Khan Academy: Art History: Polykleitos, Doryphoros

Video discussing a Roman copy of a Greek sculpture of a youth, c. AD 69-96. The original statue, Diadoumenos, by Polykleitos, c. 430 BC, was melted down for its bronze. Includes links to additional information and images. [9:03]

College-level analysis, in vodcast format, of Edouard Manet's Olympia, one of the first modernist works to break from classical tradition in representing nudes. A perceptive vehicle for understanding the significance of nudes across...

A video [5:08] from the Utah System of Higher Education (with special thanks to Dr. Nancy Ross). Drawing and disscussion of Medieval And Byzantine Art history by Ydraw.

This video [10:41] discusses Ara Pacis Augustae (Altar of Augustan Peace), 13-9 B.C.E.Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris & Dr. Steven ZuckerOn Smarthistory: http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/ara-pacis.htmlOn Khan Academy:

A video about Robert Colescott's Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder, 1979 in the Portland Art Museum. The video is narrated by Khan Academy's Dr. Beth Harris and Steven Zucker. [4:38]

This video [5:25] discusses Claude Monet's, Gare St. Lazare, 1877 (Musee d'Orsay) For more art history videos visit www.smarthistory.org

Listen in as art historians review and discuss one of Picasso's early Cubist paintings. Learn about different approaches that art historians take in attempting to understand Picasso's process, composition, and choice of materials. An...

Video on the thirteenth-century sculptors Nicola and Giovanni Pisano, with biographical and historical information. [13:19]

This video discusses a Mihrab (prayer niche), 1354--55 (A.H. 755), just after the Ilkhanid period, Isfahan, Iran, polychrome glazed tiles, 135-1/ 16 x 113-11/16 inches / 343.1 x 288.7 cm (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York). [5:40]

This video [6:39] discusses the Reception Room (Qa'a), Ottoman period, 1119 a.h. / 1707 a.d., Damascus, Syria, poplar, gesso relief with gold and tin leaf, glazes and paint; cypress, poplar, walnut, black mulberry, mother-of-pearl,...