African Congo Kuba Mukenga Mask - Meaningful Materials (77)
ancientartpodcast.org/77 How do artists' choices of materials assign identity and meaning to works of art? How does meaning assign material? In this excerpt from one of my museum tours, I explore the...
5 Touko 20176min
Black Figure vs Red Figure Ancient Greek Vase Painting Techniques (76)
ancientartpodcast.org/76 In this excerpt from one of my museum tours, I discuss the techniques of Greek vase painting and the differences between the black-figure and red-figure styles. We also dip a...
22 Huhti 201710min
Chinese Tang Funerary Figurines - Coloring the Past (75)
ancientartpodcast.org/75 Why are the heads, crowns, and hands of magnificent Tang Dynasty Chinese tomb figurines so startlingly bare compared to their brilliantly colored bodies? This is an excerpt f...
15 Huhti 20173min
Etruscan Gigantomachy, Gods vs Giants - Coloring the Past (74)
ancientartpodcast.org/74 We examine the use of color in ancient art to designate role, status, nature, and more, and discuss causes for the disappearance of polychromy in ancient art. Side note: Why ...
7 Huhti 20176min
Zeuxis and Parrhasius, Pliny the Elder, Roman Painting - Coloring the Past (73)
ancientartpodcast.org/73 Pliny the Elder shares with us the tale of dueling artists Zeuxis and Parrhasius as they battled for the title of who could paint a more beguilingly realistic trompe-l'oeil (...
31 Maalis 20172min
Tinted Venus - Painted Aphrodite - Coloring the Past (72)
ancientartpodcast.org/72 Many sculptural works from the ancient world were once beautifully colored. This is an excerpt of my gallery talk "Coloring the Past" in the Art Institute of Chicago from Mar...
24 Maalis 20174min
Cycladic Female Figure - Coloring the Past (71)
ancientartpodcast.org/71 Many sculptural works from the ancient world were once beautifully colored. This is an excerpt of my gallery talk "Coloring the Past" in the Art Institute of Chicago from Mar...
17 Maalis 20176min
70: Drinking along the Silk Road: Wine in China
ancientartpodcast.org/70 We dig up the dirt on vines and wines in China's Tang dynasty and beyond, explore the wares of our Central Asian caravan, marvel at the magnificent horses of the Fergana Vall...
3 Joulu 201619min
