In this full series compilation of Every Picture Tells A Story, Waldemar Januszczak sets out to unlock the hidden meanings contained within some of the world’s most famous paintings.
00:00:00 Ep 1: Thomas Gainsborough’s “Mr and Mrs Andrews.”
00:20:55 Ep 2: Rembrandt’s “The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp.”
00:42:28 Ep 3: Giorgione’s “The Tempest.”
01:04:53 Ep 4: Sandro Botticelli’s “The Birth of Venus.”
01:28:20 Ep 5: Caravaggio’s “Boy Bitten by a Lizard.”
01:51:52 Ep 6: Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa.”
02:15:11 Ep 7: Edouard Manet’s “Déjeuner sur L’Herbe”
02:38:37 Ep 8: Jan van Eyck’s “The Arnolfini Portrait”
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This allis incredibly fascinating. I am listening breathlessly. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!
My second time watching this and I love it. Mona Lisa in Napoleons bedroom! LOL! The Tempest I have always thought represented the Holy family's Flight into Egypt. A stretch I know and missing the not so subtle pyramid shaped rock in the background that would be expected. The tempest lighting storm to me represented the looming danger of the massacre of the innocents.
Great stories, interesting art! I love how the camera returns to/ lingers on the art as we hear about it so we can dream along.
I LOVE his storytelling like nobody else can do it!!
Brillant analysis, clever dissertation, speaking in simple plain and true manners
I've learned so much!!
Can listen to him for ever
Thx Waldemar!!!
Waldemar Januszczak is just brilliant!
the meaning convayed in the tempest i think was obvious on day one, without knoledge of the history. great stuff as usual walderma" thanks,
Very few people or groups, can make long videos like this.
Mythology ISNT mythology
I love this guy
I'm betting there's a line of frogs waiting to punch this cad in the mouth…
IMO it's a forgery.
They are plainly elite transgenders.
CGI FAKERY: no birds or insects.
Art is a hidden language. Only few truly understand it.
Maar goed dat ik niet een gecastreerde Mona ben die onder een bed verstopt wordt het idee alleen al 😅
Why are so many frames on art just garish? They fight with the art for attention. Why so much Baroque ornaments on non Baroque period art? So Tacky and Museums should know better. All those over educated staff …but it's kind of a reverse Emperor's Clothes situation. Of course since every thing is done by Committee, the status quo reigns.
1st of all ur anus dosent have testicles there’s a taint between em
Vind de Dobson ondanks het heel naar overkomt een heel emotioneel schilderij maar zoiets gebeurt vaak in een droom of in voorwerpen dat men een duidelijk beeld krijgt zoals in deze schilderij en bij deze genius 😅verteller kan men uiteindelijk niet omheen 😅 een hemels geschenk
Been to almost all the great art museums in the world. Always wondered if this Giorgioni is so valuable and you could not film the painting, but you can walk right up to the painting and start slashing. that's why I believe the are copies, not the actual paintings
And it seems ironic that The Anatomy painting is so striking one can literally just casually stroll by it….
Waldemar is brilliant
Brilliant.
I like the Arnolfini painting. I've wondered for years why he would be dressed as for a funeral & look so glum – now I know. Great unravelling of mysteries by WJ – as ever – and fascinating viewing.
Brilliant…you're just Brilliant I say…
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Getting really tired of blacks in every commercial. Makes me hate the companies, this is a form of anti-advertising.
Had that lady in the 1st painting invited me to her country house for a weekend, unlike Mr Waldemar, "I" would have gladly accepted…and she would've had a smile in that painting along with very lively rosy cheeks and "unspeakable" memories 😘
Could the feather in Mrs. Andrews' lap be a quill pen with which she was about to sign a title deed or something???????
awesome stuff…..are you making any new ones?……the pandemic and general idleness has allowed me to enjoy your entire oeuvre and feel gulity watching reruns
Valdemar, sounds danish 😀🇩🇰
Aphro – dite ….Aphros means foam in Greek
Sorry, "Waldermar"
I too am an art lover. my walls are covered with beautiful prints of my favorite artists. So it's fitting to say that I Absolutely love your channel and not only your historical knowledge but the way you sprinkle everything with humor and conjecture. Thank you Valdermar.
Mr and Mrs Andrews is a picture captivating enough. Intriguing that the detail on her lap is left casually painted as an abstract blob. I think in that way it better blends with the beautiful dusky pink dress., Nevertheless I find Mrs Andrews face very unfriendly and almost menacing.🤨
Another masterpiece!
(Yes, the Manet piece. Very sad…)
I spy the white undershirt Giorgione painted as a phallus.
*a common representation of fertility used throughout art history
Mr at history genius can we HAVE PART TWO OF PICASSO S PLEAAAAAAAAASE 😭
thank you Waldemar. You always make me laugh at some point and I will never look at art like I used to, again. If you ever need a language coach for Dutch painter's names, I'm offering my services 🙂 For instance Van Gof… mweh… say it like you have just got a fly in your throat and need to get rid of it. Van Goggggggg, like aaaargh
I am of the firm opinion that in the Tulp painting, the guy at lower left was added after the fact, perhaps by another hand. The guy is just wrong – in composition, perspective, and color.
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58:47 Amusing. When describing the sexual appetites of immortal Zeus, Waldemar Januszczak evocatively elucidates the mythical figure's proclivities as, "Clinton-equely insatiable".
Nobody tells an art story like Waldemar! I could watch his documentaries for hours.
These works of art are like photographs Into the time period that they were created and Waldemar is the focusing of a camera lens as he pours detail and color and background and contemporary history and most of all his passion into each picture.
We are fortunate to have Waldemar.
Regarding Arnolfini, does anyone else remember a BBC2 play for today where a group of scientists used (V early) digital photography techniques to analyse every millimetre of the picture? It flipped back and forth between the scientists interaction during the experiment and the in scene vocal interactions of Mr & Mrs Arnolfini?
It's un-finished due to cash flow issue 💰💰💰
Totally enthralling series! Shame it's only 1080p though….
24:15 THIS was the notion of a hot date?!? I know they didn't have movies back then but couldn't he have taken her to the theater? He had to pay for either, so why choose this? (Maybe the anatomy lesson was cheaper…)
Thank you, Perspective, Thank you, YouTube!
Would it be possible for WaldemarJanuszczak to save all of his work in written words (book) because all of his stories are the masterpieces about the masterpieces and they should be saved and distributed as permanently and easy as possible.