Ep. 36 - Behold the Monkey

The Lonely Palette

Arts, Podcast, Art, Museum, Painting, Modern Art, Visual Arts, Art History

4.8 • 857 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

The fruits of the Second Annual Year-End Patreon Listener Challenge has us staring directly into the cold dead eyes of the beast! How could this restoration of a forgotten 19th century Spanish fresco have gotten so grotesquely botched, and what does it tell us about the challenges of art restoration, religious iconography, and iconoclasm? And more importantly, Jesus, why you look like a shark? See the images: http://www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/2019/1/25/episode-36-behold-the-monkey-the-ecce-homo-restoration Music used: Django Reinhardt, “Django’s Tiger” The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" The Blue Dot Sessions, “Sylvestor”, “Mute Steps”, “Mr. Graves”, “Lobo Lobo”, “Lumber Down”, “Cloudy Cider” Tracie Potochnik, “Cecilia and the Saints” Episode sponsor: https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/lonely Support the show! Some more! www.patreon.com/lonelypalette

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0:15.6	You're a college freshman who thinks that it would be really cool to study art history,
0:19.8	and you're going into it for the rawness and the abstraction and all the Mona Lisa's. And then you're going into it for the rawness and the abstraction and all the monaleases.
0:24.6	And then you're forced to take a course on ancient art and you're like, how is this bowl interesting?
0:30.0	How is it art?
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0:45.5	Go from Paleolithic cave paintings to Egyptian masks to classical Greek sculpture,
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1:20.6	Again, that's the Great Courses Plus, dot com slash lonely. I was not saying. Everybody loved my painting.
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