In this video [3:42] Gerard David's, painting The Virgin and Child with Saints and Donor is discussed c. 1510, oil on oak, 105.80 x 144.40 cm (The National Gallery, London). Speakers: Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.

This video discusses Jan Gossaert's, Saint Luke Painting the Madonna, c. 1515-25 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna) Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris & Dr. Steven Zucker. [5:08]

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 Hans Holbein the Younger's, Portrait of Henry VIII, 1540, oil on panel (Palazzo Barberini, Rome). Please note: there have been questions raised as to whether this painting is by Holbein or his workshop, or perhaps a...

This video [2:53] discusses Lucas Cranach the Elder's, Cupid Complaining to Venus, c. 1525, oil on wood, 81.3 x 54.6 cm (The National Gallery, London) Speakers: Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.

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 [3:15] Hans Holbein the Younger's, Christina of Denmark, Duchess of Milan, 1538, oil on oak, 179.1 x 82.6 cm (The National Gallery, London).

Listen to a commentary about a painting in the J. Paul Getty Museum's collection. Part of the Animals in Art tour at the Getty Center.

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.

This video [4:04] discusses Leonardo da Vinci's, The Virgin and Child with St Anne and St John the Baptist (Burlington House Cartoon), 1499-1500, charcoal and chalk on paper, 55.7 x 41.2 inches c. 1499-1500 (National Gallery, London)...

This video [3:16] discusses Hans Holbein the Younger's, The Merchant Georg Gisze, 1532, oil on oak, 97.5 x 86.2 cm (Gemaldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin).

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."

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

This lesson will explore the transition toward a more humanist style in the arts that occurred in fourteenth-century Italian art.

This lesson will introduce the art that influenced the Protestant Reformation in the sixteenth century. It is 2 of 3 in the series titled "The Protestant Reformation."

This double portrait is full of revealing surprises about Holbein's technique, the subject of the painting, the painting's historical context, and the symbolic meaning of the many objects depicted. [15:34]

Video discussing the features of Parmigianino's Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. [2:52]

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...

This video discusses Raphael's, School of Athens, fresco, 1509-1511 (Stanza della Segnatura, Papal Palace, Vatican) Speakers: Dr. Steven Zucker, Dr. Beth Harris. [10:41]

This video [4:20] discusses Verrocchio (with Leonardo), Baptism of Christ, 1470-75 Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker.

This video [8:51] discusses Hieronymus Bosch's, Last Judgment Triptych, 1504-08, Akademie fur bildenden Kunste, Vienna, overall dimensions 163 x 250 cm, central panel 163 x 128 cm, wings 163 x 60 cm. Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr....

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]

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 [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....