Painting
The Essay. Behold the Man, The Crucifixion by the Master of Delft. Audio, 14 minutes
At the National Gallery, writer Sheila Hayman views a life-affirming Crucifixion scene.
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The Essay. Behold the Man, Christ as the Man of Sorrows by Jacobello del Bonomo. Audio, 14 minutes
At the National Gallery, Muslim journalist Abdul-Rehman Malik discovers a brown Christ.
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The Creation of an Icon. Halos. Audio, 14 minutes
Iconographer Aidan Hart puts the finishing touches to his icon.
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The Creation of an Icon. Shining with Divine Splendour. Audio, 14 minutes
Aidan Hart explains how to use paint to create divine light.
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The Creation of an Icon. Holy Perspectives. Audio, 14 minutes
Iconographer Aidan Hart explains the strange perspectives of the icon.
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The Creation of an Icon. Symbolism of Paint. Audio, 14 minutes
Aidan Hart explains the significance of colour as he paints an icon.
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The Creation of an Icon. Doors Between Two Worlds. Audio, 14 minutes
World-renowned iconographer Aidan Hart paints an icon of the angel Gabriel and Mary.
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Art of Living. Lucy Jones, Painter. Audio, 28 minutes
Tom Shakespeare on artist Lucy Jones.
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The Boring Talks. #27 - Dutch Landscape Paintings. Audio, 18 minutes
The writer Andrew Male enjoys the dull nature of 17th Century Dutch landscape paintings.
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Arts & Ideas. Designing the future. Audio, 44 minutes
Shahidha Bari looks at Enid Marx, Rennie Mackintosh and Edward Bawden and visits the V&A.
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American Art: From the Outside In. Audio, 28 minutes
How African-American self-taught artists are gaining recognition in American institutions.
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Arts & Ideas. British New Wave Films of the '60s. Audio, 46 minutes
Matthew Sweet on the legacy of the film company behind A Taste of Honey and The Knack.
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My Petsaurus. Series 1, Painting. Video, 2 minutes
Chloe is busy painting a picture. Topsy is bored and decides to help.
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The Essay. True Venetian, Import/Export. Audio, 14 minutes
Polly Coles discusses Venice and ideas of flight, exile, discrimination and art.
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Blue Canvas : The Artist Miles Davis. Audio, 30 minutes
A musical portrait of how the jazz trumpeter Miles Davis became a painter in later life.
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The Essay. Listener, They Wore It, James Whistler's Symphony in White, No 1. Audio, 14 minutes
Art historian James Fox describes an intriguing 1860s painting of a girl in a white dress.
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The Essay. Art in a Cold Climate, Art in a Cold Climate: Ray Hudson on Touching Fire by Carolyn Reed. Audio, 15 minutes
Ray Hudson on Carolyn Reed's Touching Fire and the US state of Alaska.
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The Essay. Art in a Cold Climate, Art in a Cold Climate: Hallgrimur Helgason on Fish Processing in Eyjafjord by Kristin Jonsdottir. Audio, 15 minutes
Hallgrimur Helgason on Kristin Jonsdottir's Fish Processing in Eyjafjord and Iceland.
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The Essay. Art in a Cold Climate, Art in a Cold Climate: Elizabeth Hay on Painting Place III by David Milne. Audio, 15 minutes
Novelist Elizabeth Hay on David Milne's Painting Place III and Canada.
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The Essay. A Short History of Indian Art, The Delhi Book. Audio, 15 minutes
Exploring the Delhi Book, an album containing paintings of 19th-century Delhi.
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