Listen "Vittore Carpaccio: Virgin Reading"
Episode Synopsis
Our next stop is Carpaccio’s “Virgin Reading.” We discover a hidden Jesus, a still-unsolved art mystery, and how Carpaccio broke the rules in his unusual depiction of the Virgin Mary. Check out the episode at alonglookpodcast.com to see the images mentioned. SHOW NOTES “A Long Look” theme is “Ascension” by Ron Gelinas https://youtu.be/jGEdNSNkZoo Episode music is “Goldberg Variations, BWV. 988 - Variation 12. Canon on the fourth.” Performed by Shelley Katz. Courtesy of musopen.org. https://musopen.org/music/4107-goldberg-variations-bwv-988/ Virgin Reading info https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.498.html Italian Paintings of the Fifteenth Century by Boskovits, Miklós., and David Alan Brown. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 2003. Exhibition information https://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2022/carpaccio-renaissance-venice.html Vittore Carpaccio: Master Storyteller of Renaissance Venice by Peter Humphrey et al. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022. X-radiography http://www.fineartconservation.ie/x-radiography-4-4-45.html Giorgione episode https://alonglookpodcast.com/the-adoration-of-the-shepherds-by-giorgione/ Post comments or questions at alonglookpodcast.com
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