1: The Scarab in Ancient Egypt
Welcome to the SCARABsolutions Ancient Art Podcast. Join us in each episode as we explore the art and culture of the Ancient Mediterranean World. Together we’ll uncover the truths and discover new...
View Article2: The Mummy Case of Paankhenamun
Please excuse the theme music. It looks like I’ve still got a little Halloween in me. But it helps set the stage as we begin the unwrap the dead … Hello and welcome back to the SCARABsolutions Ancient...
View Article3: A Donkey-headed Rhyton
Hello and welcome back to the SCARABSolutions Ancient Art Podcast. In the previous two episodes, we’ve been having a lot of fun in Ancient Egypt. In this episode, we’re going to jump forward a little...
View Article4: Statue of Osiris
Hello and welcome back to the SCARABsolutions Ancient Art Podcast, your guidebook to the art and culture of the Ancient Mediterranean World. I’m your host Lucas Livingston. In our second podcast...
View Article5: A Corinthian Pyxis
Welcome back to the SCARABsolutions Ancient Art Podcast. This episode is coming out a little later than I had wanted on account of a cold that I’ve been getting over. But I’m pretty much decongested...
View Article6: A Classical Lekythos
Hello and welcome back to the SCARABsolutions Ancient Art Podcast. In our last episode on the Art Institute of Chicago’s Corinthian pyxis, we saw how the early Archaic Greeks of the Orientalizing...
View Article7: Gandharan Bodhisattva
Hello and welcome back to the SCARABsolutions Ancient Art Podcast. Or rather, you could be welcoming me back after this couple month hiatus from cyberspace. But we’re back online and good to go. So,...
View Article8: Cicadas
It’s Sunday afternoon, June 10th, 2007 and I’m standing on a trail in the Chippewa Woods Forest Preserve in Des Plaines, Illinois, just a mile or so northeast of O’Hare Airport. You hear that...
View ArticleMore Cicada Resources
We’ve got so many interesting resources on cicadas from this month’s podcast, that I thought it best to give them their own place online. Indiana University’s award-winning film Return of the 17-Year...
View Article9: Walk Like an Egyptian
So, looking back at some of the Egyptian statuary that we’ve discussed in earlier episodes of the podcast, seeing the fine contours of the physique and careful attention to proportion and perspective,...
View Article10: The Parthenon Frieze, Part 1
Hello and welcome back to the SCARABsolutions Ancient Art Podcast, your guidebook to the art and culture of the Ancient Mediterranean World. I’m your host on our far-flung journey, Lucas Livingston....
View ArticleMore Parthenon and Persepolis Resources
As mentioned in episode 10, I have a number of good resources to share on the Parthenon, her frieze, and Persepolis. Check these out… THE PARTHENON The British Museum • Galleries of the Parthenon...
View Article11: The Parthenon Frieze, Part 2
Welcome back to the SCARABsolutions Ancient Art Podcast, your guidebook to the Ancient Mediterranean World, picking up where Pausanias left off. First a brief technical note. After publishing episode...
View Article12: The Parthenon Frieze, Part 3
Welcome back to the SCARABsolutions Ancient Art Podcast. I’m your host, Lucas Livingston, your guide on our journey across the Ancient Mediterranean World. Last time in Episode 11, The Parthenon...
View Article13: Ellsworth Kelly’s “Chicago Panels”
Hello again and welcome back to the SCARABsolutions Ancient Art Podcast. Please bear with me for a minute as I make a brief technical note. If Episode 11: The Parthenon Frieze, Part 2 was the last...
View Article14: Ra-Horakhty
Thanks for coming back to the SCARABsolutions Ancient Art Podcast. As always, I’m your host, Lucas Livingston. In this episode, I want to discuss some of the basic formal concepts of Egyptian...
View Article15: Origin of Greek Sculpture
Hey folks. Lucas Livingston here at the SCARABsoltuions Ancient Art Podcast. Great to have you back. In this episode, we’ll take a brief look at the historical climate that gave rise to Greek...
View Article16: Metropolitan Kouros
Hey people. Welcome back. I’m excited to announce that we’re undergoing a little re-branding here. We’re dropping the SCARABsolutions and now it’s the Ancient Art Podcast. The website...
View Article17: Alsdorf Galleries of Indian, Southeast Asian, Himalayan, and Islamic Art
Hi everyone. Welcome back to the Ancient Art Podcast. I’m your host Lucas Livingston. You may have noticed … or maybe not … that the Ancient Art Podcast is now available on YouTube. Just head on over...
View Article18: Ancient Olympics, Part 1, the Foundation
Hello and welcome back to the Ancient Art Podcast. I’m Lucas Livingston, your guide on our foray through the Ancient World. In this episode, we’ll travel back to Ancient Greece to witness a...
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