Athena Art Foundation
The collaborative platform promoting pre-modern art for all. Athena Art Foundation is a not-for-profit platform, sharing ideas and resources about pre-20th-century art from around the world. Subscribe for regular informative videos about great artworks and exhibitions.
Some of our current projects include:
• Athena Asks - our podcast featuring curators, artists and art historians talking about new exhibitions
• Overlooked Art History - a series of introductory videos exploring figures in art history who have been historically overlooked
• Free online events with guest speakers - https://www.athenaartfoundation.org/online-events
We always love to hear your feedback and thoughts. Get in touch with us via Instagram @athenaartfoundation or visit our website www.athenaartfoundation.org
Impressions of Empire symposium Day 2
Impressions of Empire symposium Day 1
Athena talks to the curators of the National Gallery of Art's Little Beasts
Dr Caroline Campbell on Siena: The Rise of Painting 1300 - 1500
Jacob Willer on Connecting the Old Masters and Creativity Now
Curator Dr Maggie Crosland on the new cross-cultural "Medieval" gallery at St Louis Art Museum
Jane Simpkiss discusses 'Two Women Wearing Cosmetic Patches' (c.1655)
Dr Nicola Jennings talks to painter Volker Hermes about his Self Portraits and Digital Inventions
Dr Nicola Jennings and artist Susan Wilson on Spanish painting and Hispanic culture
Susan Stronge talks to Abigail Spencer about curating ‘The Great Mughals’ at London’s V&A
Dolce and Gabbana in Paris: A Grand Art Historical Tour through Fashion
Abigail Spencer asks artists Livvy Kemp and Mark Connolly about their podcast, Notes on a Painting
Goya and Africa
Madeleine Haddon in conversation with Nicola Jennings about the new V&A East Museum and Storehouse
Dr Eleanor Jackson on Medieval Women in their own Words
The Stories behind Paintings: Masculinity and Dignity in The Floor Scrapers (1875)
Farkhondeh Ahmadzadeh talks to Nicola Jennings about her work in the Persian manuscript tradition
Did Michelangelo hide secret messages in The Sistine Chapel?
Costa Rica and Art History, with Abigail Spencer, Daniela Murillo and Adrian Arguedas.
Symposium on Viceregal Art of Latin American and Brazil Sessions 2 and 3
Symposium on Viceregal Art of Latin American and Brazil Session 1
The Stories Behind Paintings: Virtue and Desire in Leonardo's Woman with a Unicorn
The Stories Behind Paintings: Anne Boleyn's Complex Legacy
The Stories Behind Paintings: Martyrdom and Misogyny
Art Across Time: Bill Viola's digital display of the universal themes of Art History
Athena Asks: Susannah Morgan talks to Nicola Jennings about Resurrection and the Disabled Body
Athena X Broadwick: Sarah Vowles talks about the dazzling drawings of Michelangelo's final decades
Cocktails with Patrick Michael Hughes
Aaron Douglas: Chronicler of African American History through Painting
Cocktails with Athena: Adrienne Childs and Nicola Jennings discuss the Harlem Renaissance