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Khan Academy: A Late Victorian: Leighton's an Athlete Wrestling With a Python
This video [5:03] discusses Sir Frederic Leighton's sculpture, An Athlete Wrestling with a Python, 1877, bronze, 1746 x 984 x 1099 mm (Tate Britain, London). Speakers: Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
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Khan Academy: Claus Sluter and Claus De Werve, Mourners, From the Tomb of Philip
This video [3:22] Claus Sluter (with Claus de Werve), Mourners, Tomb of Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, 1410 (Museum of Fine Arts, Dijon) Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris & Dr. Steven Zucker.
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Khan Academy: After the Fall: The Conservation of Tullio Lombardo's "Adam"
This video [7:54] focuses on the conservation of Tullio Lombardo's "Adam" after the fall in 2002. "Adam" was gravely damaged in an accident. Committed to returning it to public view, the Museum undertook a conservation treatment that has...
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Khan Academy: Conserving Tullio Lombardo's "Adam": Time Lapse
In this video [3:04] After extensive research and planning, conservators at The Metropolitan Museum of Art reconstructed Tullio Lombardo's 'Adam,' documenting elements of the process with time-lapse photography.
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Khan Academy: Conserving Tullio Lombardo's 'Adam': Order of Assembly
This 3D animation video [1:13] details the order in which the fragments of Tullio Lombardo's Adam were reassembled.
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Khan Academy: Pose Like a Sculpture
In this video [0:35] head to the galleries with Olena, age 7, and pose like a sculpture by mimicking various sculptures.
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Khan Academy: Figure of a Seated Court Lady
In this video [2:54] Met curator Jason Sun on the pursuit of beauty in Figure of a Seated Court Lady dating from China's Tang dynasty, 8th century. This charming figure brings to life a moment of leisure at the Tang imperial court. The...
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Khan Academy: Statue of Two Men and a Boy That Served as a Domestic Icon
In this video [2:47] Met curator Marsha Hill on reverence in Statue of two men and a boy that served as a domestic icon dating from the Amarna Period of Egypt's New Kingdom, c. 1353-1336 B.C.E. The intriguing group has been variously...
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Khan Academy: Carpeaux, Le Trait D'union
In this video [2:39] Met curator Jim Draper on healing in Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux's Le Trait d'Union, 1872. This is a small clay sculpture of a man, woman, and a child.
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Khan Academy: Figure From a Reliquary Ensemble: Seated Female
In this video [2:58] Met curator Alisa LaGamma on ancestral worship and mortality in Figure from a Reliquary Ensemble: Seated Female by the Fang peoples of Gabon or Equatorial Guinea, 19th-early 20th century. The Fang peoples derive a...
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Khan Academy: Statue of Dionysos Leaning on a Female Figure ("Hope Dionysos")
In this video [2:41] Met curator Carlos A. Picon on oblivion in Statue of Dionysos leaning on a female figure ["Hope Dionysos"), restored by Vincenzo Pacetti, 27 B.C.E.-68 C.E. The head is ancient but from another statue. Restorations by...
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Khan Academy: Head of Tutankhamun From the Amarna Period of Egypt's New Kingdom
In this video [2:44] Met curator Nicholas Reeves on fragmented history in Head of Tutankhamun from the Amarna Period of Egypt's New Kingdom, c. 1336-1327 B.C.E. This head is a fragment from a statue group that represented the god Amun...
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Khan Academy: Alexander Danilovich Menshikov, 18th Century Russian Portrait Bust
In this video [2:43] Met curator Wolfram Koeppe on lasting monuments in Alexander Danilovich Menshikov, an 18th-century Russian portrait bust created by an anonymous artist, c. 1703-4. The pictorial program of this intriguing portrait...
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Khan Academy: Remington, the Old Dragoons of 1850
In this video [2:49] Met curator Thayer Tolles on history and myth in Frederic Remington's The Old Dragoons of 1850, 1905, cast 1907. Remington's ambitious group includes five horses and four riders: two American cavalrymen and two...
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Khan Academy: Tracing the Colors of Ancient Sculpture
In this video [3:07] using ultraviolet and raking light, archaeologist Vinzenz Brinkmann examines sculptures of Athena and Paris from the Temple of Aphasia, in the Glyptothek in Munich revealing evidence of their original color.
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Khan Academy: Casting Bronze: Direct Lost Wax Casting
Adriaen de Vries, a 17th century Dutch sculptor, often used "direct lost-wax casting." Because the wax is "lost," each bronze cast is unique. This video [8:38] explains the process. If the casting fails, the sculptor begins again....
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Khan Academy: Making a Spanish Polychrome Sculpture
In this video [12:03] 17th Century Spanish polychrome sculpture can achieve remarkable realism. Learn about the techniques estofado - painting and incising to portray silk fabrics, and encarnaciones - for the hair and skin. Created by...
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Khan Academy: Adriaen De Vries's Bronze Casting: Direct Lost Wax Method
Using Adriaen de Vries's stunning 17th-century sculpture Juggling Man as an example, this article examines the laborious process of creating a bronze sculpture with the direct lost-wax method. This technique, used since antiquity,...
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Khan Academy: Jim Dine's "Poet Singing (The Flowering Sheets)": A Documentary
In 2008, artist Jim Dine created the first contemporary art project at the Getty Villa. The work presents new sculpture and poetry by Dine inspired by ancient objects in the Museum's collection. [10:18]
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Khan Academy: Statue of an Emperor: A Conservation Partnership
In this video [5:41] watch conservators from the Pergamon Museum in Berlin and the Getty Museum disassemble, clean and reassemble an ancient Roman marble sculpture.
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Khan Academy: Protecting Art in an Earthquake: Seismic Isolator Technology
In this video [2:08] we see what might happen to a fragile work of art during an earthquake? Learn how the Getty Museum's seismic isolator technology protects inherently unstable objects.
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Khan Academy: The Conservation of the 'Apollo Saettante' at the Getty Villa
In this video [4:03] explore the Apollo Saettante, a bronze sculpture buried by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 C.E.
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Khan Academy: Ferocious but Cute Sea Monster
In this video [1:22] Bryn talks about a ferocious but cute sea monster in Soldani Benzi's "Andromeda and the Sea Monster", 1710-16. From a tour at the Getty Center: The Supernatural in Art.
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Khan Academy: Tongue Tied Baby Dragon
In this video [1:47] Michelle and Michael talk about Bernini's "Boy with a Dragon" 1614-20. This is from an imaginative tour at the Getty Center: The Supernatural in Art.