This art history video discussion looks at the reconstruction of the "Ishtar Gate and Processional Way", Babylon, c. 575 B.C.E., glazed mud brick (Pergamon Museum, Berlin).
This essay looks at Italian Futurism. It includes a short video featuring a work by 19th-century scientist and photographer Étienne-Jules Marey, whose chronophotographic (time-based) studies depicted the mechanics of animal and human movement.
This art history video discussion looks at a Byzantine panel with archangel, Ivory leaf from diptych, c. 525-50, 16.8 x 5.6 x 0.35 in. (42.8 x 14.3 x 0.9 cm), probably from Constantinople (modern Istanbul, Turkey), (British Museum, London).
This art history video discussion looks at Jackie Winsor's "#1 Rope", 1976, wood and hemp, 40-1/4 x 40 x 40 inches (SFMOMA, San Francisco).
This art history video discussion looks at a Japanese Negoro ware ewer, Negoro workshop, Muromachi period (1392--1573) to Momoyama period (1573--1615) second half of 16th century, lacquered wood, Wakayama prefecture, Japan (Portland Art Museum).
This art history video dicussion examines Jasper Johns' "Flag", 1954-55, encaustic, oil and collage mounted on plywood, three panels, (MoMA).
This art history video discussion looks at Alexej von Jawlensky's "Young Girl in a Flowered Hat", 1910, oil on cardboard (Albertina, Vienna).
This art history video discussion looks at John Roddam Spencer Stanhope's "Thoughts of the Past" exhibited 1859, oil on canvas (Tate Britain, London).
This art history video discussion examines Joseph Beuys' "Table with Accumulator (Tisch mit Aggregat)", 1958-85, Tate Modern, London.
In this art history video discussion Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker consider Fernand Khnopff's "I Lock the Door Upon Myself," 1891. Neue Pinakothek, Munich.
They disucss the Symbolist painters and a poem by Christina Rosetti.
This art history video discussion examines Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's "Street", Dresden, oil on canvas, 1908 (MoMA).
This art history video discussion looks at Paul Klee's "Twittering Machine (Die Zwitscher-Maschine)", 1922, watercolor, ink, and gouache on paper (MoMA).
This art history video discussion examines Gustav Klimt's "Death and Life", 1910, reworked 1915, oil on canvas, 178 x 198 cm (Leopold Museum, Vienna).
This art history video discussion examines Fitz Henry Lane's "Owl's Head", Penobscot Bay, Maine, 1862, oil on canvas, (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).
This art history video discussion looks at the "Last Judgment Tympanum", Central Portal on West facade of the Cathedral of St. Lazare, Autun, c. 1130-46.
This art history video discussion looks at Laszlo Moholy-Nagy's "Composition A.XX", 1924, oil on canvas, 135.5 x 115cm (Musee national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris).
This art history video discussion examines Sir Frederic Leighton's "An Athlete Wrestling with a Python", 1877, bronze, 1746 x 984 x 1099 mm (Tate Britain, London).
This art history video discussion examines Leonardo da Vinci's "Adoration of the Magi", 1481, oil on panel (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence).
In this video and accompanying essay, Dr. David Drogin discusses Leonardo da Vinci and his Letter to the Duke of Milan.
This art history video discussion examines Leonardo da Vinci's, Last Supper, oil, tempera, fresco, 1495-98 (Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan).