Caroline Campbell does a great job in these videos. Speaks with expertise and enthusiasm...no distracting umm of ahhs. Excellent presentation, interesting details about Andrea Mantegna.
This series of lectures on paintings are absolutely enlightening; I love listening to new information (for me) and to the lives and reasoning of these master painters. Indeed, I am filled with gratitude.
My goodness. Ms Campbell is definitely a master speaker. How very interesting to explore the multi messaging and important innovations represented. Mid 1400s. How exciting.
So happy I discovered this world of art. The curator was marvelous in portraying the details both hidden and open to view. Thank you for this interesting and beautiful world of art.
She mentioned the painting might have been commissioned for devotional purposes. The Agony in the Garden is the first Sorrowful Mystery of one of the Catholic Church’s most important devotional prayers, the Rosary. 🙂
Listening these beautiful lectures fills my heart with joy and life, my mind with inspiration and desire to create. This is greatness in life, its art.
All comments are spot on.....if she looks at this painting every day before opening, she must be running past it as fast as she can! I just imagine living w/her and listening to that speed! Amazing.
The lecture is very good. Thank you! But please show more of the picture instead of the lecturer!!!! This is the only comment that goes to ALL the lectures of NG. We, the youtubers, do not have the privilege of looking around and stare at the paintings while listening to the talk. Please keep it in mind when making a video. Please be considerate!
The fact that there is a gap in the fence, may well refer to the open possibility for Christ, to escape and not to take the chalice offered by the angel (which means the chalice of suffering and death mentioned by Mark.)
Art is about to imagine the believable image and ideas inside each mind. That’s amazing of making up one’s own story. This is also the prestigious ability of human beings.
Thank you for your knowledge and interest in this painting. I am curious if art historians consult with actual artists when they are compiling information. Did Mantegna use a blue for Jesus that faded? Otherwise why would he make the center of attention the dullest part of the painting?
Dr. Campbell's talks are my favorites in this series. Her talks are well-structured and present current scholarship in a clear and approachable manner. Both the Bellini and Botticelli (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jNkHq6QXX30.html) presentations are very entertaining.
It is a good presentation but, please, show the Romans, show the stone when she talks about it. It is not a lecturer, really, who we should be keep looking at.
It’s very irritating that the camera person doesn’t show much of the painting. The curator is excellent in talking about different aspects of the painting but the camera person doesn’t show what she’s talking about. We know what she looks like and we know who is talking so why do we need to have the whole program focusing on her? We want to see the painting so we can follow the talk
Very impressive, informative and interesting! However, with due respect, I do not think that nature as such has anything to do with the representation of it in a painting. This must necessarily be a subjective, condensed view or rather impression, suggestive of - rather than an image of the thing itself, unless perhaps in the Gent Altarpiece, the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, by Van Eyck, in which at least 75 (!) plants have been identified. And yes, this masterpiece (1432) was also painted for an (individual) very rich patron in my home town Gent (or Ghent as it is known in English).
Giovanni shows the his favourite place always high up. If you went there you would know leo has been there AOMPS Jesuits etc Zion. I am interested in the Geometric connections. Blue and Red was the centre piece. Keys would have been passed by. One day I explain to my Son he walked in the footsteps of Gio and Leo. Oh yes the degree angle will be facing. Thanks
Nobody so far has mentioned the glaring mistakes. Christ is not 'sitting' or (later) 'standing'; he is kneeling. He did not, according to christian doctrine, assume divinity after execution, but had it from birth. These are egregious errors.
Why is the figure of the angel with the cup of sorrow depicted so poorly? I wonder if it is a later addition. Looks far too amateurish for a master painter.
HAVE YOU EVER MADE THIS TYPE OF PRESENTATIONS, ALONG WITH THREE OF YOUR FEMALE COLLEGUES, SUCH AS SOMEBODY NAMES FRANCESCA, FOR BAs STUDYING AT THE COURTAUKD OR FOR ARTISTS STUDYING AT THE ROYAL COLKEGE OF ART. FOR ARTISTS, IT CAN BE A BIT DIFFERENT, AS IT COULD ALSO DEALS WITH COLOUR, LANDSCAPE THEORIES, GEOMETRIC COMPOSITION, ETC. FOR THIS SOECIFIC AUDIENCE, IT WOUKD BE GOOD TO PLACE THIS ARTEFACT IN A MORE GENERAL CONTEXT, OR ART TRAINING IN THE ITALY OF THE EARLY RENAISSANCE (AND BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE ACCADEMIA DEL DISEGNO OF VASARI IN FLORENCE, WHICH SHOULD BE CONSIDERED THE FIRST ART SCHOOL OF EALY MODERN EUROPE). SO HAVE YOU EVER HAD THIS TYPE OF AUDIENCES? THIS QUESTION APPLIES TOO TO YOUR THREE FEMALE COLLEGUES THAT I HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING IN THEIR PRESENTATIONS. FOR "DEBUTANTS" AND "DEBUTTANTES", ART SHOULD BE PEIMARILY BEEN TAUGHT IN SITU, ALMOST A BIT
Is there only one National Gallery in the world ? If not - why does the title not indicate which one is the one ? Surely, it is not asking for too much. No need to listen to the video, judge by the accent or the content - just state it clearly - in the title - to begin with.
She talks non stop barely able to catch her breath and uses more words than is necessary to describe the paintings. This is not fast-food and we are not trying to run thru Heathrow Security to catch a plane. Slow down and let the concepts digest and let our minds absorb the beauty and art. Listening to you is like paying for a 300,000 pound bottle of wine and drinking it during a Marathon race.
Agreed. For me, she's not an easy listen. Too fast and her voice is not pleasing to listen to as it's a bit high, almost squeaky. Clearly some others seem to think she's amazing. We're all different.
The focus should be on the painting not on the speaker, also I would like to say this lady should have made a little more effort with her appearance, she looks like she is going to a demo or a beer festival not given a talk on a remarkable work of art
