A podcast that shares weird, wonderful, and inspiring stories from the world of art and culture. This is a show for the culturally curious listener. Join Zoe, a current PhD student in art history, as she explores the objects, places, and artists who facinate her.
Episode 3: Beyond the Glitter: Medical and Magical Medieval Gemstones
Tune in to this art history podcast episode hear from Zoe about the magical powers of medieval gemstones.
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Reference Links:
Brigitte Buettner, The Mineral and the Visual: Precious Stones in Medieval Secular Culture [https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-09250-8.html?srsltid=AfmBOoqOdd4Wt6tAxC7zSPRM_TSzi-YWNvp14dPqyP43FJM6Q1FJcwVl]
Albertus Magnus, On Minerals [https://ia600402.us.archive.org/20/items/308059821ALBERTUSMAGNUSTheBookOfMinerals/308059821-ALBERTUS-MAGNUS-The-Book-of-Minerals.pdf]
Marian Campbell, Medieval Jewellery: In Europe 1100-1500 [https://books.google.com/books/about/Medieval_Jewellery.html?id=ywBKAQAAIAAJ]
Cynthia Hahn. What Do Reliquaries Do for Relics? [https://www.jstor.org/stable/20789594]
Artwork: 6th century Byzantine gold bracelet adorned with various gemstones and pearls, currently part of the Toledo Museum of Art collection, Ohio, USA.
Music: "Sailing Away" by HoliznaCC0
Explore the world of medieval Chinese Buddhism through a close look at this sculpture of Guanyin in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Your host is a PhD student in art history who is facinated by the stories art objects can tell us.
Sources for this episode include: The Lotus Sutra, the Sutra on the Merit of Bathing the Buddha, Chün-fang Yü's Chinese Buddhism: A Thematic History, and James Robson's "The Buddhist Image Inside-Out: On the Placing of Objects Inside Statues in East Asia."
To see images of the sculpture visit https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1984.70 or find Meet Me at the Art Museum on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/art_history_podcast/] and Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100089922645769]
Music: "Sailing Away" by HoliznaCC0
30 Jan 2023
Introduction: The Fire Evacuation
In this episode of Meet Me at the Art Museum, podcast host Zoe shares her love for art and art history... a love that has stood the test of fire!
To see the images accompanying this episode, please visit https://www.instagram.com/art_history_podcast/
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Music: "Sailing Away" by HoliznaCC0
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