TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Why should you read Dante's "Divine Comedy"? | Sheila Marie Orfano
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here... Inscribed above the Gate of Hell, this prophecy sets into motion an epic journey for salvation. Written over 10 years, Dante Alighieri's three-part narrative poem "Divine Comedy" is both an...
TED-Ed
TED-ED: Plato's Allegory of the Cave - Alex Gendler
Twenty four hundred years ago, Plato, one of history's most famous thinkers, said life is like being chained up in a cave forced to watch shadows flitting across a stone wall. Beyond sounding quite morbid, what exactly did he mean? Alex...
Curated Video
Julius Caesar 2.2 Historical Reference: Medieval Religious Practices
This video explores the historical and religious context of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar," specifically focusing on the practice of preserving relics and its allegorical use in the play. The discussion illuminates how Brutus's reference...
Wonderscape
Unveiling Allegories: A Journey Through Symbolic Stories
This video explores the concept of allegory, a figure of speech where abstract ideas and moral lessons are conveyed through characters and events in a story. It uses Aesop's fables, like "The Goose with the Golden Egg" and "The Boy Who...
Wonderscape
Exploring Figures of Speech: Symbolism and More
This video delves into various figures of speech, focusing on symbolism, allegory, onomatopoeia, paradox, and puns. It uses engaging examples, like Shakespeare's works, to explain how symbols convey complex, abstract ideas in literature,...
Curated Video
The Future of the Past
Classicist Richard Janko (Michigan) describes his motivation to find new perspectives of the past, and his excitement at the possibility of retrieving long-lost manuscripts.
Schooling Online
T.S. Eliot - Journey Of The Magi Lesson 1
Enjoy the Nativity story as you’ve never seen it before! In this lesson, we analyse lines 1-20 from ‘Journey of the Magi’ using easy explanations and fun visuals. Meet the famous Magi from the East and hear all about their tough journey...
Amor Sciendi
Allegory of Calumny: Changing the Canon of Art History
Here is our argument that Botticelli's Calumny of Apelles is the greatest example of the High Renaissance. Another example of resurrection in 15th century.
Amor Sciendi
An Allegory of Good Government in Sienna
Here we discuss the civics of Late Medieval Sienna through Ambrogio Lorenzetti's frescos in the Palazzo Publico.
Schooling Online
English Essentials - Next Level Knowledge - Values Approach to Essays (Stage 6, Years/Grades 11-12)
Are you ready to take your analysis to the next level? Join us for a stimulating lesson on the values approach to essay writing. If you are studying advanced English literature, or would just like to go beyond themes in your essays, this...
Wonderscape
Literature Kids: Exploring Figures of Speech
This video is a teacher explaining different figures of speech, including symbolism, allegory, onomatopoeia, paradox, and pun. The teacher provides examples and explanations for each figure of speech and how they are used in literature....
Bridgeman Arts
Animated 19th century thaumatrope with skeleton and jester
Thaumatrope from the 1830s, animated to create an illusion of motion.
Bridgeman Arts
Animated 19th century phenakistoscope with grim reaper dancing
Phenakistoscope c.1833, animated to create an illusion of motion.
Bridgeman Arts
The Garden of Earthly Delights
A detailed view of Hieronymus Bosch's tryptich ""The Garden of Earthly Delights"".
Bridgeman Arts
The art of Tarot Cards
The art of Tarot Cards through representative examples from different epochs.
Bridgeman Arts
Melencolia I - Albrecht Durer
A detailed view of ""Melencolia I"" by German Renaissance master Albrecht Durer.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Courbet, the Artist's Studio
This video spotlights Gustave Courbet's "The Painter's Studio: A Real Allegory Summing Up Seven Years of My Life as an Artist". View the picture and listen as two renowned art professors discuss this historical painting.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Genre Painting
This lesson will analyze some examples of paintings of Dutch interiors.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Parable, Myth, and Allegory: Lesson 3
This lesson discusses parable as a form of instructional religious narrative, and explains how and why parable differs from allegory. It is 3 of 3 in the series titled "Parable, Myth, and Allegory."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Parable, Myth, and Allegory: Lesson 1
This lesson discusses parable as a form of instructional religious narrative, and explains how and why parable differs from allegory. It is 1 of 3 in the series titled "Parable, Myth, and Allegory."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Baroque in the Netherlands and Flanders: Lesson 1
This lesson will provide an introduction to the Baroque in the Netherlands and Flanders. It is 1 of 2 in the series titled "Baroque in the Netherlands and Flanders."