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

 

ARTKAREL AUDIO GUIDE: Cimabue, Giotto, Fra Angelico; Wonders of the Italian Trecento (Paris)

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ARTKAREL AUDIO GUIDE: Why Vermeer was hiding his convictions (Paris)

Karel Vereycken, analyzing Johannes Vermeer masterwork, « The Astronomer », Louvre, Paris.

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ARTKAREL AUDIO GUIDE: Ghirlandaio’s immortality

Karel Vereycken commenting on Ghirlandaio’s painting titled « The Old Man and the Boy », Louvre, Paris.

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ARTKAREL AUDIO GUIDE: Why Leonardo didn’t like painting (Paris)

Karel Vereycken, analyzing four major works of Leonardo da Vinci in the Louvre: « Saint-John the Baptist », « The Virgin on the Rocks », the « Belle Ferronière » and « Saint Anna and the Virgin ».

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ARTKAREL AUDIO GUIDE: How Bosch’s Ship of Fools drove the Jester out of business (Paris)

Bosh was no fool at all.

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ARTKAREL AUDIO GUIDE: Why Erasmus had no time to pause for portraits (Paris)

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ARTKAREL AUDIO GUIDE : Van der Weyden and Cusanus

Cusanus and Van der Weyden.

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ARTKAREL AUDIO GUIDE: The Greek tradition behind the Fayum Mummy Portraits (Paris)

Karel Vereycken comments the Louvre’s Fayum Mummy Portraits.

Fayum Mommy Paintings

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LOUVRE AUDIO GUIDE: Who whispered in the Ear of Joan of Arc?

Joan of Arc hearing voices, sculpture by François Rude, 1852, Louvre.

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LOUVRE AUDIO GUIDE: Leonardo and Verrochio’s workshop

Louvre Audio Verrocchio
Terracotta of « flying angels » (1475), attributed to Verrocchio’s workshop.

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