The Scholars’ Selection: Masterpieces of Flesh and Blood

In this episode of Art Minded, eminent Italian Renaissance and
Baroque scholars discuss a selection of masterpieces featured in
the special exhibition Flesh and Blood: Italian Masterpieces from
the Capodimonte Museum. The paintings discussed in this podcast,
by El Greco, the Caracci brothers, and Caravaggio, embody the
contrasts of this exhibition: beauty and violence, seduction and
reverence, tradition and modernity, classical renaissance
composure and baroque dynamism.


 


Guillaume Kientz, curator of European art at the Kimbell Art
Museum, begins the discussion with Babette Bohn of Texas
Christian University and Keith Christiansen, John Pope-Hennessey
Chairman of European Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
York.