Waldy & Bendy's Adventures in Art / Season 2, Episode 5

Waldy tries to convince Bendy of the wonders of Rococo, and they both put on their wellies and stomp back to the farm to look at cats in art. Plus Lynette Yiadom-Boakye.

ROCOCO

Ceiling frescoe in Würzburg Residence (completed 1780)

Church of Wies (1745-1754)

Ca’ Rezzonico, Venice – Murano glass chandelier (mid 18th century)

 

Meissen German porcelain figurine (19th century) after model by J.J. Kandler and P.J. Reineke

The Parasol (1777) by Francisco Goya (1746-1828)

John and Sophia Musters riding at Colwick Hall (1777) by George Stubbs (1724-1806)

The Triumph of Venus (1740) by François Boucher (1703-1770)

Marie-Louise O’Murphy (1752) by François Boucher

Madame de Pompadour (1756) by Francois Boucher

The Love Song (c. 1717) by Antoine Watteau (1684-1721)

The Swing (1767) by Jean-Honore Fragonard (1732-1806)

 

Two Bookcases (1754) by Thomas Chippendale (1718-1779)

Queen Charlotte (c. 1781) by Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788)

Miss Mary Edwards (1742) by William Hogarth (1697-1764)

Waldemar talks about the Rococo stucco. Part 1, Part 2.

CATS

Cats, lions, and a dragon (c. 1517-18) by Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)

Kitty Fisher (1765) by Nathaniel Hone (1718-1784)

Untitled (1995) from the Ray’s a Laugh series by Richard Billingham (1970-)

Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird (1940) by Frida Kahlo (1907-1954)

Olympia (1863) by Eduard Manet (1832-1883)

Kitty Fisher and parrot (1763/4) by Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792)

Venus of Urbino (1534) by Titian (c. 1488/90 – 1576)

ON THE WALL

Charles Edward Stuart (1770) by Laurent Pechaux (1729-1821)

A Passion Like No Other (2012) by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (1977-)