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Start the WeekThe story of British art - from cave paintings to landscapesWhile the great Italian renaissance painters and the Dutch masters are world famous, why are there so few British artists from this period leading the way? It’s one of the questions the art historian Bendor Grosvenor examines in his new history, The Invention of British Art. From prehistoric bone carvings to the landscapes of John Constable, Grosvenor reassesses the contribution British artists have made at home and abroad.The writer and former curator at the V&A Susan Owens wants to turn our attention to drawing. It is a simpler, more democratic form of art-making, she ar...2024-12-0241 min
Willy Willy Harry Stee...The Invention of British ArtIn this special episode, Charlie Higson indulges his fascination with British art. His guest is Bendor Grosvenor, the art historian, writer and former art dealer. As well as his sleuthing work discovering lost art treasures, he's also published a book called The Invention Of British Art. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2024-11-2248 min
Radio OldieOldie Literary Lunch Recording - Bendor Grosvenor on The Invention of British ArtListen and watch Bendor Grosvenor talking about The Invention of British Art at The Oldie Literary Lunch 12th November 2024.
The lunch was sponsored by Kirker Holidays. Photos by Neil Spence Photography.2024-11-1311 min
The StoryBritain’s first grand portrait of a person of colour is saved for the nationThis bank holiday weekend, we're taking a step back from the news to bring you an update on a story we covered earlier in the year.One of Britain's most important paintings of a non-white subject has now been saved for the nation following a public campaign to raise £50 million to buy it from its private owner. This is the story of the Portrait of Omai. This podcast was brought to you thanks to the support of readers of The Times and The Sunday Times. Subscribe today: thetimes.co.uk/storiesofourtimes.Guest: Bendor G...2023-04-1027 min
Killing Time with Rebecca RidealThe Immortal Anthony Van DyckIn this episode, Rebecca Rideal is joined by art historian and broadcaster, Dr Bendor Grosvenor to explore the fascinating life and mysterious death of 17th-century artist, Anthony Van Dyck.
Written, hosted and produced by Rebecca Rideal
Theme Music: 'Circles' by the Broxton Hundred
2023-04-0535 minThe StoryCould Britain lose the first grand portrait of a person of colour?One of Britain's most important paintings of a non-white subject could leave the UK forever next week as the deadline approaches to submit an offer to buy the Portrait of Omai from its private owner. It's valued at £50 million. So what's the painting's story - and can a museum raise that much money in time?This podcast was brought to you thanks to the support of readers of The Times and The Sunday Times. Subscribe today: thetimes.co.uk/storiesofourtimes.Guest: Bendor Grosvenor, British art historian. Host: David Aaronovitch. Clips: Oxford Univ...2023-03-0229 min
Politics UnpackedRefugee SchemesHow's the UK's refugee policy going? Luke speaks to 'Aziz' Afghan refugee who has been stuck in a hotel for six months, Presenter Dr. Bendor Grosvenor, Debbie Gaze and Jane Finlay Blackall about housing Ukrainian refugees in their homes in the UK.PLUS Libby Purves and Rachel Sylvester discuss Boris Johnson's leadership and going to university. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2022-04-1845 min
Front RowLittle Amal, Anne Carson, Paul McCartney and The National TrustLittle Amal, a giant puppet of a refugee girl, will complete her epic journey from Gaziantep on the Turkey/Syria border to Manchester tomorrow. Theatre director David Lan discusses what the project has achieved. Euripides’ tragedy Herakles was first performed in 416BC. The poet Anne Carson’s new translation mentions contemporary artist Anselm Kiefer, an Airstream trailer and a lawnmower. The text is torn and pasted, scattered along with drawings. Carson talks Tom Sutcliffe about her version, titled H of H Playbook.On Saturday, the National Trust held its annual general meeting where members expressed thei...2021-11-0242 min
SoupCastBritish Museum Rides the Great NFT Wave with Hokusai Digital 'Postcards'! - WB 1st Oct 2021
Welcome to Watching Brief. As the name implies, each week Marc (Mr Soup) & Andy Brockman of the Pipeline (Where history is tomorrow's news) cast an eye over news stories, topical media and entertainment and discuss and debate what they find.Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/archaeosoup*** 0:00 Introduction02:05 Rolling News…18:14 British Museum Hokusai NFTs***Link of the Week:‘Hi-Res Hokusai for Free’:https://tinyurl.com/t89mm9nb***Links:Stewartby Historic Brickworks Chimneys Demolis...2021-10-2346 min
The Archaeology Podcast Network FeedBritish Museum Rides the Great NFT Wave with Hokusai Digital ‘Postcards’!Welcome to Watching Brief. As the name implies, each week Marc (Mr Soup) & Andy Brockman of the Pipeline (Where history is tomorrow's news) cast an eye over news stories, topical media and entertainment and discuss and debate what they find.Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/archaeosoup*** 0:00 Introduction02:05 Rolling News…18:14 British Museum Hokusai NFTs***Link of the Week:‘Hi-Res Hokusai for Free’:https://tinyurl.com/t89mm9nb***Links:Stewartby Historic Brickworks Chimneys Demolis...2021-10-2347 min
The Briefing RoomNon-Fungible TokensWhen a collage of digital images was sold in New York earlier this year for £50 million, the art world was convulsed. The reason? The picture couldn't be hung on a wall and was only visible online. What had been bought and sold was the non-fungible token - or NFT - relating to the collage. David Aaronovitch and his guests discover how NFTs work for those who sell and those who buy them and also consider if NFTs are a passing fad or an aspect of our culture that is becoming increasingly common and might lead to the e...2021-09-3028 min
Waldy and Bendy’s Adventures in ArtSeason 3, Episode 19Season Finale! Waldy & Bendy visit Bendor Grosvenor's Farm to search for the best birds in art and look back at their favourite art moments of the lockdown.
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2021-05-161h 15Waldy and Bendy’s Adventures in ArtSeason 3, Episode 12Waldy & Bendy raid Bendor Grosvenor's farm in the search for the best horse in art! Waldy reveals how Caspar David Friedrich changed his television career, while, Bendy visits the Queen.
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The Listening ServiceMusical SignaturesWhat gives away a composer's personal style? How can we spot their musical signatures? And having done so, could they be convincingly copied?Tom looks for clues in the potentially similar music of Mozart and Haydn, and in the English styles of Vaughan Williams and Elgar, and speaks to art historian and discoverer of lost masterpieces, Dr Bendor Grosvenor.
2021-02-0730 min
Art History at BedtimeSofonisba Anguisola (c.1532-1625) by Raffaele Soprani (1674), from 'Life Stories of Women Artists, 1550-1800: An Anthology' by Julia K. Dabbs (2009).Support the show2020-05-2515 minArt History at BedtimeThe Letters of Michelangelo, 1542.Support the show2020-05-1417 minArt History at BedtimeSir Anthony Van Dyck (1599-1641) by Horace Walpole, 1762.Support the show2020-05-0814 minArt History at Bedtime“Madonna Properzia de' Rossi (c. 1490–1530) by Giorgio Vasari - the only chapter Vasari dedicated to female artists in the Renaissance.”Support the show2020-05-0515 min
The ListenerFra Filippo Lippi (c.1406-1469) by Giorgio Vasari - ‘much addicted to the pleasures of sense'. Podcast: Art History at Bedtime (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Fra Filippo Lippi (c.1406-1469) by Giorgio Vasari - ‘much addicted to the pleasures of sense'.Pub date: 2020-04-18Notes from The Listener:Bedtime stories from art history, read by the British art historian Bendor Grosvenor. This is an extract from the sixteenth century writer Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists about the fifteenth century Florentine painter Filippo Lippi. It tells the story of how the artist became friends with Cosimo de' Medici and thus the intelligentsia. Lippi was addicted to instant gra...2020-05-0116 minArt History at BedtimeMassaccio (1401-1428) by Giorgio Vasari; “the highest summit of perfection”Support the show2020-04-3013 minArt History at BedtimeMichelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610), by Giovanni Pietro Bellori (1672); "he gave himself up to the dark manner”.Support the show2020-04-2716 minArt History at BedtimeSandro Botticelli c.1445-1510 by Giorgio Vasari - “Now Sandro was fond of jesting…”Support the show2020-04-2215 min
Marc’s Almanac20th April, 2020 – Pangur BanHello from Suffolk, England. Here's five minutes of civilised calm to start your day right. With a poem by a 9th-century Irish monk, Pangur Ban.
"I and Pangur Ban my cat,
'Tis a like task we are at..."
From the show:
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
John Halifax, Gentleman by Dinah Craik
Leslie Phillips: "Ding Dong!"
The White Cat and the Monk
Art History at Bedtime, read by Dr Bendor Grosvenor
A song to wake up to – The Bones, by Ma...2020-04-2004 minArt History at BedtimeFra Filippo Lippi (c.1406-1469) by Giorgio Vasari - ‘much addicted to the pleasures of sense'.Support the show2020-04-1816 minArt History at BedtimeLeonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) by Giorgio Vasari - ‘his name and fame can never be extinguished’.Support the show2020-04-1833 minArt History at BedtimeGiorgione (c.1477-1510) by Giorgio Vasari - ‘born to infuse spirit into painting’.Support the show2020-04-1814 minArt History at BedtimeCimabue (1240-1302) by Giorgio Vasari - ‘the first light of painting’.Support the show2020-04-1712 minArt History at BedtimeGiotto (1267-1337) by Giorgio Vasari - ‘the true path of art’.Support the show2020-04-1720 min
The Week in ArtCoronavirus: dispatches from Italy and ChinaWe speak to our journalists in the two epicentres of the Covid-19 pandemic thus far: Anna Somers Cocks in Italy and Lisa Movius in China. We hear about their experiences of lockdown, the response of museums and galleries and the effect on the art community, as the two countries enter contrasting moments in the coronavirus crisis. And we begin a new feature, turning the spotlight on works of art normally enjoyed by millions of visitors in museums across the world that are suddenly hanging unseen in empty galleries closed because of the coronavirus pandemic. In the...2020-03-2044 min
Art MattersFinding More of Britain's Lost Masterpieces ft. Bendor Grosvenor – Episode 46We speak to Bendor Grosvenor, co-host of 'Britain's Lost Masterpieces' to discuss the latest series.2019-11-1900 minFront RowOlly Alexander, Midsommar, Britain's First Female Artists, Leon Kossoff obituaryIn the week of Pride and following his Glastonbury speech about LGBTQ rights, Olly Alexander of Years & Years talks about writing lyrics that are overtly about gay relationships.Ari Aster's horror film Midsommar starring Florence Pugh has allegedly given its own stars nightmares. Isabel Stevens reviews. 17th century artists Joan Carlile, Mary Beale and Anne Killigrew were the first professional female painters in Britain. Art historian Bendor Grosvenor discusses the work of these trailblazing women showcased in “Bright Souls”: The Forgotten Story of Britain’s First Female Artists at the Lyon & Turnbull Gallery in London.W...2019-07-0528 min
Art MattersFinding Britain’s Lost Masterpieces ft. Dr Bendor Grosvenor – Episode 17As the third series of the BBC series 'Britain's Lost Masterpieces' comes to a close, I sat down with presenter Dr Bendor Grosvenor to discuss the paintings featured in the three episodes, and to get some behind-the-scenes insight into how the show is put together.
https://artuk.org/discover/stories/art-matters-podcast-finding-britains-lost-masterpieces2018-09-0400 minFront RowSacha Baron Cohen's Who Is America?, Glasgow School of Art Rebuild, Anita Corbin, China's Most Expensive Film FlopsSacha Baron Cohen's return to TV is Who Is America?, a new series in which he dupes figures such as Sarah Palin and Bernie Sanders into giving interviews to him, heavily disguised with prosthetics. TV critic Boyd Hilton reviews.As the decision is taken to rebuild the Glasgow School of Art after its second devastating fire, Sally Stewart, Head of Architecture at the school, discusses the latest plans for the celebrated Charles Rennie Mackintosh masterpiece.Photographer Anita Corbin discusses her latest project, First Women, a series of portraits of 100 women who have broken barriers in...2018-07-1728 min
FT News in FocusThe Rubens painting that fooled the MetA portrait of Clara Serena, daughter of Peter Paul Rubens, was sold as an unexceptional work by New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art five years ago, but has now been re-appraised as the work of the Flemish master himself and not one of his followers as originally thought. James Pickford discusses the Met’s costly mistake with art historian Bendor Grosvenor.Read James’s article here
See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.2018-05-0400 minFront RowTracey Thorn, Rival Biographers, Image Licensing, StormzyTracey Thorn describes her new record 'Record' as 'nine feminist bangers'. She talks to John Wilson about why electro-pop turns out to be her preferred style for a musical look back at various stages in her life from birth, through teenage crushes and learning to play guitar to motherhood.The Finnish National Gallery has just become the latest institution to make digital images of works in its collection, that are no longer in copyright, freely available to the public. No major UK arts institution has taken a similar step. Art Historian Dr Bendor Grosvenor has been campaigning...2018-02-2240 min
The Week in ArtEpisode 16: Charles I at the Royal Academy—an exhibition fit for a kingWe pick apart the latest smash hit show to open in London with art historian Bendor Grosvenor, then complete our 2018 preview with a look at the big exhibitions coming to the US this year Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2018-01-2632 min
The Week in ArtEpisode 12: Old Masters after the Leonardo and Art Basel Miami BeachWe talk Titian, Constable, Veneziano, Wright of Derby, Van Dyck and, yes, Leonardo, with art historian Bendor Grosvenor. And our deputy art market editor Anna Brady gets Judd Tully’s views on Miami’s annual art fair. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2017-12-0833 min
Artelligence PodcastBendor Grosvenor on Leonardo's Salvator MundiThe $450m sale of Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi was surrounded by a the near constant repetition of the erroneous idea that there are doubts about the work's authenticity. From news reports to essays by Contemporary art critics miffed at the growing spectacle, writers ignored the consensus among scholars and scientific researchers that the work is the lost work of the Renaissance master.
In this podcast, Bendor Grosvenor, an Old Master dealer credited with numerous 'sleeper' finds and the host of "Britain's Lost Masterpieces," discusses the 2011 National Gallery show on Leonardo that admitted the Salvator Mundi into the canon of...2017-11-2939 minFront RowAudre Lorde, Dan Brown, Art Connoisseurship, Harvey WeinsteinAudre Lorde described herself as "black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet". A writer of the 70s and 80s, this month her poetry and prose is published in the UK for the first time in a new anthology: Your Silence Will Not Protect You. Akwugo Emejulu, Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick discusses the resurgent interest in Lorde's work and her importance to contemporary activistsDan Brown came to the fame in 2003 with his novel The Da Vinci Code which became a worldwide bestseller and a Hollywood movie. As his latest book, Origin, is published, Brown discusses...2017-10-0931 min
Dr Janina Ramirez - Art DetectiveEquestrian Portrait of Charles I by Anthony van Dyck - with Bendor GrosvenorBendor Grosvenor is a British art dealer, art historian and writer. He is known for discovering a number of important lost works by Old Master artists, including Sir Peter Paul Rubens, Claude Lorrain and Peter Brueghel the Younger.
The Equestrian Portrait of Charles I (also known as Charles I on Horseback) is an oil painting on canvas by Anthony van Dyck, showing Charles I on horseback. Charles I had become King of Great Britain and Ireland in 1625 on the death of his father James I, and Van Dyck became the Charles' Principal Painter in Ordinary in 1632.
The...2017-03-3100 minFT News in FocusLiving with ArtArt historian Bendor Grosvenor talks about the growing trend for displaying Old Masters in contemporary interiors and whether brown furniture is making a comeback.
See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.2015-06-1200 min