Invite your learners to consider how the context of an artwork can alter its meaning and interpretation throughout its history by examining the intriguing history behind Michelangelo's statue of David. The video discusses...

Why is Leonardo da Vinci considered the quintessential Renaissance man? This brief, amusing video is a fun way to begin a lesson on the man who embodied the ideals of the Renaissance in so many ways. Since the video moves quickly, ask...

Artists shattered stereotypes during the Harlem Renaissance. Video 41 on the Crash Course Drama and Theater playlist describes art and theater during the time period with a focus on Broadway plays and musicals written by...

How do we come to view objects and artifacts as art? What terms and ideas do we associate with craft instead? The distinction between art and craft may be subtle, but has profound roots in art history and the development of western...

Many have heard of Leonardo da Vinci's unique ability to mirror write; but why did one of the most revered artists of the Renaissance communicate in this way? If you have some extra time at the conclusion of a lesson on da Vinci or, by...

Have you ever noticed that babies in paintings from the Middle Ages look a little...strange? Find out why with an informative and amusing video about the moment artists decided to make babies look cute again.

"Can a museum be a catalyst in a community? Can a museum house artists and allow them to be change agents as communities re-think themselves?" Watch as curator Thelma Golden re-imagines the museum as a think tank and explores the...

Video and article discussing the history and features of Leonardo da Vinci's Virgin of the Rocks. [5:38]

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]

The term Renaissance (re-birth) was coined by scholars and artists of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries to claim that they were heirs of the classical world. This process of rebirth and re-evaluation of the classical inheritance...

Online audio guide that serves as a great resource for providing a better understanding of art history. Listen to an in-depth discussion by two art critics of Raphael's 'School of Athens' which is an example of High Renaissance art. [12:29]

What would it have been like in the late 1500s to go to Rome, the artistic and cultural center of the Western world, with hopes of becoming an artist? In this video [3:20] discover how a series of drawings made around 1595 by Federico...

These stop-motion films made by our 7-12-year-old animators at the second annual #MetKids Animation Lab, explore the theme 'The Met, Inside Out.'

Online audio guide that serves as a great resource for providing better understanding of the High Renaissance period. Listen to an in-depth discussion by two art critics of Michelangelo's 'Last Judgment' which is an example of...

Video and article discussing the history and features of Brunelleschi and Ghiberti's art panels depciting the sacrifice of Isaac. [5:24]

AP European History review video the Northern Renaissance in which Tom Richey compares the Northern Renaissance brand of humanism the with its more secular Italian Renaissance counterpart. [12:11]

This video [4:53] discusses the engaging exhibition featuring more than thirty woodblock prints and engravings by (or after) the German Renaissance master printmaker Albrecht Durer (1471-1528). The artist was an extraordinary innovator...

This is a video [5:40] discussing Fra Andrea Pozzo's, Glorification of Saint Ignatius, ceiling fresco in the nave of Sant'Ignazio, Rome, 1691-94 Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris & Dr. Steven Zucker.

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

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]

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...

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 [9:29] Gossart was among the first northern artists to travel to Rome to make copies after antique sculpture and introduce historical and mythological subjects with erotic nude figures into the mainstream of northern painting....

This lesson will explore the Harlem Renaissance. It is 2 of 3 in the series titled "The Harlem Renaissance." Includes video.