Painting of the Week Podcast
By: Seventh Art Productions
Language: en-us
Categories: Arts, Visual, Society, Culture
Film Director Phil Grabsky and art-lover Laura Bentham meet each week to talk about paintings that inspire or excite them. Listen to their ‘Painting of the Week’ and explore some of the world’s most amazing art. For more information and to see the artwork being discussed please visit www.seventh-art.com/podcast
Episodes
Season 7 ep. 1: Whistler, Whistler’s Mother
Jan 09, 2026It’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 technical skill and its touching depiction of dignity in old age, and fascinating thanks to the artist himself...
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Duration: 00:29:11Christmas Special 2025
Dec 19, 2025Laura and Phil get into the Christmas spirit by seeking out festive artworks and having a giggle along the way. What artworks does your Christmas lunch make you think of? You may be surprised at Laura and Phil’s choices...
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Duration: 00:44:41Season 6 Ep 10: Caravaggio, Conversion of Saint Paul
Oct 16, 2025Finishing season 6 off on a high, we have special guest David Bickerstaff - co-director of Exhibition on Screen’s ‘Caravaggio’ - exploring the true nature of the artist behind the ‘Bad Boy of Baroque’ persona...
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Duration: 00:32:33Season 6 Ep 9: Georges Seurat, Bathers at Asnières
Oct 09, 2025Painted 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...
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Duration: 00:31:33Season 6 Ep 8: Dora Carrington, Farmhouse at Waternlath
Oct 02, 2025This 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 hidden story of the Bloomsbury Group icon who created it...
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Duration: 00:31:59Season 6 Ep 7: Zdeněk Dvořák, Czech Tradition
Sep 19, 2025This visceral photograph of a butcher at work, chosen by special guest World Food Photography Awards founder Caroline Kenyon, brings up issues surrounding the importance of food in preserving cultural heritage...
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Duration: 00:27:34Season 6 Ep 6: Henri Matisse, Woman Reading at a Yellow Table
Sep 11, 2025In this episode, Phil and Laura talk to Christopher Gorham, author of the fascinating new book ‘Matisse and Art Under the Nazis’, and explore how Matisse and other artists of the time navigated the occupation, avoiding arrest whilst using art to express disgust for the horrors unfurling around them...
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Duration: 00:29:16Season 6 Ep 5: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, La Chaîne Simpson
Sep 04, 2025Two icons of French culture come together in this week’s artwork – Toulouse-Lautrec and the bicycle! Known for his ability to capture the bohemian lifestyle of late 19th-century Paris, Toulouse-Lautrec's dynamic poster design showcases famous French cyclists Constant Huret and Lisette Marton battling it out at the Vélodrome de la Seine...
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Duration: 00:32:06Season 6 Ep 4: Artemesia Gentileschi, Self Portrait as Saint Catherine
Aug 28, 2025This episode examines Artemesia’s powerful self-portrait and the heartbreaking, inspirational story of survival behind it - with special guest Asia Graziano, author of ‘Artemesia Gentileschi’ for leading art publisher Scripta Maneant...
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Duration: 00:34:44Season 6 Ep 3: Keith Pettit, Cabriole
Aug 21, 2025This week’s episode features a fascinating sculpture carved from ‘Bog Oak’, preserved for nearly 6,000 years in a Sussex peat bog being transformed into a ballet dancer mid-leap...
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Duration: 01:00:24Season 6, Ep.2: J M W Turner, The Lake, Petworth: Sunset, Fighting Bucks at Petworth
Aug 15, 2025J. M. W. Turner, The Lake, Petworth: Sunset, Fighting Bucks at Petworth
Recorded on site at Petworth House, West Sussex with curator Dr. Emily Knight, this episode looks at the Turner work which lives in the fabulous ‘Carved Room’ depicting Petworth’s stunning grounds. Join Phil and Laura as they explore the house, the art and Turner’s link to the area...
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Duration: 00:38:39Season 6, Ep.1: Leonardo da Vinci, The Last Supper
Aug 07, 2025Kicking 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, Phil & Laura delve into the fascinating layers of meaning and mastery in this iconic work.
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Duration: 00:39:36Season 5, Ep.11: Tibetan Wheel of Life Thangka
Feb 18, 2025For the final episode of Season 5, Phil teams up with his brother Marc to examine his beautiful Christmas present, a stunning depiction of the Buddhist Wheel of Life which Marc brought back from his travels in Nepal...
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Duration: 00:26:23Season 5, Ep.10: Wood, Earth, Hoop by Walter Bailey
Feb 06, 2025In this week's episode, Phil & Laura talk to Mark Collins, art collector and owner of Artelium Wine Estate in Sussex to discuss a unique sculpture currently residing on their estate...
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Duration: 00:39:23Season 5, Ep.9: Orange, Red, Yellow by Mark Rothko
Jan 30, 2025A 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 million. Just what lies behind those famous, vibrant rectangles...
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Duration: 00:37:05Season 5, Ep.8: Genesis #9/18 by Alan Magee
Jan 24, 2025This 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 a very unique artwork, finished by a loom in Belgium thousands of miles from the artist who painted it...
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Duration: 00:27:22Season 5, Ep.6: Deep Forest by Emily Carr
Jan 21, 2025This week, Phil meets with senior curator Richard Hill from the Vancouver Art Gallery to discuss a moody and mysterious work by the matriarch of Canadian art...
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Duration: 00:31:00Season 5, Ep.7: The Haywain Tryptich by Hieronymus Bosch
Jan 16, 2025This week, Laura and Phil discuss the eternally bizarre and delightful Bosch, focusing on one of his fabulous triptychs, with this one telling the story of the Fall...
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Duration: 00:33:54Season 5, Ep.5: Starry Night over the Rhône by Van Gogh with Martin Bailey
Jan 02, 2025The new year kicks off with Phil revisiting Van Gogh’s romantic masterpiece – and the poster image for our smash hit documentary Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers – this time with world Van Gogh expert Martin Bailey at the National Gallery...
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Duration: 00:23:23Season 5, Ep.4: Christmas Special - The Monopoly Board, Lizzie Magie
Dec 24, 2024In this cosy Christmas special, Laura and Phil sit down with three times British Monopoly champion (and Phil’s brother) Mike and his long-suffering son Alex to discuss the remarkable artwork of the monopoly board over a mince pie or two...
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Duration: 00:45:00Season 5, Ep.3: Le Pont-Neuf by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Dec 19, 2024Phil 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 year on from one of the worst years in Parisian history...
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Duration: 00:22:13Season 5, Ep.2: Christ of Saint John of the Cross by Salvador Dalí
Dec 12, 2024In this episode, Phil & Laura look at Dali’s unique take on the crucifixion, supposedly inspired by what Dali called his “cosmic dream” of the universe...
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Duration: 00:30:45Season 5, Ep.1: Olive Grove, Saint-Rémy (1889) by Vincent van Gogh
Dec 05, 2024Season 5 begins in the warm and inviting olive groves around Saint Remy which Van Gogh painted repeatedly, fascinated as he was by the irregular growth and ever-changing colours...
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Duration: 00:45:31Season 4, Ep.10: Starry Night Over the Rhône by Vincent Van Gogh
Jun 27, 2024This 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 the themes of love, madness and beauty that have followed this beloved and troubled artist over the centuries...
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Duration: 00:36:38Season 4, Ep.9: Augustus of Prima Porta Statue - Vatican Museums
Jun 19, 2024Talk about good PR! This masterpiece by an unknown Greek artist depicts the first official emperor of Rome, Augustus, demonstrating his firm grasp of the importance of a carefully crafted public image in 20AD...
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Duration: 00:38:03Season 4, Ep.8: Colliers Unloading on Hove Beach by John Constable
Jun 13, 2024This week, Phil’s takes leading BBC radio presenter Danny Pike for a trip to the Brighton Pavilion to examine local legend John Constable’s stunning work depicting the seafront a stone’s throw from our office…
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Duration: 00:27:18Season 4, Ep.7: Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez
Jun 04, 2024This week, Phil and Laura discuss what has been repeatedly named one of the greatest paintings in history, the monumental ‘Las Meninas’ or ‘The Maids’ by the legendary Diego Velázquez...
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Duration: 00:34:29Season 4, Ep.6: Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando by Edgar Degas
May 30, 2024This week, co-directors of My National Gallery, London Ali Ray and Phil Grabsky discuss Ali’s favourite work in this world-renowned gallery, and just why it stuck out to her amongst this enormous collection of masterpieces...
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Duration: 00:28:49Season 4, Ep.5: Rain, Steam, and Speed by JMW Turner
May 20, 2024In this episode, Phil and Laura discuss the wonderfully dynamic Turner work which Michael Palin called his “science fiction painting” in My National Gallery, London...
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Duration: 00:30:42Season 4, Ep.4: The Virgin of the Rocks by Leonardo da Vinci
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Duration: 00:29:16Season 4, Ep.3: The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein the Younger
May 02, 2024This week's topic of discussion is Holbein’s masterpiece from one of the most important years in British history – 1533. This was the year that Henry VIII broke from the Catholic church, married Anne Boleyn and had a daughter who would become one of England’s most popular monarchs, Elizabeth I...
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Duration: 00:34:53Season 4, Ep.2: The AIDS Memorial Quilt with Yvonne Gilleece
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Duration: 00:30:19Season 4, Ep.1: Madame X by John Singer Sargent
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Duration: 00:29:56Christmas Special: Painting of the Year
Dec 19, 2023In this special Christmas episode, Phil and Laura pick their top 3 favourite paintings from a year full of masterpieces to discuss over Laura's homemade Christmas punch...
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Duration: 01:01:44Season 3, Ep.20, Gustav Klimt - Hermine Gallia
Sep 25, 2023On this episode of Painting of the Week, Phil & Laura discuss a Klimt work which sits right on the cusp of his drastic artistic transformation...
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Duration: 00:32:36Season 3, Ep.19: Ditchling War Memorial by Eric Gill
Sep 14, 2023Phil, Laura and special guest Janet Laurence explore a local work by a controversial artist Eric Gill, a terrible man with a wonderful talent, and debate whether you can separate the art from the artist...
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Duration: 00:30:15Season 3, Ep.18 Mohri Yuko - Moré Moré
Aug 14, 2023This episode explores a wildly different art style on the cutting edge of the Japanese avant-garde movement, as featured in our latest film’ Tokyo Stories’...
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Duration: 00:25:30Season 3, Ep 17: Georges de La Tour - Penitent Magdalen
Aug 03, 2023This moody, gothic painting was a clean break from the bombastic nature of the baroque style which dominated in the seventeenth century and brings the viewer into a quiet moment of intense contemplation with Mary Magdalene herself…
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Duration: 00:26:55Season 3, Ep 16: Wilfredo Lam - La Silla (The Chair)
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Duration: 00:23:32Season 3, ep.15: Charles Webster Hawthorne - The Boat Steerer
Jun 29, 2023This episode, recorded at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum with CEO Chris McCarthy, examines an evocative painting by one of the founders of the Cape Cod art colony, the oldest continuous art colony in the USA…
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Duration: 00:22:35Season 3, Ep 13: Egon Schiele - Seated Woman with Bent Knees
Jun 08, 2023This week's Painting of the Week explores a work which subverts the traditional beauty standard, bringing a sense of grittiness and discomfort into this erotically charged portrait of the artists' beautiful wife...
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Duration: 00:30:04Season 3 Ep.14: John Singer Sargent - El Jaleo
Jun 08, 2023This episode explores a dynamic masterpiece by the greatest portraitist of his time, John Singer Sargent, and his immersion into the "Hispanism" which gripped Europe at the end of the nineteenth century...
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Duration: 00:29:29Season 2, Ep. 12: Goya, The Duchess of Alba
Mar 10, 2023This week, Phil and Laura discuss Goya's portrait of a formidable young noble woman, recently widowed. Is there more to this portrait than meets the eye?
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Duration: 00:36:56Season 3, Ep.11: Albrecht Dürer, Great Piece of Turf
Mar 02, 2023This week Phil and Laura explore Albrecht Dürer's 'Great Piece of Turf' and what made this very pretty patch of lawn so ground-breaking in the 16th century...
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Duration: 00:33:28Season 3, Ep.10: Vermeer - Girl Reading a Letter by an Open Window
Feb 16, 2023In this very special episode Phil speaks to 'Girl With a Pearl Earring' author Tracy Chevalier from the Rijksmuseum's once-in-a-lifetime Vermeer exhibition. Phil and Tracy stand before a masterpiece and discuss it's surprising history...
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Duration: 00:20:28Season 3, Ep. 9: Caravaggio, The Calling of Saint Matthew
Jan 25, 2023Join Phil and Laura this week as they discuss Caravaggio's 'The Calling of Saint Matthew', a masterpiece that brings this pivotal biblical moment into the world of the 16th century...
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Duration: 00:35:15Season 3, Ep.8: Pieter de Hooch - Courtyard of a House in Delft
Jan 12, 2023In this episode, Phil and Laura explore this masterpiece from the Dutch Golden Age, uncovering the magic contained within this very normal visions of everyday life...
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Duration: 00:31:56Season 3, Ep. 7: Horace Pippin - Christmas Morning, Breakfast
Dec 21, 2022In today's festive episode, Phil and Laura focus on Horace Pippin's 'Christmas Morning, Breakfast' and the fascinating story of one of America's foremost black artists...
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Duration: 00:30:17Season 3, Ep.6: Rembrandt, The Jewish Bride
Nov 24, 2022For this episode, Phil and Laura discuss a mysterious masterpiece by Rembrandt...
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Duration: 00:29:27Season 3, Ep. 5: Renoir, Luncheon of the Boating Party
Nov 21, 2022This week Phil and Laura discuss one of their favourite paintings - Renoir's Luncheon of the Boating Party - and why its creator was such a controversial figure...
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Duration: 00:31:56Season 3, Ep. 4: William Meyerowitz, Gloucester Humoresque
Nov 02, 2022For this episode, Phil traveled to the wonderful Cape Ann Museum in New England while making 'Hopper: An American Love Story' and discussed William Meyerowitz's 'Gloucester Humoresque' with chief curator Martha Oakes.
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Duration: 00:23:15Season 3, Ep. 4: William Meyerowitz, Gloucester Humoresque
Oct 21, 2022Phil travels to the Cape Ann Museum in New England while making 'Hopper: An American Love Story' and discusses William Meyerowitz's 'Gloucester Humoresque' with chief curator Martha Oakes
Season 3, Ep. 3: Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog
Sep 29, 2022This week, we explore a painting that has become the archetypal image of the Romantic era and the Sublime…
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Duration: 00:31:56Season 3, Ep. 2: Rene Margritte, The Promenades of Euclid
Sep 09, 2022This week, Phil and Laura discuss a surrealist painting that plays with the idea of reality and perception...
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Duration: 00:31:24Season 3, Ep. 1: Dame Laura Knight, Ruby Loftus Screwing a Breech Ring
Aug 25, 2022Season 3 begins with Phil and Laura discussing an important wartime work which reveals much about the previously untapped skills of British women...
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Duration: 00:27:32Season 2, Ep. 20: Daybreak - Maxfield Parrish
Mar 28, 2022To celebrate the clocks going forward here in the U.K. and the return to 'British Summer time', this Painting of the Week is Maxfield Parrish's Daybreak - the most popular print of the twentieth century!
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Duration: 00:41:59Season 2, Ep. 19: Kiss of Judas - Giotto
Mar 22, 2022This week, Phil and Laura discuss one of Phil's favourite paintings to feature in the Exhibition on Screen film ‘Easter in Art’: Giotto’s Kiss of Judas.
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Duration: 00:36:21Season 2, Ep. 18: Railroad Gates - Jo Hopper, Edward Hopper
Mar 15, 2022This week, Phil and Hopper House curator Elizabeth Thompson Colleary discuss not one but two paintings, both entitled ‘Railroad Gates’ - one by Edward Hopper and one by his wife Jo - and uncover a fascinating story in the process…
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Duration: 00:34:10Season 2, Ep. 17: The Madonna del Parto - Piero della Francesca
Mar 08, 2022Painted in just seven working days, this extraordinary fresco only narrowly escaped total destruction in 1785…
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Duration: 00:30:49Season 2, Ep. 16: The Night Watch - Rembrandt
Mar 01, 2022This 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 fascinating history which includes being wrongfully identified as a night scene during the 19th century and multiple attempts at vandalism!
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Duration: 00:32:53Season 2, Ep. 15: The Two Fridas (1939) - Frida Kahlo
Feb 22, 2022On 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 icon Frida Kahlo and so, rather fittingly, this episode of Painting of the Week focuses on The Two Fridas, with special guest Ali Ray, the director of the upcoming film.
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Duration: 00:32:06Season 2, Ep. 14: The Room with a View - Duncan Grant
Feb 15, 2022In this episode, Phil & Laura journey to Charleston House in rural Sussex to explore an excellent Duncan Grant exhibition, selecting his fascinating ‘The Room with a View” to discuss, and, more broadly, the Bloomsbury Group and its remarkable cast of characters.
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Duration: 00:28:02Season 2, Ep. 13: Virgin and Child with Canon van der Paele (1434–1436) - Jan van Eyck
Feb 08, 2022This 1436 tomb decoration brings Jesus and the Virgin Mary into the contemporary world, and right in front of the man who commissioned the painting…
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Duration: 00:38:01Season 2, Ep. 12: Filtres a Cafe (91-S) - Kaixuan Feng
Feb 03, 2022In honour of Chinese New Year today, our #PaintingOfTheWeek is by Chinese artist Kaixuan Feng, who has trained in both traditional Chinese painting and contemporary art, bringing the two together in her unique series of beautifully decorated coffee filters…
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Duration: 00:30:10Season 2, Ep. 11: The Skating Minister (The Reverend Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch) - Henry Raeburn
Jan 25, 2022For this special Burns' Night edition of Painting of the Week, Phil & Laura are looking at an iconic and decidedly unusual Scottish painting by Sir Henry Raeburn (1756 - 1823) - his charming depiction of the Rev. Robert Walker gliding across Duddingston Loch on his skates…
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Duration: 00:34:31Season 2, Ep. 10: The Deposition from the Cross (altarpiece) - Jacopo Pontormo
Jan 18, 2022Sitting between High Renaissance and Baroque styles, this 16th century altarpiece from the Capponi Chapel in Florence brings together two of the most luxurious art periods in history…
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Duration: 00:40:52Season 2, Ep. 9: The Lady of Shalott - William Holman Hunt
Jan 11, 2022A 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 Shalott, an Alfred, Lord Tennysonpoem used with great enthusiasm by the Pre-Raphaelites.
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Duration: 00:34:12Season 2, Ep. 8: Great Bookcase - William Burges
Jan 04, 2022Worked on by fourteen leading nineteenth century artists and taking 3 years to complete, the stunning ‘Great Bookcase’ is so much more than a piece of furniture. Join Phil in his discussion with Matthew Winterbottom, Curator of Sculpture & Decorative Arts at the Ashmolean as they discuss one of the museum’s most intriguing pieces…
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Duration: 00:26:03Season 2, Ep. 7: The Bridge at Argenteuil - Alfred Sisley
Dec 28, 2021This week Phil and Laura take a look at The Bridge at Argenteuil, painted in 1872 by Impressionist Alfred Sisley. A prolific artist who painted numerous riverscapes and seascapes both in England and France…
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Duration: 00:34:36Season 2, Ep. 6: In The Loge - Mary Cassatt
Dec 14, 2021Listen 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 painting ‘In The Loge’, an exploration of the act of ‘looking’…
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Duration: 00:29:25Season 2, Ep. 5: The Gleaners - John Constable
Dec 07, 2021In 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) landscapes but this painting is Brighton on the south coast. Why was he there? What does the painting reveal?
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Duration: 00:36:24Season 2, Ep. 4: Dept Store Game - Utagawa Kunimasa IV
Nov 30, 2021An 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 game? Phil talks to Clare Pollard, Curator of Japanese Art at the Ashmolean.
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Duration: 00:24:59Season 2, Ep. 3: ‘Four Girls on a Bridge’ - Edvard Munch (1905)
Nov 23, 2021This painting by Edvard Munch depicts girls standing on a bridge wearing bright clothes and with a bright blue sky overhead, perhaps suggesting that it’s summer. However, the sketchy forms and puzzling nature of the figures suggest it is equally a depiction of Munch’s psychological state, a somewhat darker place.
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Duration: 00:33:44Season 2, Ep. 2: Portrait of John Ruskin - John Everett Millais
Nov 16, 2021This 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 their success was down to his efforts. Phil is joined this week by Matthew Winterbottom, Curator of Sculpture & Decorative Arts at The Ashmolean where the painting hangs…
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Duration: 00:11:26Season 2, Ep. 1: Going to the Match - L.S. Lowry
Nov 09, 2021In 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 industrial landscapes, the picture is a composite of the actual and the imagined…
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Duration: 00:36:31Season 1, Ep. 20: The Railway - Edouard Manet
Nov 04, 2021Painted in 1873, The Railway is the last painting by Manet of his favourite model, fellow painter Victorine Meurent. We see her sitting with a sleeping puppy, a fan, and an open book in her lap, while a little girl watches the white clouds of steam as a train passes beneath them. But actually, we are seeing far more than that…
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Duration: 00:40:02Season 1, Ep. 19: Triumphs of Caesar - Andrea Mantegna
Oct 25, 2021In this episode of the Painting of The Week Podcast, Laura and Phil take a look at 'Triumphs of Caesar' by Andrea Mantegna
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Duration: 00:37:11Season 1, Ep. 18: Portrait of Pope Innocent X (1650) - Diego Velázquez
Oct 18, 2021Painted by the extraordinary Spanish artist Diego Velázquez in Rome in 1650, Pope Innocent X considered this portrait to be ‘too true’… Laura and Phil take a closer look.
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Duration: 00:40:29Season 1, Ep. 17: Uneasy centre, 1963 - Bridget Riley
Oct 11, 2021Bridget 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 effects of optical phenomena. This week Phil and Laura look at Uneasy Centre from 1963… and somehow manage to mention the rock band Black Sabbath!
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Duration: 00:37:53Season 1, Ep. 16: Girl in a Boat, with Geese - Berthe Morisot
Oct 04, 2021Phil 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 a boat, with geese standing on the edge of a river… or does it? Time to take a closer look…
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Duration: 00:45:40Season 1, Ep. 15: Money Art - Shamsia Hassani
Sep 06, 2021In 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 first female graffiti artist of Afghanistan. Through her artworks, Shamsia portrays Afghan women in a male dominant society.
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Duration: 00:38:18Season 1, Ep. 14: The Alexander Mosaic
Aug 30, 2021A 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 in Naples. Phil & Laura take a closer look at both the history and the art…
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Duration: 00:43:08Season 1, Ep. 13: Girl with a Pearl Earring - Johannes Vermeer
Aug 23, 2021Created by Johannes Vermeer in 1665, this painting is among the most popular ever painted. Phil and Laura look a little closer at this enigmatic portrait to try to understand why that is...
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Duration: 00:42:45Season 1, Ep. 12: The Snail - Henri Matisse
Aug 16, 2021This 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 health… His materials? Coloured paper and a large pair of scissors. The result: for many, a masterpiece.
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Duration: 00:42:10Season 1, Ep. 11: People in the Sun - Edward Hopper
Aug 09, 2021Among the greatest of all American painters, Hopper frequently focusses on humans in different forms of isolation. His People in the Sun may seem to be 5 men and women happily sun-bathing – but look again…
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Duration: 00:40:27Season 1, Ep. 10: Mrs Acton in Delhi - Howard Hodgkin
Aug 02, 2021Hodgkin was one of Britain’s foremost contemporary painters and is hugely popular. India was a place very close to his heart, and the fascinating Mrs Acton in Delhi was painted there between 1967 – 71.
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Duration: 00:46:37Season 1, Ep. 9: The Hunters in the Snow - Pieter Bruegel
Jul 28, 2021The 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 returning from what appears to be an unsuccessful trip…
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Duration: 00:36:36Season 1, Ep. 8: Portrait of the Journalist Sylvia von Harden - Otto Dix
Jul 21, 2021This 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 must! You are representative of an entire epoch!’…
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Duration: 00:37:46Season 1, Ep. 7: The Descent from the Cross - Peter Paul Rubens
Jul 14, 2021This masterpiece, painted by Rubens in 1612-1614 for Antwerp Cathedral is this week’s Painting Of The Week. What makes it so famous? Phil & Laura take a closer look…
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Duration: 00:40:08Season 1, Ep. 6: Les Demoiselles d'Avignon - Picasso
Jul 07, 2021The 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 Paris. Some adore it – some don’t.
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Duration: 00:53:53Season 1, Ep. 5: Train Landscape - Eric Ravilious
Jun 30, 2021Eric 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 window of a train carriage...
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Duration: 00:40:44Season 1, Ep. 4: The Death of Marat - Jacques-Louis David
Jun 23, 2021The 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 famous images of the French Revolution…
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Duration: 00:36:15Season 1, Ep. 3: The Two Fridas - Frida Kahlo
Jun 23, 2021Frida Kahlo’s painting The Two Fridas is the subject of this episode of Painting of the Week. It was completed shortly after her divorce and shows two very different personalities…
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Duration: 00:48:48Season 1, Ep. 2: Sunflowers - Claude Monet
Jun 23, 2021In this episode we explore Monet’s Bouquet of Sunflowers, painted in 1881. A work that was revered by critics and artists alike, and was the inspiration for Van Gogh’s later sunflower paintings.
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Duration: 00:40:39Season 1, Ep. 1: The Fighting Temeraire - J. M. W. Turner
Jun 23, 2021Welcome to the first episode of our Painting of the Week podcast! In this episode Phil and Laura look at Turner’s The Fighting Temeraire, which was once voted ‘The Greatest Painting in Britain’.
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