Video discussing the history and features of Andrea Mantegna's painting Saint Sebastian. [3:05]

Video discussing the history and features of Andrea Mantegna's painting Dead Christ. [3:55]

Video discussing the history and features of the Donatello's sculpture of David. Includes the transcript of a conversation about the sculpture between the two speakers in the video. [7:24]

Video discussing the features of Fra Filippo Lippi's painting Man and woman at a Casement. [5:58]

Video and article discussing the history, creation, and features of Fra Filippo Lippi's painting Madonna and Child with Angels. [3:57]

Video and article discussing the history and features of the Duccio's Maesta. [6:24]

Video discussing the history, creation, and features of Giovanni Bellini's Saint Francis in the Desert. [8:23]

This video describes the process of creating an illuminated manuscript produced in the Renaissance and Middle Ages. Segment topics cover preparing a parchment paper, writing, illuminating, and binding.

Video and article discussing the features of Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper. [12:33]

Video discussing the history and features of Rogier van der Weyden's painting Deposition. [7:09]

Video and article discussing the history and features of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa. [8:39]

Video and article discussing the history and features of Robert Campin's Merode Altarpiece. [5:46]

Video discussing the history, creation, and features of Michelangelo's Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. [22:03]

This video spotlights Lucus Cranach the Elder's "Adam and Eve". View the picture and listen as two renowned art professors discuss the painting. [5:02]

This video spotlights Gerard David's "The Virgin and Child with Saints and Donor". View the picture and listen as two renowned art professors discuss the painting and its religious symbolism. [3:42]

This video [3:47] discusses Andrea Pozzo's, Saint Ignatius Chapel in the left transept of the church, Il Gesu, Rome (commissioned in 1695). Many artists contributed including Alessandro Algardi, Pierre Legros, Bernardino Ludovisi, Il...

This video discusses Guercino, St. Luke Displaying a Painting of the Virgin, oil on canvas, 1652-53 (Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City) Speakers: Beth Harris and Steven Zucker. [8:27]

This video [4:32] Pierre Le Gros the Younger's, Stanislas Kostka on His Deathbed, 1703, upstairs at Bernini's Sant'Andrea al Quirinale Speakers: Frank Dabbell, Beth Harris and Steven Zucker. A Smarthistory.org video.

Video examining two portraits by Agnolo Bronzino, a Mannerist artist. [10:30]

This lesson will introduce High Renaissance art and architecture and consider several examples of the work of Leonardo da Vinci. It is 1 of 3 in the series titled "The High Renaissance: Leonardo da Vinci."

An illuminated manuscript is a book written and decorated completely by hand. Such manuscripts were among the most precious objects in medieval and early Renaissance monasteries and courts. In this video [6:19] discover how skilled...

Wood panel was the support most often used for painting before canvas replaced it at the end of the 1500s. Artists applied gold ground and expensive pigments to the most splendid panel paintings. It demonstrates how a wood panel was...

In this video [2:43] Met curator Stuart Pyhrr on virtuoso craftsmanship in Filippo Negroli's Burgonet, 1543. This masterpiece of Renaissance metalwork is signed on the browplate by Filippo Negroli, whose embossed armor was praised by...

Michelangelo's David stands nearly 17 feet tall. The biblical figure of David was special to the citizens of Florence--he symbolized the liberty and freedom of their republican ideals, which were threatened at various points in the...