Explore masterful paintings of the 1400s"1500s. Masaccio's panel of St. Andrew, Sebastiano's Pope Clement VII painted on slate, the Halberdier by Pontormo, Van Dyck's Agostino Pallavicini, and La Tour's Gabriel Bernard de Rieux reveal...

In this video [2:05] join Sebastian, age 8, and learn what a copyist does as he interviews artist Jessica Artman in The Charles Engelhard Court at The Met.

Watch Jannis Kounellis combine painting music and dance. To learn more about what artists have to say, take our online course, Modern and Contemporary Art, 1945-1989. Created by The Museum of Modern Art. [1:49]

In this video [1:40] Marina Abramovic talks about how she shifted from painting to performance art. Created by The Museum of Modern Art.

This video [2:29] they did a lot of investigation on the painting "Palace of Curtains, III." The varnish was not something that Magritte would have chosen for this work. We realized that this painting should not be varnished. We first...

1913 was a banner year for Leger. It was the year in which he figured out how to become a Leger instead of a follower of Picasso or Braque. He did a large series of paintings entitled "Contrast of Form". Each of these examined the ways...

In this video [2:25] Met curator Maxwell K. Hearn on emptiness in Fang Congyi's Cloudy Mountains, second half of 14th century. Congyi,imbued with Daoist mysticism, painted landscapes that "turned the shapeless into shapes and returned...

In this video [2:48] Met curator H. Barbara Weinberg on the power of nature in Winslow Homer's Northeaster, 1895; reworked by 1901.

In this video [2:45] Met curator Maryan W. Ainsworth on the sense of sound in Jan van Eyck's The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, c. 1435-40. These exquisite paintings, juxtaposing Christ's sacrifice for the salvation of mankind with the...

In this video [2:55] Met curator Ian Alteveer on reticence in Jasper Johns's White Flag, 1955.

In this video [2:58] Met curator C. Griffith Mann on storytelling in the Master of Belmonte's Saint Michael, 1450-1500. The Archangel Michael is portrayed as a saint of the Church Militant. Armed with a coat of mail, a dagger, shield,...

Met associate director Carrie Rebora Barratt on leadership in John Trumbull's "The Sortie Made by the Garrison of Gibraltar", 1789. This painting depicts the events of the night of November 26, 1781, when British troops, long besieged by...

In this video [1:59] scientists from the Getty Conservation Institute attempt to recreate the method and materials used by Jackson Pollock to create his monumental painting, Mural. Created by Getty Museum.

In this video [2:20] Getty scientist Alan Phenix deploys the latest technology to uncover the hidden secrets of Jackson Pollock's Mural.

In this video [4:49] learn about the work of the Getty Museum's paintings conservation team. Created by Getty Museum.

In this video [1:59] Benjamin and Bryn talk about demons in Cenni's Coronation of the Virgin and Saints. This is from a tour at the Getty Center: The Supernatural in Art. Created by Getty Museum.

In this video [1:58] Benjamin and Devin talk about angels made by an English artist in about 1420-30. This is from an imaginative tour at the Getty Center: The Supernatural in Art. Created by Getty Museum.

In this video [1:36] listen to a commentary about the painting "An Allegory of Passion," by Hans Holbein the Younger in the J. Paul Getty Museum's collection. Part of the Animals in Art tour at the Getty Center. Created by Getty Museum.

In this video [1:43] listen to a commentary about the painting "A Hare in the Forest," Hans Hoffmann in the J. Paul Getty Museum's collection. Part of the Animals in Art tour at the Getty Center. Created by Getty Museum.

In this video [1:27] Kayla and Bryn talk about angels in a follower of Rogier van der Weyden's Deposition, c. 1490. This is from an imaginative tour at the Getty Center: The Supernatural in Art.

In this video [1:48] William talks about the angels in Giovanni Battista Tiepolo's Miracle of the Holy House of Loreto, c. 1744. This is from an imaginative tour at the Getty Center: The Supernatural in Art.

In this video [1:32] listen to a commentary about the painting "The Adoration of Magi With Saint Anthony Abbott" by a Franco-Flemish master from the J. Paul Getty Museum's collection. The commentary is presented by the pig in the painting.

In this video [10:55] discover the elements of art seen in such masterpieces as "The Dream of Pope Sergius" by van der Weyden, "La Promenade" by Renoir, "River Landscape" by Koninck, "Still Life with Apples" by Cezanne, "The Entombment"...

Gentileschi painted three women challenged in their devotion to God reflecting the Catholic belief that divine ecstasy can only be achieved when a woman chooses freely to love God. [2:11]