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Khan Academy: Jan Gossart: Conservation Discoveries
This video [9:29] Gossart was among the first northern artists to travel to Rome to make copies after antique sculpture and introduce historical and mythological subjects with erotic nude figures into the mainstream of northern painting....
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Khan Academy: Craftsman Allan Breed Carves a Bow Knot and Thunderbolt Crest
This video [5:55] craftsman Allan Breed demonstrates low-relief carving, taking us through the creation of a bow knot and thunderbolt crest motif after the renowned nineteenth-century furniture maker Duncan Phyfe. As he works, Breed...
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Khan Academy: Craftsman Allan Breed Turns and Carves a Duncan Phyfe Bedpost
In this video [6:58] Allan Breed turns and carves a bedpost after the renowned nineteenth-century furniture maker Duncan Phyfe, taking us through the carving of a leaf motif. As he works, Breed explains the cuts, the tools, and the...
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Khan Academy: Fiesta! Celebrate Latin America: Celebren America Latina
In this video [1:46] Connect and celebrate during our annual Museum-wide festival celebrating Latin America!
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Khan Academy: Conserving the Damascus Room at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
This video [3:19] features the Damascus Room [1707] which served as the reception area within a Syrian home of the Ottoman period. Extensive conservation and historical research were carried out by the Metropolitan Museum in preparation...
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Khan Academy: Conserving the Emperors Carpet
This video [8:33] focuses on the magnificent sixteenth-century Emperor's Carpet from Safavid Iran was acquired by the Metropolitan Museum in 1941, but its condition was so fragile that it was only displayed for public twice over the next...
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Khan Academy: Congyi, Cloudy Mountains
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...
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Khan Academy: Homer, Northeaster
In this video [2:48] Met curator H. Barbara Weinberg on the power of nature in Winslow Homer's Northeaster, 1895; reworked by 1901.
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Khan Academy: El Greco, View of Toledo
In this video [2:45] Met curator George Goldner on first impressions in El Greco's View of Toledo. In his greatest surviving landscape, El Greco portrays the city he lived and worked in for most of his life. The painting belongs to the...
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Khan Academy: Gifford, a Gorge in the Mountains (Kauterskill Clove)
In this video [2:42] Met curator Betsy Kornhauser on solace in Sanford Robinson Gifford's A Gorge in the Mountains (Kauterskill Clove), 1862.
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Khan Academy: Fenton, Landscape With Clouds
In this video [2:45] Met curator Malcolm Daniel on humility in Roger Fenton's [Landscape with Cloud], probably 1856.
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Khan Academy: Cylinder Seal & Modern Impression:nude Bearded Hero Wrestling
In this video [2:26] Met curator Yelena Rakic on reading into Cylinder seal and modern impression: nude bearded hero wrestling with a water buffalo; bull-man wrestling with lion from Mesopotamia, c. 2250-2150 B.C.E.
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Khan Academy: Marble Capital and Finial in the Form of a Sphinx
In this video [2:40] Met curator Kiki Karoglou on dangerous beauty in Marble capital and finial in the form of a sphinx dating from the Attic period of ancient Greece, ca. 530 B.C.E. This capital and sphinx originally crowned the tall...
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Khan Academy: Ewer
In this video [2:51] Met curator Ellenor Alcorn on the creative moment in Ewer, a work of Chinese porcelain with English mounts, 1573-1620; mounts c. 1585. The ewer shown here is one of a group of Chinese porcelains of the Wan Li period...
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Khan Academy: Tiffany, Hair Ornament
In this video [2:34] Met curator Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen on transience in Louis Comfort Tiffany's Hair Ornament, c. 1904.
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Khan Academy: Card Table
In this video [2:34] Met curator Peter Kenny on international style in Charles-Honore Lannuier's Card table, 1817. This card table with a sculpture quality, was created in New York by a French artist.
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Khan Academy: Hunt, the Great Hall
In this video [2:53] Met curator Morrison Heckscher on form and function in Richard Morris Hunt's The Great Hall.
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Khan Academy: Poiret, Paris
In this video [2:35] Met curator Harold Koda on the genius of design in Paul Poiret's Paris, 1919. This garment was made of a single piece of material and had only one seam.
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Khan Academy: Saddle (Gser Sga) From Derge, Tibet
This video [2:51] is Met curator Donald La Rocca on cultural continuity in Saddle [gser sga] from Derge, Tibet, c. 1942-46. This example demonstrates the long tradition of finely made and ornately decorated ceremonial saddles flourished...
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Khan Academy: Statue of Two Men and a Boy That Served as a Domestic Icon
In this video [2:47] Met curator Marsha Hill on reverence in Statue of two men and a boy that served as a domestic icon dating from the Amarna Period of Egypt's New Kingdom, c. 1353-1336 B.C.E. The intriguing group has been variously...
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Khan Academy: Slit Gong (Atingting Kon)
In this video [2:22] Met curator Eric Kjellgren on communication in Slit Gong [Atingting kon] by the Tin Mweleun peoples of Ambrym Island in Vanuatu, mid to late 1960s. The towering slit gongs of northern Vanuatu are among the largest...
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Khan Academy: Bellini, Madonna and Child
In this video [2:43] Met curator Alison Manges Nogueira on familiarity in Giovanni Bellini's Madonna and Child, c. 1470
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Khan Academy: Carpeaux, Le Trait D'union
In this video [2:39] Met curator Jim Draper on healing in Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux's Le Trait d'Union, 1872. This is a small clay sculpture of a man, woman, and a child.
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Khan Academy: Wright, Living Room From the Little House, Wayzata, Minnesota
In this video [3:01] Met curator Amelia Peck on modern living in Frank Lloyd Wright's Living room from the Little House, Wayzata, Minnesota, 1912-15. The Frank Lloyd Wright Room was originally the living room of the summer residence of...