Notes On A Painting

Episódios

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  Episode 63: Louis Finson, The Four Elements, 1611 15.05.2026 31min

  Notes On A Painting is a podcast by artist Olivia Kemp and Art Historian Esme Garlake. Together each week we will discuss a painting that one of us has chosen and researched. Our choices of painting will reflect where our tastes differ and overlap across the history of art. This week we discuss a dramatic Caravaggesque work by Louis Finson.
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  Episode 62: Francisco de Zurbarán, Saint Serapion, 1628 08.05.2026 32min

  Notes On A Painting is a podcast by artist Olivia Kemp and Art Historian Esme Garlake. Together each week we will discuss a painting that one of us has chosen and researched. Our choices of painting will reflect where our tastes differ and overlap across the history of art. This week a religious work by the Spanish Golden Age master, Francisco de Zurbarán.
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  Episode 61: Albrecht Dürer, The Great Piece of Turf, 1503 01.05.2026 38min

  Notes On A Painting is a podcast by artist Olivia Kemp and Art Historian Esme Garlake. Together each week we will discuss a painting that one of us has chosen and researched. Our choices of painting will reflect where our tastes differ and overlap across the history of art. This week an iconic watercolour work by Albrecht Dürer.
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  Episode 60: Sarah Miriam Peale, Susan Avery, 1821 17.04.2026 41min

  Notes On A Painting is a podcast by artist Olivia Kemp and art historian Esme Garlake. Together each week we will discuss a painting that one of us has chosen and researched. Our choices of painting will reflect where our tastes differ and overlap across the history of art. This week we discuss a work by the first successful female painter in the USA.
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  Episode 59: Kamal-ol-Molk, Mirror Hall, 1876 09.04.2026 27min

  Notes On A Painting is a podcast by artist Olivia Kemp and Art Historian Esme Garlake. Together each week we will discuss a painting that one of us has chosen and researched. Our choices of painting will reflect where our tastes differ and overlap across the history of art. This week we discuss on of Kamal-ol-Molks most famous works.
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  Episode 58: Edwin Landseer, Monarch of the Glen, 1851 02.04.2026 32min

  Notes On A Painting is a podcast by artist Olivia Kemp and Art Historian Esme Garlake. Together each week we will discuss a painting that one of us has chosen and researched. Our choices of painting will reflect where our tastes differ and overlap across the history of art. This week we discuss the iconic "Monarch of the Glen" by Edwin Landseer.
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  Episode 57: Fra Angelico, The Mocking of Christ 1441 27.03.2026 32min

  Notes On A Painting is a podcast by artist Olivia Kemp and Art Historian Esme Garlake. Together each week we will discuss a painting that one of us has chosen and researched. Our choices of painting will reflect where our tastes differ and overlap across the history of art. This week we look at one of Fra Angelico's most renown frescos
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  Episode 56: Judith Leyster, The Happy Couple, 1630 20.03.2026 38min

  Notes On A Painting is a podcast by artist Olivia Kemp and Art Historian Esme Garlake. Together each week we will discuss a painting that one of us has chosen and researched. Our choices of painting will reflect where our tastes differ and overlap across the history of art. This week we discuss the Dutch Golden Age painter, Judith Leyster.
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  Episode 55: Simeon Solomon, Sappho and Erinna in a Garden at Mytilene, 1864 13.03.2026 34min

  Notes On A Painting is a podcast by artist Olivia Kemp and Art Historian Esme Garlake. Together each week we will discuss a painting that one of us has chosen and researched. Our choices of painting will reflect where our tastes differ and overlap across the history of art. This week a small watercolour by Simeon Solomon, tackling a controversial subject matter for its time.
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  Episode 54: Thomas Gainsborough, Cornard Wood, 1748 06.03.2026 36min

  Notes On A Painting is a podcast by artist Olivia Kemp and art historian Esme Garlake. Together each week we will discuss a painting that one of us has chosen and researched. Our choices of painting will reflect where our tastes differ and overlap across the history of art. This week we look at an early landscape painting by one of Britain's greatest landscape painters Thomas Gainsborough.
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  Episode 53: Bartholomaeus Spranger, Hermaphroditus and the Nymph, 1580-82 27.02.2026 36min

  Notes On A Painting is a podcast by artist Olivia Kemp and Art Historian Esme Garlake. Together each week we will discuss a painting that one of us has chosen and researched. Our choices of painting will reflect where our tastes differ and overlap across the history of art. This week we look at a work depicting one of Ovids Metamorphoses.
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  Episode 52: Thomas Cole, A View of the Mountain Pass (Crawford Notch), 1839 19.02.2026 36min

  Notes on a painting is a podcast by artist Olivia Kemp and Art Historian Esme Garlake. Together each week we will discuss a painting that one of us has chosen and researched. Our choices of painting will reflect where our tastes differ and overlap across the history of art . This week we look at one of American artist, Thomas Cole's greatest paintings.
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  Episode 51: Mansur, Turkey c.1612 13.02.2026 28min

  Notes On A Painting is a podcast by artist Olivia Kemp and Art Historian Esme Garlake. Together each week we will discuss a painting that one of us has chosen and researched. Our choices of painting will reflect where our tastes differ and overlap across the history of art. This week a miniature painting by the master of nature, Mansur.
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  Episode 50: Michaelina Wautier, Two Girls as Saints Agnes and Dorothy c. 1655 06.02.2026 29min

  Notes on a painting is a podcast by artist Olivia Kemp and Art Historian Esme Garlake. Together each week we will discuss a painting that one of us has chosen and researched. Our choices of painting will reflect where our tastes differ and overlap across the history of art . This week we look at the mysterious artist Michaelina Wautier, who had her first ever major retrospective almost 400 years after her death. 
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  Episode 49: Rosa Bonheur, Ploughing in the Nivernais, 1849 05.12.2025 43min

  Notes on a painting is a podcast by artist Olivia Kemp and Art Historian Esme Garlake. Together each week we will discuss a painting that one of us has chosen and researched. Our choices of painting will reflect where our tastes differ and overlap across the history of art . This week, the monumental painting "Ploughing in the Nivernais" by Rosa Bonheur.
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  Episode 48: Joaquín Sorolla, The Daughters of Rafael Errázuriz 1897 28.11.2025 31min

  Notes on a painting is a podcast by artist Olivia Kemp and Art Historian Esme Garlake. Together each week we will discuss a painting that one of us has chosen and researched. Our choices of painting will reflect where our tastes differ and overlap across the history of art. This week an unusual Sorolla work, The Daughters of Rafael Errázuriz.
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  Episode 47: Rogier van der Weyden, The Descent from the Cross, c. 1435 21.11.2025 40min

  Notes On A Painting is a podcast by artist Olivia Kemp and art historian Esme Garlake. Together each week we will discuss a painting that one of us has chosen and researched. Our choices of painting will reflect where our tastes differ and overlap across the history of art. This week we look at Rogier van der Weyden's iconic "The Descent from the Cross"
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  Episode 46: Winslow Homer, The Fox Hunt 1893 14.11.2025 35min

  Notes On A Painting is a podcast by artist Olivia Kemp and art historian Esme Garlake. Together each week we will discuss a painting that one of us has chosen and researched. Our choices of painting will reflect where our tastes differ and overlap across the history of art. This week we look at "The Fox Hunt" by revered American painter Winslow Homer.
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  Episode 45 : Jean Honoré Fragonard, Young Girl Reading, c. 1769 07.11.2025 40min

  Notes On A Painting is a podcast by artist Olivia Kemp and art historian Esme Garlake. Together each week we will discuss a painting that one of us has chosen and researched. Our choices of painting will reflect where our tastes differ and overlap across the history of art. This week, a work by Fragonard, which is notable for its loose style and the questions surrounding its sitter.
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  Episode 44: Unknown Artist, The Rainbow Portrait, 1600/1602 31.10.2025 36min

  Notes On A Painting is a podcast by artist Olivia Kemp and art historian Esme Garlake. Together each week we will discuss a painting that one of us has chosen and researched. Our choices of painting will reflect where our tastes differ and overlap across the history of art. This week we discuss a mysterious painting of Queen Elizabeth 1st and its unknown author.