Meet Me at the Art Museum: Recent Episodes
Zoe Appleby
A podcast that shares weird, wonderful, and inspiring stories from the world of art and culture. This is a show for the culturally curious listener. Join Zoe, a current PhD student in art history, as she explores the objects, places, and artists who facinate her.
Tune in to this art history podcast episode hear from Zoe about the magical powers of medieval gemstones.
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Reference Links:
Brigitte Buettner, The Mineral and the Visual: Precious Stones in Medieval Secular Culture
Albertus Magnus, On Minerals
Marian Campbell, Medieval Jewellery: In Europe 1100-1500
Cynthia Hahn. What Do Reliquaries Do for Relics?
Artwork: 6th century Byzantine gold bracelet adorned with various gemstones and pearls, currently part of the Toledo Museum of Art collection, Ohio, USA.
Music: “Sailing Away” by HoliznaCC0
Tune in to this art history podcast episode hear how visiting art museums benefits your health and the flourishing of your community! Zoe also shares 5 ways you can get the most out of your art museum visits:
- Bring a sketchbook; 2. Catch the traveling show; 3. Talk to the guards; 4. Don’t see it all; 5. Spark your imagination
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Reference Links:
https://www.bmj.com/content/367/bmj.l6377.full.print
https://ppc.sas.upenn.edu/sites/default/files/artmuseumflourishing.pdf
https://www.forbes.com/sites/traversmark/2022/04/09/3-scientific-reasons-why-visiting-an-art-museum-can-boost-your-happiness-today/?sh=27bb7bf6528d
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/mental-health-museum-prescription-brussels-2178582
Artwork is by Gustav Klimt, “Medicine” (Detail: “Hygieia”), 1900-07; Hygieia is the Greco-Roman goddess of health. © Belvedere, Vienna
Music: “Sailing Away” by HoliznaCC0
Explore the world of medieval Chinese Buddhism through a close look at this sculpture of Guanyin in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Your host is a PhD student in art history who is facinated by the stories art objects can tell us.
Sources for this episode include: The Lotus Sutra, the Sutra on the Merit of Bathing the Buddha, Chün-fang Yü's Chinese Buddhism: A Thematic History, and James Robson's “The Buddhist Image Inside-Out: On the Placing of Objects Inside Statues in East Asia.”
To see images of the sculpture visit https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1984.70 or find Meet Me at the Art Museum on Instagram and Facebook
In this episode of Meet Me at the Art Museum, podcast host Zoe shares her love for art and art history... a love that has stood the test of fire!
To see the images accompanying this episode, please visit https://www.instagram.com/art_history_podcast/
Episode Transcription Coming Soon!
Music: "Sailing Away" by HoliznaCC0