Episode 2. Reading a Painted Landscape
by Makenzie Smith
A beginner’s guide to reading landscape paintings, as told by experts. A dialogue between a Curator of Art, Professor of Earth Sciences, Professor of Art History, and one of her students.
Learn More
● The William Benton Museum of Art https://benton.uconn.edu/
● Painting by William Louis Sonntag, Blue Ridge Wilderness (c. 1859) https://benton.uconn.edu/anthropocene-exhibition/anthropocene-exhibition-works-in-the-exhibition/sonntag-blue-ridge-wilderness/
Guests
Professor Elizabeth Athens, Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Connecticut; Professor Robert Thorson, Professor of Earth Sciences, University of Connecticut; Dr. Amanda Douberley, Assistant Curator/Academic Liaison, William Benton Museum of Art.
Transcript
Episode Credits
● Makenzie Smith: production, script, narration, sound mix
● Hannah Mechtenberg: final sound mix
● Alexander Filippides: Podcast theme music
● Owstu via Freesound.org: Piano motif (2)
● Exuberate via Freesound.org: Ambience interior museum cafe sounds
● Trygve Larsen via Pixabay.com: Classical Piano by Chopin, Ballade No-03 A flat Major Op-47