In this full series compilation of Every Picture Tells A Story, Waldemar Januszczak sets out to unlock the hidden meanings contained within some of the worldโs most famous paintings.
00:00:00 Ep 1: Thomas Gainsboroughโs โMr and Mrs Andrews.โ
00:20:55 Ep 2: Rembrandtโs โThe Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp.โ
00:42:28 Ep 3: Giorgioneโs โThe Tempest.โ
01:04:53 Ep 4: Sandro Botticelliโs โThe Birth of Venus.โ
01:28:20 Ep 5: Caravaggioโs โBoy Bitten by a Lizard.โ
01:51:52 Ep 6: Leonardo da Vinciโs โMona Lisa.โ
02:15:11 Ep 7: Edouard Manetโs โDรฉjeuner sur LโHerbeโ
02:38:37 Ep 8: Jan van Eyckโs โThe Arnolfini Portraitโ
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Love you, Waldemar!
Waldemar, within your great insights and explanations your wit and wonder lies the golden key of your understanding of the Catholics sensibility!
So many well informed and well intended modern eyes look on certain paintings with a degree of 'colour blindness' that your corrective glasses dispel.
The Arnolfini picture is beautifully and lovingly restored – what troubled me as a newly married man gazing at the picture as my wife told me of the "wedding" makes sense to me now as a widower. There is an eternal wedding but they are on the other side of the great devide – the pain of rememberence and the dark tones that troubled my young eyes is all too understood now, "grief is the price we pay for love".
A marriage cert a double death cert and the promise of eternal life beyond the crucifixion.
Keep up the wonderful work correcting my colour blindness of so many paintings – sacred and secular.
Good luck and God bless you all in all you do!
1:47:57 Greta Thunberg !
Let's invite the invisible cyber audience enjoy studying fine arts painters secrets during the lunch time as well. Caravaggio is an ltalian small town. .. Michelangelo Merisi was from Caravaggio and his name became that one. He painted mostly himself, he was like usual catholics, feeling so guilty of anything and everything, including his own way on using the light, that precise candle light kind of mysterious shadows, the evil is there in the dark pushing you always doing terrible things, very realistic, another artists much more ahead for his ages, so realistic so …cruel. Very affascinating indeed. You need to take time and …read his paintings like novels
1.11 America is 2 (or 3) continents, not a country. The USA came along much later after Amerigo went to sea.
The last one by Van Eyck was my favourite, the minute details in the mirror are incredible and the interpretation of the painting is haunting.
Excellent series
Thank you, Perspective, Thank you, YouTube!
Would it be possible for WaldemarJanuszczak to save all of his work in written words (book) because all of his stories are the masterpieces about the masterpieces and they should be saved and distributed as permanently and easy as possible.
24:15 THIS was the notion of a hot date?!? I know they didn't have movies back then but couldn't he have taken her to the theater? He had to pay for either, so why choose this? (Maybe the anatomy lesson was cheaper…)
Totally enthralling series! Shame it's only 1080p though….
It's un-finished due to cash flow issue ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฐ
Regarding Arnolfini, does anyone else remember a BBC2 play for today where a group of scientists used (V early) digital photography techniques to analyse every millimetre of the picture? It flipped back and forth between the scientists interaction during the experiment and the in scene vocal interactions of Mr & Mrs Arnolfini?
These works of art are like photographs Into the time period that they were created and Waldemar is the focusing of a camera lens as he pours detail and color and background and contemporary history and most of all his passion into each picture.
We are fortunate to have Waldemar.
Nobody tells an art story like Waldemar! I could watch his documentaries for hours.
58:47 Amusing. When describing the sexual appetites of immortal Zeus, Waldemar Januszczak evocatively elucidates the mythical figure's proclivities as, "Clinton-equely insatiable".
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I am of the firm opinion that in the Tulp painting, the guy at lower left was added after the fact, perhaps by another hand. The guy is just wrong – in composition, perspective, and color.
thank you Waldemar. You always make me laugh at some point and I will never look at art like I used to, again. If you ever need a language coach for Dutch painter's names, I'm offering my services ๐ For instance Van Gof… mweh… say it like you have just got a fly in your throat and need to get rid of it. Van Goggggggg, like aaaargh
Mr at history genius can we HAVE PART TWO OF PICASSO S PLEAAAAAAAAASE ๐ญ
I spy the white undershirt Giorgione painted as a phallus.
*a common representation of fertility used throughout art history
"Point out the absurdity of what the old Masters showed us". Might it be to show the absurdity of the "Renaissance" of old master style that was considered good art at the time, ie, the kind of art the bougoisie was buying…? I have seen these incredibly stilted versions of Renaissance art that were being bought at all the art house of the time, stiff pieces, usually in pastels, that looked like they were spit out of a machine.
Since there were specific "masterpieces" references, as you explain, perhaps not… But the banal crap that passed for fine art which the Impressionist and post Impressionist we're reacting to .. this was the first thing that popped out at me.
(Yes, the Manet piece. Very sad…)
Another masterpiece!
Mr and Mrs Andrews is a picture captivating enough. Intriguing the detail on her lap not being finalized in painting it. However as I have an eye for art appreciation I think that to have placed a dead bird there wouldn't have worked aesthetically for me. Maybe was left as an abstract blob to better blend in with the beautiful dusky pink dress. However, Mrs Andrews face I find it very unfriendly and almost menacing.๐คจ
I too am an art lover. my walls are covered with beautiful prints of my favorite artists. So it's fitting to say that I Absolutely love your channel and not only your historical knowledge but the way you sprinkle everything with humor and conjecture. Thank you Valdermar.
Sorry, "Waldermar"
Aphro – dite ….Aphros means foam in Greek
Valdemar, sounds danish ๐๐ฉ๐ฐ
awesome stuff…..are you making any new ones?……the pandemic and general idleness has allowed me to enjoy your entire oeuvre and feel gulity watching reruns
Could the feather in Mrs. Andrews' lap be a quill pen with which she was about to sign a title deed or something???????
Had that lady in the 1st painting invited me to her country house for a weekend, unlike Mr Waldemar, "I" would have gladly accepted…and she would've had a smile in that painting along with very lively rosy cheeks and "unspeakable" memories ๐
Getting really tired of blacks in every commercial. Makes me hate the companies, this is a form of anti-advertising.