Odysseus at the Getty
March 31st, 2009
Another podcast with our new Smarthistory Colleague Francesca Tronchin!
Unknown, Mixing Vessel with Odysseus Escaping from the Cyclops’s Cave, 550-500 B.C.E.
Lever House Restored
March 26th, 2009
Gordon Bunshaft for Skidmore Owings & Merrill, Lever House, 390 Park Avenue, NYC, 1951-52
Speakers: Drs. Matthew A. Postal and Steven Zucker
Magritte’s Treacherous Pipe
March 26th, 2009
René Magritte, The Treachery of Images (Ceci n’est pas une pipe), 1929 (LACMA)
Venus – after the Greek original by Praxiteles
March 11th, 2009
A podcast at the Getty Villa, where we were the guests of the fantastic Francesca Tronchin — a new Smarthistory contributor whose specialty is in ancient Greek and Roman art — boy did we need Francesca…!
Unknown sculptor, Venus after the Greek original by Praxiteles from the 4th century BCE,
Roman, 175 – 200 CE (Getty Villa)
Speakers: Drs. Beth Harris, Francesca Tronchin, Steven Zucker
