Ross King | Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies
Recorded Nov 22, 2016
Direct Download:
20161122-rosskin.mp3
“With a fiction writer’s feel for character” (Philadelphia Inquirer), Ross King is the author of several nonfiction works that situate art within the context of the history in which it was born, including the New York Times bestsellers Brunelleschi’s Dome, Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling, The Judgment of Paris, and Leonardo and the Last Supper—an examination of Da Vinci’s transcendence of political, religious, and inner turmoil to create the masterpiece that would forever define him. In Mad Enchantment, King paints a portrait of the artistic struggles and personal torments churning below the pre-eminent Impressionist’s tranquil creations.
Meelya Gordon Memorial Lecture
Other Great Podcasts
- Paul Hendrickson | Fighting the Night: Iwo Jima, WW II and a Flyer’s Life
- Jen Psaki | Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World
- Karen Valby | The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History
- Amy Tan | The Backyard Bird Chronicles
- Bakari Sellers | The Moment: Thoughts on the Race Reckoning That Wasn't and How We All Can Move Forward Now
- Lydia Millet | We Loved it All: A Memory of Life