The Secret History of Art
Summary: THE SECRET HISTORY OF ART takes you on a series of private guided tours of the world's greatest artworks. Best-selling author and professor of art history Noah Charney presents the history, symbolism, and importance of each work. The Secret History of Art is a series of lessons in miniature on great works of art around the world. By spending just a few minutes per masterpiece, you can learn the mysteries, stories, and secrets of some of civilization’s greatest treasures.
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- Artist: Noah Charney
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Podcasts:
A Talk in benefit of Venice in Peril, at the Royal Geographic Society, London in April 2011. Introduction by John Julius Norwich. Part One.
In the latest edition of The Secret History of Art, professor of art history and best-selling author Noah Charney discusses the work of Elena del Rivero
In the latest edition of The Secret History of Art, professor of art history and best-selling author Noah Charney discusses Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain
Today's Secret History of Art podcast explores what is quite possibly the greatest painting ever made, Velazquez' masterpiece, "Las Meninas."
Since its completion in 1432, this twelve-panel oil painting has disappeared, been looted in three different wars, burned, dismembered, copied, forged, smuggled, illegally sold, painted over, censored, attacked by iconoclasts, hidden away, hunted by Nazis and Napoleon, prized by The Louvre and a Prussian king, damaged by conservators, returned as war reparations, stored in castle vaults and secret salt mines, used as a diplomatic tool, nearly been blown up, ransomed, rescued by Austrian double-agents, and stolen a total of thirteen times. This podcast introduces The Ghent Altarpiece by Jan van Eyck, the most victimized, and perhaps the most influential, painting in history.
