Open Resources

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Open Arts Object: Anna Atkins, Title Page and Poppy , from the portfolio British and Foreign Flowering Plants and Ferns, 1854, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

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https://player.open.ac.uk/embed/7b56185848

Susanna Brown, curator of Photographs at the V&A, discusses striking blue nature studies by Anna Atkins, one of the world's first female photographers.

Open Arts Object: Three highlights from the historic gardens at Wrest Park, Bedfordshire (English Heritage)

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https://player.open.ac.uk/embed/943a014e8e

Dr Susie West explore a Victorian parterre, a 1680s sundial and a monumental altar of 1748, part of 300 years of design in the garden.

Open Arts Object: Henry Irving, Sycamore in Summer and Winter, c. 1900, Victoria and Albert Museum

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https://player.open.ac.uk/embed/680c3fa293

Catherine Troiano, curator at the V&A, discusses a pair of photographs of a Sycamore tree by Henry Irving, which highlight photography’s role in both science and art.

Open Arts Object: Sonia Khurana’s Zoetrope, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi

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https://player.open.ac.uk/embed/f94a4566a4

Dr Leon Wainwright tackles the issue of meaning and experience around a contemporary artwork by the New Delhi-based artist Sonia Khurana.

Open Arts Object: Alesso Baldovinetti, Portrait of a Lady, c. 1465, National Gallery, London

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https://player.open.ac.uk/embed/c3a165192e

Dr Leah Clark discusses the function of female profile portraits, a genre that was popular in fifteenth-century Italy.