to pause for portraits;
  14. PARIS, Louvre – Rembrandt, sculptor of Light;
  15. PARIS, Louvre – Why Vermeer was hiding his convictions;
  16. PARIS, Louvre – Van Eyck, Nicolas Rolin and the Peace of Arras.
  17. BERLIN, Gemäldegalerie – Vermeer’s Young Woman with a Pearl Necklace.
  18. BERLIN, Gemäldegalerie – Van Eyck’s Theological Metaphore
  19. BERLIN, Gemäldegalerie – Joachim Patinir and the Homo Viator
  20. BERLIN, Gemäldegalerie – The culture behind Bruegel’s Proverbs
  21. BERLIN, Gemäldegalerie – Bruegel’s Two Apes
  22. BERLIN, Gemäldegalerie – Rembrandt painting the voice of Anslo
  23. BERLIN, Gemäldegalerie – Matsys and « The Art of the Deal »
  24. ANTWERP, Mayer Van den Bergh – Bruegel’s « Dulle Griet » (Mad Meg): we see her madness, but do we see ours?
  25. BRUSSELS, Museum for Ancient Art – Bruegel’s Theodicy: The Fall of the Rebel Angels.
  26. BRUSSELS, Museum for Ancient Art – What Bruegel’s snow landscape teaches us about human fragility
  27. BRUSSELS, Museum for Ancient Art – Bruegel’s Fall of Empire (Icarus)
  28. BRUSSELS, Bozar Exhibition – Goya asks us to make sure Truth raises again
  29. BRUSSELS, Bozar Exhibition – Goya’s portrait of Bayeu
  30. BRUSSELS, Bozar Exhibition – Goya’s Simpleton not simple

 

AUDIO: Bruegel’s Fall of Empire (Icarus)

Brussels, Dec. 2025 – Karel Vereycken commenting the Fall of Icarus, a 16th Century painting on a theme familiar to Bruegel.

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AUDIO: Goya asks us to make sure Truth raises again

Goya
Brussels, Dec. 2025 – Karel Vereycken commenting two engravings of Goya’s Disasters of War.
Plate 79 from « The Disasters of War » (Los Desastres de la Guerra): ‘Truth has died’ (Murió la verdad).
Plate 80 from « The Disasters of War » (Los Desastres de la Guerra): ‘Will she rise again?’ (Si resucitará?).

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AUDIO: What Bruegel’s snow landscape teaches us about human fragility

Brussels, Dec. 2025 – Karel Vereycken commenting Bruegel’s « Winter Landscape with a Bird Trap » (1565).

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Pieter Bruegel the Elder, « Winterlandscape with Bird Trap« , 1565.

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AUDIO: Goya’s Simpleton not simple

December 2025 – Karel Vereycken at Brussels exhibit, commenting Goya’s etching Bobalicón (Simpleton), also known as Tras el vicio viene el fornicio (After Vice Comes Fornication), from the series Los disparates (The Irrationalities).
Goya’s etching Bobalicón (Simpleton), also known as Tras el vicio viene el fornicio (After Vice Comes Fornication), from the series Los disparates (The Follies/Irrationalities).
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AUDIO: Goya’s portrait of Bayeu

Karel Vereycken, at the Goya exhibition in Brussels on Dec. 2025.
Francisco Bayeu’s 1792 selfportrait (left). Goya’s portrait of Bayeu (right).
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AUDIO – Bruegel’s Theodicy: The Fall of the Rebel Angels

Angels
Karel Vereycken in Brussels, commenting Bruegel’s 1562 painting The Fall of The Rebel Angels.
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Fall of the Rebel Angels, 1562, Brussels.

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AUDIO: Bruegel’s Mad Meg: we see her madness, but do we see ours ?

Karel Vereycken in Antwerp’s Museum Mayer Van den Bergh, commenting Bruegel’s « Dulle Griet » (Mad Meg) on Dec. 2025.
Unarmed women binding the devil on a cushion. If they can, so can we?

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AUDIO – Vermeer’s Young Woman with a Pearl Necklace

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Vermeer, Metsu, Ter Borch, Hals, l’éloge du quotidien. FR pdf (Nouvelle Solidarité)

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AUDIO – Van Eyck’s theological metaphor in his Madonna in the Cathedral (Berlin)

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Jan Van Eyck, a Flemish Painter using Arab Optics (EN online)
Jan van Eyck, la beauté comme prégustation de la sagesse divine (FR en ligne) + EN on line.

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AUDIO – Joachim Patinir and the Homo Viator

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Quinten Matsys and Leonardo — The Dawn of the Age of Laugher and Creativity, (EN online);

Квентин Массейс и Леонардо: на заре смехотворчества (RU pdf)

Joachim Patinir et l’invention du paysage en peinture (FR en ligne).

Joachim Patinir and the invention of landscape painting (EN online)

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AUDIO – The Culture behind Brueghel’s Proverbs (Berlin)

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List and explication of the proverbs

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ARTKAREL AUDIO GUIDE — Bruegel’s Two Apes (Berlin)

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AUDIO – Rembrandt painting the voice of Anslo (Berlin)

Karel Vereycken during his comments.

1st AUDIO with comments made in Berlin Museum on June 6, 2025.


2nd AUDIO with détailed 45 minutes presentation and analysis during zoom dialogue on September 21, 2025 with Schiller Institute friends in the United States.

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ARTKAREL AUDIO GUIDE — Matsys and the Art of « The Deal » (Berlin)

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ARTKAREL AUDIO GUIDE: Van Eyck, Rolin and the Peace of Arras (Paris)

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Detail

Back of Van Eyck’s painting showing imitation of gorgeous marble!
La Vierge du Chancelier Rolin

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Other audios of the Louvre Audio Guide collection:

  1. Short note about the building;
  2. The Greek tradition behind the Fayum Mummy Portraits;
  3. Cimabue, Giotto, Fra Angelico, the Wonders of the Italian Trecento;
  4. Who was whispering in the Ear of Joan of Arc;
  5. Van der Weyden and Cusanus;
  6. Antonello de Messina and Man in the image of Christ;
  7. Ghirlandaio’s immortality;
  8. The Rigor of Mantegna’s crucifixion;
  9. Leonardo and Verrocchio’s workshop;
  10. Why Leonardo didn’t like painting;
  11. Mona Lisa made in China?;
  12. How Bosch’s Ship of Fools drove the Jester out of business;
  13. Why Erasmus had no time to pause for portraits;
  14. Rembrandt, sculptor of Light;
  15. Why Vermeer was hiding his convictions;
  16. Van Eyck, Nicolas Rolin and the Peace of Arras.

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LOUVRE AUDIO GUIDE: Antonello de Messina in the Image of Christ

Karel Vereycken analyzing Antonnello de Messina’s « Christ at the Column », Louvre, Paris.

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LOUVRE AUDIO GUIDE: Mona Lisa made in China?

Karel Vereycken analyzing Leonardo da Vinci’s « Mona Lisa », Louvre, Paris.

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Audio on this website

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ARTKAREL AUDIO GUIDE: short note before starting your visit at the Louvre

Karel Vereycken, short note before starting your visit.

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  • To the audio on this website

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  • Index of articles dealing with art history and Renaissance studies on this website.

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ARTKAREL AUDIO GUIDE: The rigor of Mantegna’s crucifixion (Paris)

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LOUVRE AUDIO GUIDE: Rembrandt, sculptor of light

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