Khan Academy: Understanding the Wet Collodion Process

Test your knowledge of the wet collodion process.

The study resource from Khan Academy provides an overview of Period 6: 1865-1898 in American History. Reform in the Gilded Age is discussed in this lesson. This resource is designed as a review for the AP US History Test.

Wifredo Lam remains the most renowned painter from Cuba and "The Jungle" remains his best known work and an important painting in the history of Latin American art and the history of twentieth-century modernism more broadly. View...

Jacques-Louis David's portrait of Napoleon in his study, constitutes one of the last formal portraits of the great French ruler. Read the background of this painting and view pictures on this site.

This video spotlights Jacques-Louis David's "The Lictors Returning to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons". View the picture and listen as two renowned art professors discuss the painting.

How much do you know about the painting The Jungle by Wifredo Lam? Find out by answering this five-question multiple-choice and true/false quiz. Check each answer before moving to the next question. Hints are available for each question.

In this video [3:24] Mark Fenn, Associate Head of Conservation at the Asian Art Museum, gives a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the reconsecration (reclaiming the sacred space) of a stupa, a dome-shaped structure erected as a Buddhist...

This video discusses Jacques-Louis David's, The Lictors Returning to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons, 1789, oil on canvas, 10' 7-1/8" x 13' 10-1/8" or 3.23 x 4.22m (Musee du Louvre, Paris). Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker....

This video discusses Jacques-Louis David's, Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries, 1812, oil on canvas 80-1/4 x 49-1/4 inches (National Gallery of Art). [2:39]

In "The Gare Saint-Lazare, the Auteuil Line" Monet shows his keen interest in light, color, and paint handling. This painting has been singled out as among the most impressive paintings of Impressionism. View this picture and read about...