The Bigger Picture: Your Favourite Art History Podcast

Colour, Culture and Change: Mousson’s Slovak Impressionism

Step into the colour, heat and lively bustle of At the Market in Michalovce (1935), a dazzling market scene by Slovak Impressionist painter Jozef Teodor Mousson. In this

The Art of Standing Together: Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People

Why does Eugène Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People still feel so powerful nearly two centuries after the July Revolution of 1830? In this episode of The Bigger Pictur

Why are they Naked? Jacques-Louis David and the Intervention of the Sabine Women

In this episode of The Bigger Picture, Dr Peter Tuka explores Jacques-Louis David’s monumental Neoclassical masterpiece The Intervention of the Sabine Women, now in the L

"I Am a Mother and an Artist": Mierle Laderman Ukeles & Maintenance Art

In this episode of The Bigger Picture, Dr Peter Tuka explores Mierle Laderman Ukeles’ groundbreaking 1973 performance Washing/Tracks/Maintenance: Outside, a defining work

At the Edge of the Frame: Degas’ The Rehearsal and its Beautifully Bad Composition

This episode of The Bigger Picture explores Edgar Degas’ The Rehearsal (c.1874), one of the most fascinating paintings of 19th-century French art, now in the Burrell Coll

To See and Be Seen: Mary Cassatt’s In the Loge (1878)

In this episode of The Bigger Picture, Dr Peter Tuka explores Mary Cassatt’s In the Loge (1878), a powerful Impressionist painting of modern Paris, theatre culture, and t

The Venus of the Gutter: Decoding Manet’s Olympia

In this episode of The Bigger Picture, Dr Peter Tuka explores Édouard Manet’s Olympia, the scandalous 1863 painting that shocked the 1865 Paris Salon and became one of th

No Gods, No Masters, Just Luncheon on the Grass

In this episode of The Bigger Picture, Dr Peter Tuka explores Édouard Manet’s Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe (The Luncheon on the Grass), one of the most important masterpieces

The Art of Agony: Medicine and Monsters of the Isenheim Altarpiece

In this episode of The Bigger Picture, Dr Peter Tuka explores one of the most haunting masterpieces of Northern Renaissance art: Matthias Grünewald’s Isenheim Altarpiece.

The Geometry of God: Masaccio's Holy Trinity

In this episode of The Bigger Picture, Dr Peter Tukaexplores Masaccio’s The Holy Trinity, one of the most revolutionary works of Early Renaissance art. Discover how this

The Renaissance Inception: Decoding Botticelli’s $92 Million Puzzle

In this episode of The Bigger Picture, Dr Peter Tuka explores Sandro Botticelli’s Portrait of a Young Man Holding a Roundel, one of the most intriguing masterpieces of th

Painting Begins Where the World Ends: The Psychedelic Attack of Oleg Holosiy

In this episode of The Bigger Picture, Dr Peter Tuka explores Oleg Holosiy’s monumental 1990 painting Psychedelic Attack of the Blue Rabbits – a key work of the Ukrainian

The World on its Head: A Tribute to Georg Baselitz (1938-2026)

In this bonus episode of The Bigger Picture, Dr Peter Tuka explores Portrait of Elke I (1969) by German artist Georg Baselitz — one of his first upside-down (inverted) pa

Decommissioned Dreams and New Beginnings: Nikita Gashunin and Art After the USSR

In Episode 6 of The Bigger Picture, host Dr Peter Tuka explores The Fly (1991) by Russian artist Nikita Gashunin — a piece of Russian modern sculpture and post-Soviet con

The Arms That Shook the System: Kovanda, Havel, and the Art of Disobedience

Prague, 1976. One man. Arms wide open. A crowdthat won’t come near. In this episode of The Bigger Picture, Dr Peter Tuka dives into Czech conceptual art and Eastern Europ

Back to the Future: Each of us is Friedrich’s Wanderer above the Sea of Fog

In this episode of The Bigger Picture, art historian Dr Peter Tuka offers an in‑depth exploration of Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer above the Sea of Fog (c.1818), a co

A Fjord-ian Slip: Edvard Munch’s The Scream as the Art History's Original Panic Attack

In this episode of The Bigger Picture, art historian Dr PeterTuka offers a deep, psychologically rich exploration of EdvardMunch’s The Scream, unpacking its enduring powe

Bonnets, Blessings, and Brawls: Gauguin’s Wrestling with the Unseen

In this episode of The Bigger Picture, art historian Dr Peter Tuka delivers an in‑depth art history podcast analysis of Paul Gauguin’s Vision after the Sermon (1888), a l

Snakes, Swords, and Shadow Selves: A Deep Dive into Caravaggio's Masterpiece

The Bigger Picture: your favourite art history podcast, launches with a powerful and intellectually rich episode dedicated to Caravaggio’s Medusa (1597), offering a compe