How Art Works
Claim This Podcastby Amanda Brighton Payne
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<p>Join Amanda Payne, artist and historian, in a deep dive into art — how it’s made, who makes it, and what we get out of it. From pigments to painting techniques to the clues found in portraiture, from monumental public sculptures to carved miniatures, in each episode we delve into the mysteries of art and the motivation of the artists that create it.</p>
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December 1, 2023
Women in Black
<figure class=" sqs-block-image-figure intrinsic " > <img data-stretch="false" data-image="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d55e9954943bb000121f58d/df463834-b45f-421b-99de-4cee876b4ab3/Screen+Shot+2022-11-13+at+4.03.35+PM.png" data-image-dimensions="1642x1086" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" alt="" data-load="false" elementtiming="system-image-block" src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d55e9954943bb000121f58d/df463834-b45f-421b-99de-4cee876b4ab3/Screen+Shot+2022-11-13+at+4.03.35+PM.png?format=1000w" width="1642" height="1086" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, (max-width: 767px) 25vw, 25vw" onload="this.classList.add("loaded")" srcset="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d55e9954943bb000121f58d/df463834-b45f-421b-99de-4cee876b4ab3/Screen+Shot+2022-11-13+at+4.03.35+PM.png?format=100w 100w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d55e9954943bb000121f58d/df463834-b45f-421b-99de-4cee876b4ab3/Screen+Shot+2022-11-13+at+4.03.35+PM.png?format=300w 300w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d55e9954943bb000121f58d/df463834-b45f-421b-99de-4cee876b4ab3/Screen+Shot+2022-11-13+at+4.03.35+PM.png?format=500w 500w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d55e9954943bb000121f58d/df463834-b45f-421b-99de-4cee876b4ab3/Screen+Shot+2022-11-13+at+4.03.35+PM.png?format=750w 750w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d55e9954943bb000121f58d/df463834-b45f-421b-99de-4cee876b4ab3/Screen+Shot+2022-11-13+at+4.03.35+PM.png?format=1000w 1000w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d55e9954943bb000121f58d/df463834-b45f-421b-99de-4cee876b4ab3/Screen+Shot+2022-11-13+at+4.03.35+PM.png?format=1500w 1500w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d55e9954943bb000121f58d/df463834-b45f-421b-99de-4cee876b4ab3/Screen+Shot+2022-11-13+at+4.03.35+PM.png?format=2500w 2500w" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-loader="sqs"> <figcaption class="image-caption-wrapper"> <p class="">Detail of Christina’s hands. From Holbein’s 1538 portrait.</p> </figcaption> </figure> <p class="">Leonardo da Vinci lived from 1452 to 1519 (which means he was born about fifty years after the writing of <em>Sir Gawain and the Green Knight</em>).</p><p class="">Hans Holbein the Younger (his father was the Elder) lived from 1497/8 - 1543, a few years before Henry the Eighth died in 1547.</p><p class="">Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres was born in 1780 and died in 1867 (the year of Canada’s founding, apart from other things).</p> <figure class=" sqs-block-image-figure intrinsic " > <img data-stretch="false" data-image="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d55e9954943bb000121f58d/05e463fd-4ea5-4b8d-b8b6-ae626b0fb086/Screen+Shot+2022-11-15+at+6.57.20+PM.png" data-image-dimensions="538x1056" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" alt="" data-load="false" elementtiming="system-image-block" src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d55e9954943bb000121f58d/05e463fd-4ea5-4b8d-b8b6-ae626b0fb086/Screen+Shot+2022-11-15+at+6.57.20+PM.png?format=1000w" width="538" height="1056" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, (max-width: 767px) 75vw, 75vw" onload="this.classList.add("loaded")" srcset="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d55e9954943bb000121f58d/05e463fd-4ea5-4b8d-b8b6-ae626b0fb086/Screen+Shot+2022-11-15+at+6.57.20+PM.png?format=100w 100w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d55e9954943bb000121f58d/05e463fd-4ea5-4b8d-b8b6-ae626b0fb086/Screen+Shot+2022-11-15+at+6.57.20+PM.png?format=300w 300w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d55e9954943bb000121f58d/05e463fd-4ea5-4b8d-b8b6-ae626b0fb086/Screen+Shot+2022-11-15+at+6.57.20+PM.png?format=500w 500w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d55e9954943bb000121f58d/05e463fd-4ea5-4b8d-b8b6-ae626b0fb086/Screen+Shot+2022-11-15+at+6.57.20+PM.png?format=750w 750w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d55e9954943bb000121f58d/05e463fd-4ea5-4b8d-b8b6-ae626b0fb086/Screen+Shot+2022-11-15+at+6.57.20+PM.png?format=1000w 1000w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d55e9954943bb000121f58d/05e463fd-4ea5-4b8d-b8b6-ae626b0fb086/Screen+Shot+2022-11-15+at+6.57.20+PM.png?format=1500w 1500w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d55e9954943bb000121f58d/05e463fd-4ea5-4b8d-b8b6-ae626b0fb086/Screen+Shot+2022-11-15+at+6.57.20+PM.png?format=2500w 2500w" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-loader="sqs"> <figcaption class="image-caption-wrapper"> <p class="">Christina of Denmark, Holbein 1538, in the National Gallery, London</p> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class=" sqs-block-image-figure intrinsic " > <img data-stretch="false" data-image="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d55e9954943bb000121f58d/18dc02ea-5766-45ee-ada8-6442b7def8da/Screen+Shot+2022-11-15+at+12.20.52+PM.png" data-image-dimensions="770x960" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" alt="" data-load="false" elementtiming="system-image-block" src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d55e9954943bb000121f58d/18dc02ea-5766-45ee-ada8-6442b7def8da/Screen+Shot+2022-11-15+at+12.20.52+PM.png?format=1000w" width="770" height="960" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, (max-width: 767px) 75vw, 75vw" onload="this.classList.add("loaded")" srcset="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d55e9954943bb000121f58d/18dc02ea-5766-45ee-ada8-6442b7def8da/Screen+Shot+2022-11-15+at+12.20.52+PM.png?format=100w 100w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d55e9954943bb000121f58d/18dc02ea-5766-45ee-ada8-6442b7def8da/Screen+Shot+2022-11-15+at+12.20.52+PM.png?format=300w 300w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d55e9954943bb000121f58d/18dc02ea-5766-45ee-ada8-6442b7def8da/Screen+Shot+2022-11-15+at+12.20.52+PM.png?format=500w 500w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d55e9954943bb000121f58d/18dc02ea-5766-45ee-ada8-6442b7def8da/Screen+Shot+2022-11-15+at+12.20.52+PM.png?format=750w 750w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d55e9954943bb000121f58d/18dc02ea-5766-45ee-ada8-6442b7def8da/Screen+Shot+2022-11-15+at+12.20.52+PM.png?format=1000w 1000w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d55e9954943bb000121f58d/18dc02ea-5766-45ee-ada8-6442b7def8da/Screen+Shot+2022-11-15+at+12.20.52+PM.png?format=1500w 1500w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d55e9954943bb000121f58d/18dc02ea-5766-45ee-ada8-6442b7def8da/Screen+Shot+2022-11-15+at+12.20.52+PM.png?format=2500w 2500w" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-loader="sqs"> <figcaption class="image-caption-wrapper"> <p class="">Mademoiselle Jeanne Gonin, Ingres, 1821. In the Taft Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio.</p> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class=" sqs-block-image-figure intrinsic " > <img data-stretch="false" data-image="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d55e9954943bb000121f58d/801887ca-b6a4-4665-a444-55aa5ca45b90/Screen+Shot+2022-11-15+at+7.04.25+PM.png" data-image-dimensions="798x1174" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" alt="" data-load="false" elementtiming="system-image-block" src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d55e9954943bb000121f58d/801887ca-b6a4-4665-a444-55aa5ca45b90/Screen+Shot+2022-11-15+at+7.04.25+PM.png?format=1000w" width="798" height="1174" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, (max-width: 767px) 75vw, 75vw" onload="this.classList.add("loaded")" srcset="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d55e9954943bb000121f58d/801887ca-b6a4-4665-a444-55aa5ca45b90/Screen+Shot+2022-11-15+at+7.04.25+PM.png?format=100w 100w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d55e9954943bb000121f58d/801887ca-b6a4-4665-a444-55aa5ca45b90/Screen+Shot+2022-11-15+at+7.04.25+PM.png?format=300w 300w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d55e9954943bb000121f58d/801887ca-b6a4-4665-a444-55aa5ca45b90/Screen+Shot+2022-11-15+at+7.04.25+PM.png?format=500w 500w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d55e9954943bb000121f58d/801887ca-b6a4-4665-a444-55aa5ca45b90/Screen+Shot+2022-11-15+at+7.04.25+PM.png?format=750w 750w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d55e9954943bb000121f58d/801887ca-b6a4-4665-a444-55aa5ca45b90/Screen+Shot+2022-11-15+at+7.04.25+PM.png?format=1000w 1000w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d55e9954943bb000121f58d/801887ca-b6a4-4665-a444-55aa5ca45b90/Screen+Shot+2022-11-15+at+7.04.25+PM.png?format=1500w 1500w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d55e9954943bb000121f58d/801887ca-b6a4-4665-a444-55aa5ca45b90/Screen+Shot+2022-11-15+at+7.04.25+PM.png?format=2500w 2500w" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-loader="sqs"> <figcaption class="image-caption-wrapper"> <p class="">Madame Moitessier, aged about 30, by Ingres, 1851.</p> </figcaption> </figure> <p class="">Three paintings, three portraits of women dressed in black. The Mona Lisa, Christina of Denmark, and Madame Moitessier. The first by Leonardo, with a date of no later than 1519; the second by Hans Holbein in 1538; the third by Ingres, more than three centuries after the Mona Lisa, in 1851. What do they have in common, what makes them so compelling, and why are we looking at them today? Have a listen. It’s an interesting story….</p> <figure class="block-animation-none"> <blockquote data-animation-role="quote" > <span>“</span>Belle et bonne.<span>”</span> </blockquote> <figcaption class="source">— Ingres on Madame Moitessier</figcaption> </figure> <p class=""><strong>Notes</strong></p><p class="">MONA LISA:</p><p class="">Sandra Šustić, “Paint handling in Leonardo’s Mona Lisa: guides to a reconstruction,”</p><p class="">https://journals.openedition.org/ceroart/3828#tocto1n1</p><p class="">“ ‘Mona Lisa’ The Best-Known Girl in the Whole Wide World,” Donald Sassoon (<em>History Workshop Journal</em>, Spring 2001, Oxford University Press, pp. 1-18).</p><p class="">Robert Browning quotation: “Mona Lisa,” Lionel Cust, <em>The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs</em>, Vol. 28, No. 151 (Oct., 1915), pp. 29-31 (quotation is on p. 29).</p><p class="">Vasari “never having laid eyes on”, & the quotation of Cassiano del Pozzo: Kenneth Clarke, p. 145: “Mona Lisa,” <em>The Burlington Magazine</em>, Vol. 115, No. 840 (Mar., 1973), pp. 144-151.</p><p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" class=""></p><p class="">CHRISTINA OF DENMARK:</p><p class="">Susan Foister, <em>Holbein and England</em> (Yale University Press, 2004).</p><p class="">Christina of Denmark, Holbein, 1538. Talk by Dr Susan Foister, National Gallery (UK):</p><p class="">https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/hans-holbein-the-younger-christina-of-denmark-duchess-of-milan</p><p class="">Imitation Portrait of Christina of Denmark:</p><p class=""><a href="https://www.rct.uk/collection/403449/princess-christina-of-denmark-1522-90-daughter-of-christian-ii-king-of-denmark">https://www.rct.uk/collection/403449/princess-christina-of-denmark-1522-90-daughter-of-christian-ii-king-of-denmark</a></p><p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" class=""></p><p class="">MADAME MOITESSIER, Numbers 1 and 2, and Mademoiselle Jeanne Gonin:</p><p class="">Aileen Ribeiro, <em>Ingres In Fashion</em> (Yale University Press, 1999).</p><p class="">Ingres: Moitessier sitting ‘chintz’ portrait (1844-1856): <a href="https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/jean-auguste-dominique-ingres-madame-moitessier">https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/jean-auguste-dominique-ingres-madame-moitessier</a></p><p class="">Ingres: Moitessier standing ‘black’ portrait (1851): https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.32696.html</p><p class="">Ingres: Mademoiselle Jeanne Gonin, in the Taft Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio. <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki</a> File:Ingres_Mademoiselle_Jeanne_Suzanne_Catherine_Gonin.jpg</p>
September 7, 2022
Egyptian Mummy Portraits
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AD 55-70</a>, British Museum. (Museum no. EA74716.)<br>https://amandabrightonpayne.com/how-art-works/egyptian-mummy-portraits</p><p class=""><strong><em>Show Notes: </em></strong></p><p class="">2022 has been a big year so far for Egypt, with the spotlight on treasures and discoveries, new and old. It’s the centennial of Howard Carter’s discovery of King Tutankhamun’s tomb, and the bicentennial of Jean-François Champollion’s decipherment of hieroglyphs, using the three-language cheat sheet known as the Rosetta Stone. This year, there have also been fabulous archaeological finds, including hundreds of intricately painted coffins in Saqqara, and a kind of lost city near Luxor, the site of Tut’s tomb. But in this episode we’ll be talking about something in its own way just as wonderful, and that is the thousand or more portraits attached to mummies in the first centuries of the Common Era, known as <strong>mummy portraits</strong>. It helps if you have visuals, so please have a look at the websites linked below to see examples. Interested readers can also peruse the books listed, as well. I also recommend visiting <a href="https://www.ucl.ac.uk/culture/petrie-museum">The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology</a>, London.</p><p class=""><strong><em>Key terms: </em></strong></p><p class="">Mummies: cartonnage/cartonage, bodyfield<br> Jewellery types: Medusa (local talisman), bulla (talisman for boys)<br> Painting types: tempera, encaustic<br> Physical traits: trachoma (eye condition), Morton’s toe<br> Tilia species = ‘lime’ or linden trees<br> Technology: CT scan = computed tomography. More modern term than CAT scan (computed axial tomography). <em>Tomos </em>is Greek for a cut or slice. Tomography ‘slices’ through objects in order to form images of them, top to bottom and end to end. </p><p class=""><strong><em>Links for visuals</em></strong>:<br><strong>Art Institute of Chicago portrait and detailed description</strong>: https://publications.artic.edu/roman/reader/romanart/section/1966 </p><p class=""><strong>Female mummy portrait</strong>: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA74706 </p><p class=""><strong>Herakleides mummy</strong>: https://www.getty.edu/news/meet-the-portrait-mummy-of-herakleides/<br> The caption says that he was identified in Greek as ‘son of Thermos,’ but the book below suggests that it could have been a female name, i.e. his mother. </p><p class=""><strong>Boy’s part-shaven hairstyle: </strong></p><p class="">https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2000/mummy-portraits/photo-gallery </p> <figure class=" sqs-block-image-figure intrinsic " > <img data-stretch="false" data-image="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d55e9954943bb000121f58d/406dc6fb-54b2-45f5-a7fb-f894bd34fa3f/Woman+mummy+portrait%2C+British+Museum.png" data-image-dimensions="552x1114" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" alt="" data-load="false" elementtiming="system-image-block" src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d55e9954943bb000121f58d/406dc6fb-54b2-45f5-a7fb-f894bd34fa3f/Woman+mummy+portrait%2C+British+Museum.png?format=1000w" width="552" height="1114" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, (max-width: 767px) 100vw, 100vw" onload="this.classList.add("loaded")" srcset="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d55e9954943bb000121f58d/406dc6fb-54b2-45f5-a7fb-f894bd34fa3f/Woman+mummy+portrait%2C+British+Museum.png?format=100w 100w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d55e9954943bb000121f58d/406dc6fb-54b2-45f5-a7fb-f894bd34fa3f/Woman+mummy+portrait%2C+British+Museum.png?format=300w 300w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d55e9954943bb000121f58d/406dc6fb-54b2-45f5-a7fb-f894bd34fa3f/Woman+mummy+portrait%2C+British+Museum.png?format=500w 500w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d55e9954943bb000121f58d/406dc6fb-54b2-45f5-a7fb-f894bd34fa3f/Woman+mummy+portrait%2C+British+Museum.png?format=750w 750w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d55e9954943bb000121f58d/406dc6fb-54b2-45f5-a7fb-f894bd34fa3f/Woman+mummy+portrait%2C+British+Museum.png?format=1000w 1000w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d55e9954943bb000121f58d/406dc6fb-54b2-45f5-a7fb-f894bd34fa3f/Woman+mummy+portrait%2C+British+Museum.png?format=1500w 1500w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d55e9954943bb000121f58d/406dc6fb-54b2-45f5-a7fb-f894bd34fa3f/Woman+mummy+portrait%2C+British+Museum.png?format=2500w 2500w" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-loader="sqs"> <figcaption class="image-caption-wrapper"> <p class="">I didn’t mention it in the podcast, but this lady does have a delicate gilt wreath painted at the very top of her head. A beautiful finishing touch, and symbolically important for her transferral to the divine from the earthly realm. </p> </figcaption> </figure> <p class=""><strong><em>Bibliography</em></strong><em>:<br> Mummy Portraits from Ancient Egypt</em>, Paul Roberts (The British Museum, 2007). </p><p class=""><em>Herakleides: A Portrait Mummy from Roman Egypt</em>, Lorelei H. Corcoran and Marie Svoboda (J. Paul Getty Trust, 2010). </p><p class=""><em>Portrait of a Child: Historical and Scientific Studies of a Roman Egyptian Mummy. </em>Essi Rönkkö, Taco Terpsta, Marc Walton, eds (Block Museum of Art, Northwestern U., 2019). </p><p class="">‘Facing the Dead: Recent Reseach on the Funerary Art of Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt’, Christina Riggs, <em>American Journal of Archaeology</em>, Jan. 2002, pp. 85-101. </p><p class=""><em>Leonardo’s Nephew: Essays on Art and Artists, </em>James Fenton (University of Chicago Press, 2000). </p>
May 5, 2022
At Home With the Nelthorpes
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