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14:16Michelangelo's David: Great Art Explained
4.9M viewsThe story of Michelangelo's David: the marble, the commission, the technique and its meaning in Florence.
51:11Dark Goya (Full length): The later Works
1M viewsGoya's late works, including the Black Paintings, in a feature-length study.
15:01Frida Kahlo's 'The Two Fridas’: Great Art Explained
1.85M viewsFrida Kahlo's The Two Fridas and how it reflects her divorce and dual identity.
50:52Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights (Full Length): Great Art Explained
3.86M viewsA 50-minute full-length study of Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights, panel by panel.
32:32John Singer Sargent (Full Length): Madame X and Dr. Pozzi
1.07M viewsSargent's Madame X and Dr Pozzi: the portraits, the scandal and the sitters.
15:11Mark Rothko's Seagram Murals: Great Art Explained
1.62M viewsThe story of Rothko's Seagram murals and his ideas about colour and the viewer.
15:38Monet's Water Lilies: Great Art Explained
2.02M viewsHow Monet's late Water Lilies series was made and why it anticipates abstraction.
18:32The Birth of Venus by Botticelli: Great Art Explained:
1.24M viewsBotticelli's Birth of Venus: its Neoplatonic meaning, patrons and technique.
17:00The Great Wave by Hokusai: Great Art Explained
4.51M viewsHokusai's The Great Wave: woodblock printing, Prussian blue, composition and its global influence.
15:11The Kiss by Gustav Klimt: Great Art Explained
1.86M viewsKlimt's The Kiss: its gold technique, Byzantine influences and Vienna Secession context.
16:24The Scream: Great Art Explained
1.02M viewsMunch's The Scream: its versions, inspiration and place in Expressionism.
36:12Great Art Explained: The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci
1.07M viewsA 36-minute study of Leonardo's Last Supper: experimental technique, deterioration, restoration and composition.
32:54Mona Lisa (Full Length): Great Art Explained
2.43M viewsThe full-length story of the Mona Lisa: technique (sfumato), sitter, theft and fame.
13:41Picasso’s Guernica: Great Art Explained
1.51M viewsPicasso's Guernica: the bombing it depicts, its iconography and its political life as an image.
30:05Great Art Explained: Bernini's Apollo and Daphne
599K viewsBernini's Apollo and Daphne: how marble was carved to look like flesh, leaves and motion.
15:32Nighthawks by Edward Hopper: Great Art Explained
3.67M viewsEdward Hopper's Nighthawks: composition, light, urban loneliness and the painting's history.
15:40The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan Van Eyck: Great Art Explained
779K viewsJan van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait: oil technique, symbolism debates and the mirror.
18:29The Milkmaid by Johannes Vermeer: Great Art Explained
1.41M viewsVermeer's The Milkmaid: light, pigment, technique and Dutch Golden Age domestic painting.
15:01The Raft of the Medusa by Théodore Géricault: Great Art Explained
556K viewsGéricault's Raft of the Medusa: the real shipwreck, the painter's research and Romanticism.
23:58The School of Athens by Raphael: Great Art Explained
647K viewsRaphael's School of Athens: the philosophers depicted, perspective and High Renaissance ideals.
15:08Andy Warhol's Marilyn: Great Art Explained
710K viewsA 15-minute video from Great Art Explained's catalogue; the title names its topic.
23:25Art as Propaganda: Great Art Explained: Napoleon Crossing the Alps by Jacques-Louis David
164K viewsA 23-minute video from Great Art Explained's catalogue; the title names its topic.
15:09Artemisia Gentileschi: Great Art Explained
350K viewsA 15-minute video from Great Art Explained's catalogue; the title names its topic.
14:13Caravaggio's Taking of Christ: Great Art Explained
824K viewsA 14-minute video from Great Art Explained's catalogue; the title names its topic.
21:39Caravaggio, Bernini and Pozzo: Great Art Cities: Rome
182K viewsA 22-minute video from Great Art Explained's catalogue; the title names its topic.
12:14Edward Hopper and Cinema: A Great Art Explained Extra
259K viewsA 12-minute video from Great Art Explained's catalogue; the title names its topic.
24:44Egon Schiele: Great Art Explained
344K viewsA 25-minute video from Great Art Explained's catalogue; the title names its topic.
28:04Francis Bacon: Great Art Explained: Study after Velázquez
153K viewsA 28-minute video from Great Art Explained's catalogue; the title names its topic.
15:25Georges Seurat: Great Art Explained
526K viewsA 15-minute video from Great Art Explained's catalogue; the title names its topic.
16:05Georgia O'Keeffe: Great Art Explained
390K viewsA 16-minute video from Great Art Explained's catalogue; the title names its topic.
18:41Great Art Cities Explained: London
300K viewsA 19-minute video from Great Art Explained's catalogue; the title names its topic.
18:44Great Art Cities Explained: Paris
350K viewsA 19-minute video from Great Art Explained's catalogue; the title names its topic.
15:10Great Art Cities: Istanbul
188K viewsA 15-minute video from Great Art Explained's catalogue; the title names its topic.
15:08Great Art Explained: Dorothea Tanning
225K viewsA 15-minute video from Great Art Explained's catalogue; the title names its topic.
31:02Great Art Explained: Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez
518K viewsA 31-minute video from Great Art Explained's catalogue; the title names its topic.
17:35Great Art Explained: Man Ray
148K viewsA 18-minute video from Great Art Explained's catalogue; the title names its topic.
Books that go with these videos
- The Story of Art, E.H. GombrichThe classic introduction
- Ways of Seeing, John BergerA short, influential essay on how we look at art
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