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PODCAST: Imagining the Afterlife through Ancient Vases

Exploring the scenes of Hades’s kingdom on elaborate funerary pottery

41:28

Seeing the results of a multi-year conservation project

30:07

Reexamining forced labor and its depictions in metropolitan France

33:27

Objects tell the story of over one thousand years of Persian rule

38:44

Highlights from a 70-year career

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How artists and doctors made sense of the human form

42:37

Getty exhibition combines 17th-century paintings with antiquities and contemporary dance

53:38

How a 17th-century female artist succeeded in a world dominated by men

48:38

A story of the Maya cosmos, politics, and adventure told through a carved stone lintel from the first millennium CE

49:40

A 17th-century artist’s fascination with classical antiquity

38:31

Planning the future of a millennia-old heritage site in Myanmar

42:47

How a Northern Renaissance artist captured the essence of humanist thinkers and British nobility in timeless paintings

45:50