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The Getty Center, a campus of the J. Paul Getty Museum, in Los Angeles, California.
The Getty Center, a campus of the J. Paul Getty Museum, in Los Angeles, California.
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J. Paul Getty Museum: Manuscripts
A video discussion of Illuminated Manuscripts created during the Renaissance Period.
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J. Paul Getty Museum: Paintings
A video discussion of portrait paintings from various artists in early art history.
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J. Paul Getty Museum: Making Manuscripts
This video describes the process of creating an illuminated manuscript produced in the Renaissance and Middle Ages. Segment topics cover preparing a parchment paper, writing, illuminating, and binding.
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J. Paul Getty Museum: The Medieval Calendar
An very interesting video (RealAudio) on the calendar used by the Catholic Church during the Middle Ages. The video overs days, months, religious holidays and more.
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Khan Academy: Bored Angel and Twin
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.
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Khan Academy: 'A Hare in the Forest,' Hans Hoffmann
Listen to a commentary about a painting in the J. Paul Getty Museum's collection. Part of the Animals in Art tour at the Getty Center.
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Khan Academy: An Allegory of Passion,' Hans Holbein the Younger
Listen to a commentary about a painting in the J. Paul Getty Museum's collection. Part of the Animals in Art tour at the Getty Center.
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Khan Academy: Camilo Vergara Documents the Changing Urban Landscape
In 1967, Camilo Vergara recorded a dilapidated building in South Bend, Indiana. Vergara believes that the changing nature of buildings can reveal the social history of poor American neighborhoods. [2:24]
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Khan Academy: John Humble's Photographs of Los Angeles
Photographer John Humble has been documenting the Los Angeles landscape since the 1970s. [3:20]
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Khan Academy: Photographs: A Closer Look
See how photography is more than a mechanical art, but rather an art infused with imagination, as exemplified by works from photographers Cameron, Watkins, Kasebier, Ulmann, Evans, Stieglitz, Le Gray, and Hine. [3:05]
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Khan Academy: Eileen Cowin on Her Series 'I See What You're Saying'
Combining text and photography, contemporary artist Eileen Cowin explores narrative within her work. [2:30]
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Khan Academy: David Hockney's 'Pearblossom Hwy'
The artist David Hockney called his photo collages, "drawing with a camera." Here he discusses perspective and other issues in Pearblossom Hwy., 11-18th April 1986, #2. [3:11]
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J. Paul Getty Museum: Paris: Life and Luxury: French Mechanical Table
Highly decorative and cleverly designed table, which mechanically transforms into a desk at the turn of a key, epitomizes the richness of eighteenth-century French style before the French Revolution. [2:39]