What Is a Painting?

What Is a Painting?

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What do you see when you look at a painting? You see the subject and the style of the work but also the materials and technologies used to create it and the traces of everything that has happened to it. Professional paintings conservator Jean Dommermuth considers how all of those factors contribute to what a painting is. You don’t need to know anything about art history to enjoy this podcast, but no matter what, you’ll never look at a painting the same way again. You can find images and related materials at jeandommermuth.com/podcast

Recent Episodes

  • Episode 21 - A Copy of a Copy: The Ghent Altarpiece, Part 4

    2 months ago
  • Episode 20 - A Missing Piece: The Ghent Altarpiece, Part 3

    4 months ago
  • Episode 19 - The Sum of Many Parts: The Ghent Altarpiece, Part 2

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  • Episode 18 - A Complex Whole: The Ghent Altarpiece, Part 1

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  • Episode 17 - A Changing Landscape

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  • Episode 16 - Translucent Color

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  • Episode 15 - An Elaborated Sketch

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  • Episode 14 - More Memories of the Forest

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  • Episode 13 - A Dark Mirror

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  • Episode 12 - A Survivor of the Flood, Part 2

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