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"...
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,...
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...
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,...
Amor Sciendi
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.
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...
Curated Video
Italy, City of Florence
The clip looks at the beauty, culture and art locations of the city, Florence was a centre of medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of that era. It is considered the birthplace of the Renaissance, and has...
Getty Museum
A Renaissance Cabinet Rediscovered
A cabinet J. Paul Getty acquired in 1971 was for many years believed to be a fake made in the 1800s. Through scientific, visual, and archival analysis, scholars at the Getty proved that the cabinet is an original piece of Renaissance...
Curated Video
Italy, Florence - Basilica di San Lorenzo (Basilica of Saint Lawrence)
San Lorenzo basilica was the parish church of the Medici family. In 1419, Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici offered to finance a new church to replace the 11th-century Romanesque rebuilding. Filippo Brunelleschi, the leading Renaissance...
Curated Video
Italy, Florence, Orsanmichele church
Between 1380 and 1404, it was converted into a church used as the chapel of Florence's powerful craft and trade guilds. On the ground floor of the square building are the 13th-century arches that originally formed the loggia of the grain...
National Geographic
Europe's Largest Gothic Palace Was Once Home to Popes | National Geographic
Located in the sunny south of France, picturesque Avignon was once the seat of power for the Catholic Church. The historic center of Avignon is known for its architectural and cultural significance, both of which largely stem from its...
The Met
#MetKids—Animation Inspired by Jewelry and a Renaissance Portrait
Check out the stop-motion films made by our 7–12-year-old animators at the second annual #MetKids Animation Lab, held June 29–July 2, 2015! Exploring the theme "The Met, Inside Out," kids spent time learning about art in the galleries,...
The Met
Art and Love in Renaissance Italy - Imagery of Love and Marriage on Italian Ceramics - Part 1 of 4
View images from this exhibition: http://www.metmuseum.org/special/art_love/images.asp Presented in conjunction with the exhibition "Art and Love in Renaissance Italy," these lectures explore the various exceptional objects created to...
The Met
Art and Love in Renaissance Italy - Imagery of Love and Marriage on Italian Ceramics - Part 2 of 4
View images from this exhibition: http://www.metmuseum.org/special/art_love/images.asp Presented in conjunction with the exhibition "Art and Love in Renaissance Italy," these lectures explore the various exceptional objects created to...
The Met
Art and Love in Renaissance Italy - Imagery of Love and Marriage on Italian Ceramics - Part 3 of 4
View images from this exhibition: http://www.metmuseum.org/special/art_love/images.asp Presented in conjunction with the exhibition "Art and Love in Renaissance Italy," these lectures explore the various exceptional objects created to...
The Met
Art and Love in Renaissance Italy - Imagery of Love and Marriage on Italian Ceramics - Part 4 of 4
View images from this exhibition: http://www.metmuseum.org/special/art_love/images.asp Presented in conjunction with the exhibition "Art and Love in Renaissance Italy," these lectures explore the various exceptional objects created to...
The Met
Art and Love in Renaissance Italy - Sex in the Eternal City - Part 1 of 6
View images from this exhibition: http://www.metmuseum.org/special/art_love/images.asp Presented in conjunction with the exhibition "Art and Love in Renaissance Italy," these lectures explore the various exceptional objects created to...
The Met
Art and Love in Renaissance Italy - Sex in the Eternal City - Part 2 of 6
View images from this exhibition: http://www.metmuseum.org/special/art_love/images.asp Presented in conjunction with the exhibition "Art and Love in Renaissance Italy," these lectures explore the various exceptional objects created to...
The Met
Art and Love in Renaissance Italy - Sex in the Eternal City - Part 3 of 6
View images from this exhibition: http://www.metmuseum.org/special/art_love/images.asp Presented in conjunction with the exhibition "Art and Love in Renaissance Italy," these lectures explore the various exceptional objects created to...
The Met
Art and Love in Renaissance Italy - Sex in the Eternal City - Part 4 of 6
View images from this exhibition: http://www.metmuseum.org/special/art_love/images.asp Presented in conjunction with the exhibition "Art and Love in Renaissance Italy," these lectures explore the various exceptional objects created to...
The Met
Art and Love in Renaissance Italy - Sex in the Eternal City - Part 6 of 6
View images from this exhibition: http://www.metmuseum.org/special/art_love/images.asp Presented in conjunction with the exhibition "Art and Love in Renaissance Italy," these lectures explore the various exceptional objects created to...
The Met
Art and Love in Renaissance Italy - Sex in the Eternal City - Part 5 of 6
View images from this exhibition: http://www.metmuseum.org/special/art_love/images.asp Presented in conjunction with the exhibition "Art and Love in Renaissance Italy," these lectures explore the various exceptional objects created to...
The Met
Art and Love in Renaissance Italy - Curator's Introduction
View images from this exhibition: http://www.metmuseum.org/special/art_love/images.asp Presented in conjunction with the exhibition "Art and Love in Renaissance Italy," these lectures explore the various exceptional objects created to...