Bonus Episode: Jennifer Dasal on "With a Side of Knowledge," from the University of Notre Dame

There are lots of questions that come up in every art history classroom. We hear them over and over again. What is art, really, and how can you define it? Why is the Mona Lisa smiling? What happened t...

26 Syys 201635min

Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, had an image problem: she was seen as frivolous, silly, and out-of-touch. In order to combat her poor press, the royal court commissioned a series of portraits of th...

12 Syys 201647min

Vincent Van Gogh's suicide is a huge part of the mythology surrounding him: as much as the famous tale of the cut-off ear is. This so-called "tortured genius," it is said, was so broken down by life a...

29 Elo 201654min

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10 Elo 201650min