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Open Arts Object: Jan van Kessel, Decorative Still-Life Composition with a Porcelain Bowl, Fruit and Insects, 17th century, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

An Van Camp (Curator of Northern European Art) discussing Jan van Kessel, Decorative Still-Life Composition with a Porcelain Bowl, Fruit and Insects, 17th century, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.

Resource link: 
https://player.open.ac.uk/embed/98f18fe10a

Open Arts Object: Michelangelo’s Pietà, 1498-99, St. Peter’s, Rome

Kathleen Christian discussing Michelangelo’s Pietà, 1498-99, St. Peter’s, Rome.

Resource link: 
https://player.open.ac.uk/embed/8a45ddad59

John Constable, Willie Lott’s House from the Stour, 1816-18, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Colin Harrison, Senior Curator of Western Art at the Ashmolean discusses Constable’s painting of Willie Lott’s House and the changes to the English landscape during an age of Industrialisation. 

Resource link: 
https://player.open.ac.uk/embed/518704fe8f

Utagawa Hiroshige I, Evening shower at Ōhashi Bridge, Atake (Ōhashi Atake no yudachi), nineteenth century, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Clare Pollard, Curator of Japanese Art at the Ashmolean discusses a print by Hiroshige, revealing how the artist’s use of colour and composition provides a striking depiction of figures being caught in a rainstorm. 

Resource link: 
https://player.open.ac.uk/embed/c4d02fe2fb

Watanabe Nangaku, Bijin, or beautiful woman with a skull, early nineteenth century, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Clare Pollard, Curator of Japanese Art at the Ashmolean brings to life a Japanese scroll, and what it reveals about the lives of courtesans in nineteenth-century Japan.

Resource link: 
https://player.open.ac.uk/embed/0b1864245a

Michelangelo Buonarroti (attr’d), The Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist, sixteenth century, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Catherine Whistler (Keeper of Western Art) discusses a curious work likely by Michelangelo Buonarroti of The Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist from the sixteenth century and now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.

Resource link: 
https://player.open.ac.uk/embed/e45b9f2c33

Open Arts Object: Beaton’s portrait of Queen Elizabeth II on her coronation day

Susanna Brown, curator of Photographs at the V&A, discusses Beaton’s portrait of Queen Elizabeth II on her coronation day.

Resource link: 
https://player.open.ac.uk/embed/79ac835dd0

Open Arts Object: Gill Perry, Rachel Whiteread, House, 1993

Professor Gill Perry explores House - a sculptural installation made by British artist Rachel Whiteread in 1993 and commissioned by the arts charity Artangel.

Resource link: 
https://player.open.ac.uk/embed/75ee24e269

Open Arts Object: Andy Goldsworthy, Hanging Trees, 2007, Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Sarah Couslon, curator at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, discusses how Hanging Trees addresses issues of borders, land rights and the natural environment.

Resource link: 
https://player.open.ac.uk/embed/4e454de0d9

Open Arts Object: Pierre-Auguste Renoir, La Parisienne, 1874, National Museum Wales

Dr Anne Pritchard considers how Renoir used a sumptuous blue dress to bring the nineteenth-century Paris art world face to face with modernity.

Resource link: 
https://player.open.ac.uk/embed/3e2f58ae2f