Tiffany Jenkins talks to key players in the cultural world, charting the trends and dissecting the controversies. She rummages around the store cupboard to find out what has and hasn't made the pedestal.
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Tiffany Jenkins talks to key players in the cultural world, charting the trends and dissecting the controversies. She rummages around the store cupboard to find out what has and hasn't made the pedestal.
Everything you didn't know about the Renaissance Nude, with Jill Burke
Behind the Scenes at the Museum
42 minutes 59 seconds
6 years ago
Everything you didn't know about the Renaissance Nude, with Jill Burke
Tiffany Jenkins talks to Jill Burke, a prize-winning researcher in Italian Renaissance art history, senior lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, and associate editor of Renaissance Studies, about the Renaissance Nude.
They discuss the hidden influences and impact of the Renaissance nude upon the social and political reality of Italy – why did representations of the nude proliferate in this period? What kind of society produced them? What did they mean? What was the difference between the male and female nude – and who was doing the looking?
► LINKS AND FURTHER INFORMATION
‘The Italian Renaissance Nude’, by Jill Burke, which, incredibly, is the first scholarly monograph to focus on the inception of the Italian Renaissance Nude is available from Yale University Press.
Read more by Jill Burke on her blog.
Find out more about the RA’s exhibition the Renaissance Nude.
► MUSIC
Signature tune: Nick Vander - Galaxy I - Black kopal - 20190123 1206
The rest:
Artist: Liam Thomas Title: No Time Listen on YouTube: https://youtu.be/QVwZmQkJ6Sw
Music provided by HearWeGo - (Royalty free)
► PICTURES/GET IN TOUCH
The image used for the episode is Saint Sebastian by Agnolo Bronzino 1533 & is on loan to the RA from the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid.
Further images discussed in this episode are available on Instagram: @BehindtheMuseum
Twitter: @BehindtheMuseum
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Behind the Scenes at the Museum is written and presented by Tiffany Jenkins and produced by Jac Phillimore.
Behind the Scenes at the Museum
Tiffany Jenkins talks to key players in the cultural world, charting the trends and dissecting the controversies. She rummages around the store cupboard to find out what has and hasn't made the pedestal.
