Paname: The Secret History of Paris

Napoleon: A Very Efficient Magpie

Last time, we explored Veronese’s dazzling Wedding Feast at Cana a Venetian marvel painted for a monastery refectory and admired there for over two hundred years. Today, we follow the painting into a very different world: war, politics, plunder, restoration disasters, and an ongoing question of art crimes and restoration. Once again my main source for today is the excellent book Napoleons plunder by Cynthia Saltzman Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/panamepodcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Louvre's Stolen Masterpiece(s)

If you thought the recent theft of the Napoleonic jewels from the Louvre was audacious then just wait for what I have in store for you today because it is one of the biggest, and I mean that literally, the biggest, art thefts in the Louvre’s history. Today we are looking at Veronese’s Wedding Feast at Cana, a dazzling masterpiece that once filled an entire wall of the monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, and was proudly displayed there for more than two centuries, from its completion in 1563 until 1797 when French troops unceremoniously tore it from the wall, rolled it up and shipped it to Paris.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/panamepodcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Artists' Wives

Stretched at full length, on the great divan of a studio, cigar in mouth, two friends—a poet and a painter—were talking together one evening after dinner... what follows are a series of short stories which might make you think twice about marriage. My favourite is 'Fragment of a woman's letter found in the rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs' Read the full text here Follow me on instagram or go to my website for sources and pictures.Support the show on Patreon or leave a review or tell a friend, it makes my day and helps people find the show.or you can make a one off donation on PayPalArtwork Double MerrickMusic The Owl Get bonus content on PatreonSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/panamepodcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Pox

Spend a night with Venus and the rest of your life with Mercury... have a look inside the museum here Follow me on instagram or go to my website for sources and pictures.Support the show on Patreon or leave a review or tell a friend, it makes my day and helps people find the show.or you can make a one off donation on PayPalArtwork Double MerrickMusic The Owl Get bonus content on PatreonSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/panamepodcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Delacroix Angels

In part two on Eugène Delacroix let's discover some of his work, for free, in a walking tour of 3 churches of Paris: Saint Paul Saint Louis, Saint Denys du Saint Sacrement both in the 3rd and Saint Sulpice in the 6th and I try to understand the story of Jacob wrestling an Angel. Follow me on instagram or go to my website for sources and pictures.Support the show on Patreon or leave a review or tell a friend, it makes my day and helps people find the show.or you can make a one off donation on PayPalArtwork Double MerrickMusic The Owl Get bonus content on PatreonSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/panamepodcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.