Hands-On History: Art Historian - Melanie V Taylor
Tudors Dynasty
RedTop Media / Rebecca Larson
4.4 • 794 Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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On this episode of Tudors Dynasty: Hands-On History, Heather chats with Melanie V. Taylor about what it means to be an Art Historian. Melanie also shares with us some interesting insight on a recent project that she had been investigating. If you've ever been interested in becoming an art historian you should watch this video.
Melanie's website: https://melanievtaylor.co.uk/
Melanie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MelanieVTaylor
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| 0:15.2 | The Tudors Dynasty Podcast. |
| 0:19.9 | Hi, everyone, and welcome to the Tudors Dynasty podcast YouTube channel. I'm Heather Darcy, |
| 0:26.4 | author of Anna, Duchess of Cleves, the King's beloved sister, and now the host of Hands on History. |
| 0:31.9 | Today, I'm being helped out by one of my parrots, so I apologize for any extra squeakiness. |
| 0:36.9 | And I'm very excited to welcome an art historian named Melanie V. Taylor. |
| 0:41.4 | How are you today? |
| 0:43.3 | Hi. Thanks, Heather. I'm great. How are you? |
| 0:46.2 | Doing well. I'm really excited to have you today. Can you tell us what drew you to art history? |
| 0:53.5 | Well, as a child, I won a scholarship to Slade but wasn't allowed to take it, but I've |
| 0:59.3 | drawn all my life. |
| 1:01.6 | But when I'm sort of heading towards 50, I decided that really I needed to decide on a second |
| 1:09.8 | career. |
| 1:10.9 | So I went away and I did a degree in the history of art, |
| 1:15.5 | architecture and design at Kingston University. |
| 1:18.4 | And then realized having been a dedicated modernist |
| 1:22.4 | and totally rejecting anything that came before the 18th century, |
| 1:27.4 | I realized that actually art in the form of |
| 1:32.0 | architecture and painting and altarpieces and portraits was actually the way that people |
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