Season 6, Episode 2: Bombs, Leonardo and Motherhood

Waldy and Bendy discuss the devastating destruction in Iran, Russia's participation in the Venice Biennale, and Leonardo's Salvator Mundi. Bendy also tells Waldy of his adventures at TEFAF, while Waldy celebrates a belated Mother's Day with an Alice Neel painting.

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Destruction in Chehel Sotoun palace

The Adoration of the Golden Calf by Nicolas Poussin

Desert palace

Interior of Quasr Amra

Photo by Dosseman - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=84248708

Dome of the Rock, photo by Emilio García from Parla, Spain - Cúpula de la Roca, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=83096295

Interiors from Dome of the Rock

The Painter on the Road to Tarascon by Vincent Van Gogh

The Russian Pavillion at the Venice Biennale

Maffeo Barberini, a powerful cleric and the future Pope Urban VIII by Caravaggio

Young Sick Bacchus by Caravaggio

Bacchus by Caravaggio

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TEFAF in Maastrichi

Village on Fire by Joseph Wright of Derby

Rokeby Venus by Diego Velazquez

Man with a Plumed Red Beret by Willem Drost

Max Eder and American Monuments Men recovering Johannes Vermeer’s The Art of Painting and Willem Drost’s Man With a Plumed Red Beret from the salt mines of Altaussee, Austria, 1945. Photo: courtesy Agnews Gallery

Salvator Mundi by Leonardo da Vinci

Salvator Mundi by workshop of Leonardo da Vinci

The Prado Mona Lisa

Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci

A portrait of Leonardo c.1515-18 attributed to Francesco Melzi

ON THE WALL

Mother and Child (Nancy and Olivia) by Alice Neel

Laundress and Her Child (Aline and Pierre) by Renoir

Madonna and Child by Guido Reni

Andy Warhol by Alice Neel