Series one
Enjoy an in-depth insight into the Barber’s stunning collection through this programme of mini podcasts.
Discussions include past and present displays, small groups of related works, an aspect of the member of staff’s own research, or single masterpieces and recent acquisitions.
Episode 11:
‘Reclining Nymph’: Androgynous Figures in Renaissance Art, with Kirsty Clarke, Student Engagement Coordinator.
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Episode 10:
Jean Gossart (Jan Gossaert): Mythology and the Renaissance nude, with Helen Cobby, Assistant Curator.
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Episode 9:
Naming the Nude with Becca Randle, Learning and Engagement Coordinator.
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Episode 8:
Finding David: the Identity of the ‘Portrait of a Boy’ by Govert Flinck with Robert Wenley, Deputy Director and Head of Collections.
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Episode 7:
Monet and Painting ‘en plein air’ with Beth Brankowski, Learning and Engagement Administrator.
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Episode 6:
Turner at the Barber Institute: Sun, Sea and Ships with Helen Cobby, Assistant Curator.
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Episode 5:
Saint James the Great and the World of Pilgrimage, Real and Imagined with April Armstrong-Bascombe, Collections Intern.
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Episode 4:
Cézanne and the Modern French Print with Helen Cobby, Assistant Curator.
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Episode 3:
Working Women: Attitudes to Female in Labour in 19th-century Art with Mimi Buchanan, Learning and Engagement Intern.
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Episode 2:
Maternal Bonds: Adriaen van Ostade’s ‘The Child and The Doll’ and John Sloan’s ‘The Women’s Page’ with Beth Brankowski, Learning and Engagement Administrator and curator of the display.
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Episode 1:
Rossetti and ‘The Blue Bower’: Pre-Raphaelite Symbolism and Ideals of Beauty with a Single Female Muse with Helen Cobby, Assistant Curator.
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