This art history video discussion examines Francois Boucher's "Madame de Pompadour", oil on canvas, 1750 (extention of canvas and additional painting likely added by Boucher later, Fogg Museum.
This art history video discussion examines John Singleton Copley's "A Boy with a Flying Squirrel" (Henry Pelham), 1765, 77.15 x 63.82 cm / 30-3/8 x 25-1/8 inches (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).
This art history video discussion examines Donato Bramante's "Tempietto", c. 1502, San Pietro in Montorio, Rome.
This art history video discussion looks at Constantin Brancusi's "Bird in Space", bronze, limestone, wood, 1928 (MoMA).
This art history video discussion examines Georges Braque's "Le Viaduc a L'Estaque", (The Viaduct at L'Estaque), 1908, oil on canvas (Musee national d'art moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris).
This learning video is designed to develop critical thinking in students by encouraging them to work from basic principles to solve a puzzling mathematics problem that contains uncertainty. Materials for in-class activities include: a yard stick, a meter stick or a straight branch of a tree; a saw or equivalent to cut the stick; and a blackboard or equivalent. In this video lesson, during in-class sessions between video segments, students will learn among other things: 1) how to generate random numbers; 2) how to deal with probability; and 3) how to construct and draw portions of the X-Y plane that satisfy linear inequalities.
This art history video discussion examines Bronzino's "Portrait of a Young Man," oil on panel, 1530s (Metropolitan Museum of Art) Bronzino, Lodovico Capponi, Oil on panel, 1550-55 (Frick Collection).
This art history video discussion examines Bronzino's "Portrait of Eleonora di Toledo with her son Giovanni," 1544-1545, oil on panel, 115.00 x 96.00 cm (Galleria degli Uffizi).
This art history video discussion examines Pieter Bruegel the Elder's "The Dutch Proverbs," 1559, oil on oak, 117 x 163 cm (Gemaldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin).
This art history video discussion examines Pieter Bruegel the Elder's "The Tower of Babel," 1563, oil on panel, 114 x 155 cm (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).
This art history video discussion examines Brunelleschi & Ghiberti's "Sacrifice of Isaac," competition panels for the second set of bronze doors for the Florence Baptistery, 1401-2.
This art history video discussion examines Brunelleschi's "Dome of the Cathedral of Florence," 1420-36.
This art history video discussion examines Brunelleschi's "Old Sacristy", San Lorenzo, Florence, begun c. 1421.
This art history video discussion examines Filippo Brunelleschi's Pazzi Chapel, Santa Croce, Florence, begun 1420s, completed 1460s.
This art history video discussion examines Filippo Brunelleschi's "Santo Spirito," Florence, 1428-81.
This art history video discussion examines the Buddha of Medicine Bhaishajyaguru (Yaoshi fo), c. 1319, Yuan dynasty, water-based pigments on clay mixed with straw, 24 feet, 8 inches x 49 feet 7 inches / 751.8 cm x 1511.3 cm (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
This video module presents an introduction to cryptography - the method of sending messages in such a way that only the intended recipients can understand them. In this very interactive lesson, students will build three different devices for cryptography and will learn how to encrypt and decrypt messages. There are no prerequisites for this lesson, and it has intentionally been designed in a way that can be adapted to many audiences. It is fully appropriate in a high school level math or computer science class where the teacher can use it to motivate probability/statistics or programming exercises. nteractive lesson, students will learn to build the cryptography devices and will learn how to send and ''crack'' secret messages.
This art history video discussion examines Edward Burne-Jones' "King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid", oil on canvas, 1884 (Tate Britain, London).
Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Hope, 1896, 179 x 63.5 cm, oil on canvas (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
This art history video discussion examines Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones' "The Golden Stairs," 1880, oil on canvas 2692 x 1168 mm (Tate Britain, London).