Season 5, Episode 3: Swans, Brothels, and Trump

Waldy and Bendy takes a deep dive into the best depictions of swans in art, and looks at how Trump's goldification of the White House has an art historic precedent. Bendy chooses a painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence for On The Wall, and tries to convince Waldy of it's connection to Michelangelo.

Bacchus by Caravaggio

BENDOR GROSVENOR HAD A FARM

Swan Upping in Cookham by Stanley Spencer

Travoys Arriving with Wounded at a Dressing-Station at Smol, Macedonia, September 1916 by Stanley Spencer

Cookmaid with Still Life of Birds by Nathaniel Bacon

A Meat Stall with the Holy Family Giving Alms by Pieter Aertsen

Cookmaid with Still Life of Vegetables and Fruit by Nathaniel Bacon

The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch

Detail of Joseph washing the nappies in The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch

Detail of the swan sign in The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch

The Silver Swan at Bowes Museum, by James Cox and John Joseph Merlin

The Peacock Clock in the Hermitage Museum by James Cox

Portrait of John Joseph Merlin by Thomas Gainsbury

Leda and the Swan after Michelangelo

The Rape of Europa by Titian

Jupiter and Io by Correggio

Leda and the Swan by Rubens

Leda and the Swan by Cornelis Bos

Leda and the Swan by Raphael

Studies for the Head of Leda by Michelangelo

TRUMP'S WHITE HOUSE

The White House, photo by Matt Wade

Jackie Kennedy's rose garden.

Photo by Brendan Smialowski

Photo by Jabin Botsford

Photo by Chip Somodevilla

ON THE WALL

Portrait of Isabella Wolff by Sir Thomas Lawrence

The Delphic sybil from the Sistine Ceiling

Bendor's swan shape

The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne by Michelangelo

Freud's vulture shape