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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...
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Verrocchio: Sculptor and Painter of Renaissance Florence
Made in conjunction with the exhibition Verrocchio: Sculptor and Painter of Renaissance Florence, this 17-minute documentary explores the career of an exceptionally versatile artist. Andrea del Verrocchio (c. 1435–1488) gained fame as a...
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By the Light of the Silvery Moon: A Century of Lunar Photographs
The Apollo 11 mission captivated audiences across the globe. Blastoff was a major televised event, and live broadcast of the arrival four days later, on July 20, 1969, was viewed by more than 500 million people. The source of some of the...
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Tintoretto: Legends of St. Mark, Scuola Grande di San Marco
This film, made in conjunction with the exhibition Tintoretto: Artist of Renaissance Venice, recounts the history of the relationship between the Venetian fraternal organization Scuola Grande di San Marco and the works of Tintoretto and...
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Drawing in Silver and Gold: Leonardo to Jasper Johns
This film was produced in conjunction with the exhibition Drawing in Silver and Gold: Leonardo to Jasper Johns. Used by artists since the Middle Ages, metalpoint in its simplest form involves inserting gold or silver wire into a stylus...
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George Bellows, Part 2
Narrated by Ethan Hawke, this film was made in conjunction with the exhibition George Bellows. Bellows arrived in New York City in 1904 and depicted an America on the move.
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George Bellows, Part 1
Narrated by Ethan Hawke, this film was made in conjunction with the exhibition George Bellows. Bellows arrived in New York City in 1904 and depicted an America on the move.
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Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escape
This documentary, narrated by Ed Harris, was produced by the National Gallery of Art in conjunction with the exhibition Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escape. Joan Miró was passionately committed to his native Catalonia and its struggle for...
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Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes
Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes, narrated by Tilda Swinton (2013, 60 min.) Narrated by Tilda Swinton, this film was made in conjunction with the exhibition Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes, 1909–1929: When Art Danced with Music. The...
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J.M.W. Turner Film
This excerpt is from a new documentary chronicling the rise of one of the greatest landscape painters of all time, Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851), who rendered the subtle effects of light and atmosphere in revolutionary ways....
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Pompeii and the Roman Villa: Art and Culture around the Bay of Naples
Narrated by Sir Derek Jacobi and produced by the National Gallery, this excerpt is from a new documentary film that examines the explosion of artistic activity around the Bay of Naples beginning in the first century BC.
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Gauguin: Maker of Myth: Part 4
Narrated by Willem Dafoe and with Alfred Molina as the voice of Paul Gauguin, this film was made in conjunction with the exhibition Gauguin: Maker of Myth. Gauguin (1848–1903) abandoned impressionism to create an art driven less by...
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Gauguin: Maker of Myth: Part 3
Narrated by Willem Dafoe and with Alfred Molina as the voice of Paul Gauguin, this film was made in conjunction with the exhibition Gauguin: Maker of Myth. Gauguin (1848–1903) abandoned impressionism to create an art driven less by...
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Gauguin: Maker of Myth: Part 2
Narrated by Willem Dafoe and with Alfred Molina as the voice of Paul Gauguin, this film was made in conjunction with the exhibition Gauguin: Maker of Myth. Gauguin (1848–1903) abandoned impressionism to create an art driven less by...
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Gauguin: Maker of Myth: Part 1
Narrated by Willem Dafoe and with Alfred Molina as the voice of Paul Gauguin, this film was made in conjunction with the exhibition Gauguin: Maker of Myth. Gauguin (1848–1903) abandoned impressionism to create an art driven less by...
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Arcimboldo: Nature and Fantasy
Narrated by Isabella Rossellini and produced by the National Gallery of Art, this film traces the career of Giuseppe Arcimboldo, an artist whose work thrilled and delighted the Habsburg courts of the later 16th century. Arcimboldo was...
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Teaching Critical Thinking through Art, 4.5: Focal Point: How do art teachers use Artful Thinking?
Three DC-area visual art teachers—Lauren Bomba, Terry Thomas and Annette Zamula—talk about how using Artful Thinking in their art classrooms develops students’ looking, reasoning, curiosity, and creativity, and enriches student art...
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Teaching Critical Thinking through Art, 2.4: Looking for Details with the Elaboration Game
In this lesson demonstration video at the National Gallery of Art, Grace Bogosian, a second-grade teacher at Sacred Heart School in Washington, DC, uses the Looking: 5 x 2 routine with her students to build an inventory of their...
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Teaching Critical Thinking through Art 1.5: Focal Point: How does See/Think/Wonder support literacy?
Former classroom teacher and current gallery teacher Tondra Odom shares how, after using Artful Artful Thinking routines with artworks, she used the routines to differentiate reading instruction for her fifth grade students reading both...
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Teaching Critical Thinking through Art, 4.3: Investigating with the Creative Questions Game
In this lesson demonstration video filmed at the National Gallery of Art, museum educator Meghan Lally Keaton turns Creative Questions into a game using Sam Gilliam's Relative with a fifth grade class from Beers Elementary School,...
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Teaching Critical Thinking through Art, 0.1: Welcome to the Course
In this welcome video, lead course instructor Julie Carmean introduces the National Gallery of Art’s first online Course: Teaching Critical Thinking through Art. This one-of-a-kind course uses the Gallery’s deep experience with Artful...