This video [4:51] discussees Claus Sluter's (with Claus de Werve), The Well of Moses, 1395-1405 (calvary finished 1399, prophets 1402-05, painted by Jean Malouel c. 1402), Asnieres stone with gilding and polychromy, slightly less than 7...

In this video [2:28] you will learn how the French artist Marcel Duchamp re-conceived a standard unit of measure, the meter.

In this interview from Francoise Gilot's New York studio, she talks about what her life was like at the centre of French modernism, and how she learned from her peers yet forged her own style even among the superstars of an art movement....

This video spotlights Thomas Couture's "Romans of the Decadence". View the picture and listen as two renowned art professors discuss the painting. [5:45]

This lesson will introduce the Baroque in France, focusing in particular on landscape painting and the artworks by Claude Lorrain and Nicholas Poussin.