Amor Sciendi
The Arnolfini Marriage: Sacred to Secular
You'll see the Arnolfini Marriage in every art history text book. Historians love it because it illustrates a dynamic moment in European history.
The Art Assignment
Better Know the Mona Lisa | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
She's probably the most famous artwork of all time, but what do you know about her? It's time to better know the Mona Lisa.
The Art Assignment
Art That Was Never Finished
Artists have abandoned artworks for many reasons throughout history. Guest host John Green shares some of his favorite unfinished artworks and explains why they resonate with him so deeply. Featuring work by Michelangelo, Leonardo da...
Amor Sciendi
Kehinde Wiley and the Obama Portrait Explained
A history and analysis of Kehinde Wiley's presidential portrait of Barak Obama
The Art Assignment
What Makes a Masterpiece?
What do we mean when we call an artwork a MASTERPIECE? Who decides which art becomes one? And what artists make them?
Amor Sciendi
Andy Warhol and the Mimetic Theory of Art | AmorSciendi
I've been reading a lot of art theory lately and this video is a product of that. I also have been inspired by the long videos of the Art Assignment.
Curated Video
Italy, Venice - San Giorgio Maggiore church
There are more than 250 churches in Venice, both consecrated and desecrated. Obviously, the sacred ones are first of all places of worship, but all together they make up a cultural, artistic and human heritage of inestimable value.
Curated Video
Italy, Venice - Santa Maria Zobenigo church
There are more than 250 churches in Venice, both consecrated and desecrated. Obviously, the sacred ones are first of all places of worship, but all together they make up a cultural, artistic and human heritage of inestimable value.
Amor Sciendi
Elizabeth and the Iconography of Ubiquity
Queen Elizabeth never looks quite real in her portraits... I propose a couple reasons why.
TED Talks
Luke Syson: How I learned to stop worrying and love "useless" art
Luke Syson was a curator of Renaissance art, of transcendent paintings of saints and solemn Italian ladies -- Very Serious Art. And then he changed jobs, and inherited the Met's collection of ceramics -- pretty, frilly, "useless"...
The Met
Silver Caesars: The Vitellius tazza
Watch a video that reveals, through high-resolution photography, the marvelous low-relief images that decorate the Vitellius tazza, a masterpiece of Renaissance goldsmiths’ work. The video is narrated by classicist Mary Beard. Produced...
The Met
Silver Caesars: The Nero tazza
Watch a video that reveals, through high-resolution photography, the marvelous low-relief images that decorate the Nero tazza, a masterpiece of Renaissance goldsmiths’ work. The video is narrated by classicist Mary Beard. Produced in...
Alliterative
The Art of Propaganda: The Endnotes
Some extra information from "Bellini" (https://youtu.be/WVRP2EDTyCM) about Mannerism, art & the Counter-Reformation, and the etymology of Propaganda. Show notes: http://www.alliterative.net/bellini Image Credits:...
ARTiculations
How to Become a Rich & Famous Artist | ARTiculations
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Getty Museum
Almost Invisible: The Cartoon Transfer Process
Infrared cameras now reveal concealed drawings under the surface of many of the Renaissance's most revered paintings. Learn how this radical drawing technique was done. Then visit the J. Paul Getty Museum between June 23, 2015 and...
Curated Video
A Genealogy of Liberty: A Lecture by Quentin Skinner
"What is liberty? This cherished ideal, which lies at the heart of our democracy, has proved very difficult to define. In this provocative lecture, eminent political theorist Quentin Skinner explores some influential meanings of...
Curated Video
The white lie we've been told about Roman statues
The ancient world was actually really colorful. Become a Video Lab member! http://bit.ly/video-lab When you think of the ancient world, you probably picture towering buildings of white marble, adorned with statues also made of white...
National Gallery of Art
Tintoretto: Legends of St. Mark, Scuola Grande di San Marco
This film, made in conjunction with the exhibition Tintoretto: Artist of Renaissance Venice, recounts the history of the relationship between the Venetian fraternal organization Scuola Grande di San Marco and the works of Tintoretto and...
The Met
Michelangelo Symposium Part 10: Everett Fahy
"Young Francesco Granacci" by Everett Fahy, Curator Emeritus, Department of European Paintings, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Join international scholars to explore the pivotal decade of the 1490s in Florence and the formation and...
The British Museum
Living with gods: a secular icon from the Soviet era
Jill Cook decodes this huge, beautiful painting, created in the style of a renaissance icon in the 1980s the USSR. Living with gods: peoples, places and worlds beyond 2 November 2017 – 8 April 2018 To find out more and book tickets,...
Sotheby's
Raphael, Profile Portrait of Valerio Belli
Raphaels’s portrait of friend and fellow artist, the metalist and gem engraver Valerio Belli, highlights the relationship between two great Renaissance masters. Christophe Apostle, Head of Sotheby’s Old Master Paintings New York,...
Free School
Biography of Michelangelo for Kids: Famous Art for Children - FreeSchool
Who was Michelangelo? What did he do? Why is Michelangelo famous? Michelangelo was one of the greatest artists of the Renaissance and his work is well known and loved even today. He made the statue of David, painted the ceiling of the...
Gresham College
The Life and Work of Mervyn Peake - Sebastian Peake
A public lecture on the life and work of Mervyn Peake, by his son. Often described as the ultimate Renaissance Man, Mervyn Peake was just eight when his father, a medical doctor, arranged for a Mandarin expert in calligraphy, to teach...