TED Talks
Luke Syson: How I learned to stop worrying and love "useless" art
Luke Syson was a curator of Renaissance art, of transcendent paintings of saints and solemn Italian ladies -- Very Serious Art. And then he changed jobs, and inherited the Met's collection of ceramics -- pretty, frilly, "useless"...
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PUSHKIN MUSEUM 100 YEAR'S OLD
Moscow's Pushkin State Museum of Fine Art is marking its hundreth anniversary. It houses world renowned art and artefacts from antiquity to the modern day. Jacques-Louis David's painting - the Portrait of Alphonse Leroy shows his subject...
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Louvre opens sister museum in former mining town
AP Television Lens - 3 December, 2012 1. Wide exterior of Louvre Lens museum entrance with worker cleaning ahead of official opening 2. Wide exterior of Louvre Lens museum entrance 3. Wide of exterior of museum with flower rings on the...
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Rubens' Baroque art celebrated in Antwerp
LEADIN A new festival in Belgium is paying homage to the Baroque style of master painter Peter Paul Rubens. In the 1600s Rubens' bold and dramatic approach to art burst into life across hundreds of canvasses. STORYLINE An oversize...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Why is the Mona Lisa so famous? | Noah Charney
More than 500 years after its creation, Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" is arguably the world's most famous painting. Many scholars consider it an outstanding work of Renaissance art— but history is full of great paintings. So, how did...
The March of Time
1940: VATICAN CITY MUSEUMS (Musei Vaticani): VS The Simonetti Staircase. People walking into Loggia di Raffaello (Raphael Sanzio). People standing before 'The Transfiguration' painting. Italian High Renaissance, art, artist, architect, priceless
MOT 1940: VATICAN CITY MUSEUMS (Musei Vaticani): VS The Simonetti Staircase. People walking into Loggia di Raffaello (Raphael Sanzio). People standing before 'The Transfiguration' painting. Italian High Renaissance, art, artist,...
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Moscow gallery unveils first Russian exhibit devoted to Raphael
RUSSIA ARTSOURCE: AP HORIZONS, LIFESTYLE, HEALTH AND TECHNOLOGY RESTRICTIONS: HORIZONS CLIENTS AND AP LIFESTYLE, HEALTH AND TECHNOLOGY CLIENTS ONLYLENGTH: 4:06SHOTLIST:AP TelevisionMoscow, Russia - 12 September 20161. Various of...
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Moscow gallery unveils first Russian exhibit devoted to Raphael
RUSSIA ARTSOURCE: AP HORIZONS, LIFESTYLE, HEALTH AND TECHNOLOGY RESTRICTIONS: HORIZONS CLIENTS AND AP LIFESTYLE, HEALTH AND TECHNOLOGY CLIENTS ONLYLENGTH: 4:06SHOTLIST:AP TelevisionMoscow, Russia - 12 September 20161. Various of...
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Preview of Sotheby's Asian Art sale
14 March 2008 1. Wide exterior of Sotheby's 2. Wide pan of auction preview 3. Wide of Cai Guo-Qiang's "Escalator: Explosion Project for Centre Pompidou (two panels)," 1957, estimated to fetch 500-700 thousand US dollars 4. Close of Cai...
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Vibrant Taiwan art scene hosts exhibition
TAIWAN ART SOURCE: AP TELEVISIONRESTRICTIONS: HORIZONS CLIENTS AND AP LIFESTYLE, HEALTH AND TECHNOLOGY CLIENTS ONLYLENGTH: 3:25 SHOTLIST:AP TelevisionTaipei - May 8, 20151. Visitors looking at artworks of Denis Mikhaylov in the series...
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The art of violin making has a renaissance in Italy
FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: 4038134LEAD IN: The art of violin making is not only still very much alive in Italy - it is growing ever more popular among young people. The starting price for a hand crafted violin is 5000 euros with...
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Louvre asks public to fund prayer book's return to France
LOUVRE ASKS PUBLIC TO FUND PRAYER BOOK'S RETURN TO FRANCE The Louvre museum in Paris is calling on the public to help bring back one of the French Renaissance's greatest decorative works of art. The Book of Hours prayer book - a...
ARTiculations
Are Art and Science Mutually Exclusive? | ARTiculations
Are art and science opposing forces? Or do they actually work best together? Are artists and scientists polar opposites like society would like you to believe? Or are they actually very similar types of people? I would like to argue the...
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Restored Renaissance painting to be unveiled after 50 years
LEAD IN:A Renaissance painting that was badly damaged in a 1966 flood in Florence is about to be unveiled to the public after years of painstaking restoration.Giorgio Vasari painted "The Last Supper" in the 16th century, but it suffered...
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Cynthia Erivo, Amanda Seyfried, David Foster, Katharine McPhee, Katherine Langford, Doutzen Kroes and Bella Hadid arrive at Met Gala
SHOTLIST: RESTRICTIONS: AP CLIENTS ONLY ASSOCIATED PRESS New York, 7 May 2018 1. British actress and singer Cynthia Erivo poses for photographers 2. Various of Amanda Seyfried posing in a Renaissance-style yellow Prada gown 3. Various of...
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Alice Cooper, Roger Daltrey, Donovan, Peter Gabriel talk about being featured in an art piece for Teenage Cancer Trust
ALICE COOPER, ROGER DALTREY, DONOVAN, PETER GABRIEL TALK ABOUT BEING FEATURED IN AN ART PIECE FOR TEENAGE CANCER TRUST Alistair Morrison has spent the last two years capturing 75 of the most recognizable faces in rock'n'roll. The...
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Egyptian artist Basim Magdy wins German art prize
LEAD INBasim Magdy, an Egyptian visual artist, has won the annual "Artist of the Year" award by Deutsche Bank.Magdy's work deal with memories, politics and visions of the future.An exhibition celebrating his award has opened in the...
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Thousands of pieces of art need restoring after floods forty years ago
1. Wide shot Florence skyline 2. Long shot bridges on river Arno 3. Wide shot tourists walking ) 4. Wide shot of 'Ponte Vecchio', (Old Bridge) on river Arno AP TELEVISION FILE - November 1966 (black and white file with narrated voice...
Amor Sciendi
Art and Faith | AmorSciendi Theory of Knowledge
This is another video with themes from my Theory of Knowledge class, and another video where I draw heavily from my experience studying and teaching Renaissance/Reformation history. I'm keeping the long format video/essay style for now,...
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Andy Warhol and the Mimetic Theory of Art | AmorSciendi
I've been reading a lot of art theory lately and this video is a product of that. I also have been inspired by the long videos of the Art Assignment.
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Dries Van Noten unveils Fall/Winter menswear collection in Paris
It was in a round underground cavern beneath the Grand Palais museum amongst heavy stone pillars and overhead pipes that Dries Van Noten showed his fall/winter menswear collection Thursday evening. To the a cappella sounds of the Rolling...
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Rome exhibit dispels myth about Borgia pope's lover
LEADINAn exhibition featuring Renaissance artist Pintoricchio is aiming to dispel a long standing myth about Pope Alexander VI's young lover. Pintoricchio was practically accused of blasphemy by those who contended he used Giulia Farnese...
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Rome exhibit dispels myth about Borgia pope's lover
LEADINAn exhibition featuring Renaissance artist Pintoricchio is aiming to dispel a long standing myth about Pope Alexander VI's young lover. Pintoricchio was practically accused of blasphemy by those who contended he used Giulia Farnese...
National Gallery of Art
Alonso Berruguete: First Sculptor of Renaissance Spain
This 10-minute film explores the life and art of Alonso Berruguete, the revolutionary sculptor and painter of Renaissance Spain. Around 1506, when still a teenager, Berruguete traveled from his small town in Castile to Italy, where he...