Author Interview: Jeannie Marshall's "All Things Move: Learning to Look in the Sistine Chapel"

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Arts, History, Visual Arts

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🗓️ 30 October 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Hello, listeners! I’ve got a special surprise for you this week. I’ve been waiting to share this amazing conversation that I enjoyed recently with expat and author Jeannie Marshall about her lovely book, All Things Move: Learning to Look in the Sistine Chapel. What do we hope to get out of seeing a famous piece of art? Jeannie Marshall asked that question of herself when she started visiting the Sistine Chapel frescoes. She wanted to understand their meaning and context―but in the process, she also found what she didn’t know she was looking for. All Things Move: Learning to Look in the Sistine Chapel tells the story of Marshall’s relationship with one of our most cherished artworks. Interwoven with the history of its making and the Rome of today, it’s an exploration of the past in the present, the street in the museum, and the way a work of art can both terrify and alchemize the soul. An impassioned defense of the role of art in a fractured age, All Things Move is a quietly sublime meditation on how our lives can be changed by art, if only we learn to look. About the author: Jeannie Marshall is a writer who has been living in Italy with her family since 2002. A nonfiction author, journalist, and former staff features writer at the National Post in Toronto, she contributes articles to Maclean's and the Walrus and has published literary nonfiction in The Common, the Literary Review of Canada, Brick, and elsewhere. Please enjoy this bonus episode, featuring my discussion with Jeannie. Be sure to grab your copy of All Things Move from Bookshop.org, below. If you prefer Amazon, that link is below as well. Please SUBSCRIBE and REVIEW our show on Apple Podcasts and FOLLOW on Spotify Instagram / Facebook / YouTube Buy All Things Move here! SPONSORS: Lume Deodorant: Control Body Odor ANYWHERE with @lumedeodorant and get over 40% off your starter pack with promo code ARTCURIOUS at lumedeodorant.com/ARTCURIOUS! #lumepod Shopify: Sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial period at shopify.com/artcurious Want to advertise/sponsor our show? We have partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle our advertising/sponsorship requests. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email [email protected] or click the link below to get started. https://www.advertisecast.com/ArtCuriousPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.6	Hey there, everybody. Welcome back and thank you for listening to another bonus episode today
0:35.9	with Art Curious. I am happy to share with
0:39.3	you an awesome conversation that I had this past summer with Jeannie Marshall, the author of
0:44.5	All Things Move, learning to look in the Sistine Chapel. I loved this book, which is a deeply
0:51.7	personal search for meaning in Michelangelo's frescoes, and also
0:56.4	an impassioned defense of the role of art in a fractured age. What do we hope to get out of seeing
1:02.6	a famous piece of art? Jeannie Marshall asked that question of herself when she started visiting
1:08.1	the Sistine Chapel frescoes. She wanted to understand their meaning and context,
1:13.3	but in the process, she also found what she didn't know she was looking for. All things move,
1:19.0	learning to look in the Sistine Chapel, tells the story of Marshall's relationship with one of our
1:23.7	most cherished artworks. Interwoven with the history of its making and the Rome of
1:28.6	today, it's an exploration of the past in the present, the street in the museum, and the way a work
1:35.2	of art can both terrify and alchemize the soul. All Things Move is a quietly sublime meditation
1:41.4	on how our lives can be changed by art, if only we learn to look.
1:46.5	Jeannie Marshall is a writer who has been living in Italy with her family since 2002.
1:51.2	She's a non-fiction author, a journalist, and a former staff writer at the National Post in Toronto,
1:56.6	and she contributes articles to McLean's and The Walrus, and has literary nonfiction published in The Common, the Literary Review of Canada, Brick, and Elsewhere.
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