Crash Course
The Horrors of the Grand Guignol: Crash Course Theater #35
Prepare to be horrified, and to look into the face of inhumanity with the Grand Guignol. Mike Rugnetta teaches you about one of theater history's most horrible chapters. The Grand Guignol was a French theater based in Paris from the late...
Crash Course
Zola, France, Realism, and Naturalism: Crash Course Theater #31
This week, we're back in Europe to learn about Realism and Naturalism. In the 19th Century, playwrights like Eugene Scribe, Alexandre de Dumas Fils, and Emile Zola remade the French theater, first with Realism, and later with Naturalism....
Professor Dave Explains
Late Medieval Philosophy: Abelard, Avicenna, Aquinas, et al.
We've covered early medieval philosophy, so let's move forward to the later part of this era, which is called the Scholastic period. This is marked by a strong Aristotelian influence, as well as the rise of universities as we know them...
The Art Assignment
The Case for Realism
What's the point of making realistic paintings when photography can do the trick? We look at the history of artists recreating the world as we see it and ponder why it's still happening.
Crash Course
Zola, France, Realism, and Naturalism: Crash Course Theater #31
Using an informative video about French theater and drama, scholars learn about the idea of realism in the theater before taking a look at naturalism. Viewers hear about writing styles from Victor Hugo in his works Cromwell and Hernani,...
Crash Course
The Horrors of the Grand Guignol: Crash Course Theater #35
Fight or flight? Could a play be so scary that it makes the audience want to run from the theater? Andre de Lorde actually had the dream of writing such a play. Scholars learn of him and other French playwrights that focused on the...
Crash Course
Darwin and Natural Selection: Crash Course History of Science #22
Charles Darwin studied many species, but he also hindered their continued study by eating his specimens. Like many sailors, he enjoyed the taste of the Galapagos tortoise so much for many years that no ship made it all the way back to...
Curated OER
Charles Darwin, Part 1/3
A wonderfully humorous and irreverent take on the early life of Charles Darwin tracing his struggles at school to his arrival at the Galapagos. Part one of the three-part Greatest Scientists series narrated by Dr. Allan Chapman.
Curated OER
Who Was Charles Darwin?
ItÕs one of those big Ideas that changes our view of the world and our place in it. DarwinÕs observations lead him to believe that species, including man, change or evolve over time. This short video focuses on his reluctance to publish...
Crash Course
Crash Course Theater #31: Zola, France, Realism, and Naturalism
Do you know about Realism and Naturalism in the theater? Learn about how the French Theater was remade by playwrights such as Eugene Scribe, Alexandre de Dumas Fils, and Emile Zola. [12:36]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Form and Shape: Lesson 2
This lesson will explore form and shape as elements of composition and of the analysis of works of art. It is 2 of 3 in the series titled "Form and Shape."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Late Gothic/early Renaissance in Italy
This lesson will explore the transition toward a more humanist style in the arts that occurred in fourteenth-century Italian art.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: The Early Renaissance in Florence: Lesson 2
This lesson will explore the early Renaissance art of the city of Florence. It is 2 of 3 in the series titled "The Early Renaissance in Florence."