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- 1500-1600: End of the Renaissance & the Reformation ` · 77 videos
- Smarthistory and Art Bridges · 54 videos
- Indigenous Americas · 53 videos
- Oppression and resistance, the long history of African American struggle seen through art and artifacts · 48 videos
- Native American · 45 videos
- Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art · 43 videos
- Rome · 43 videos
- Louvre · 40 videos
- Paris · 39 videos
- ARCHES (At Risk Cultural Heritage Education Series) · 39 videos
- 1800-1848 in Europe and the the Americas · 36 videos
- 1700-1800: Age of Enlightenment · 35 videos
- The National Gallery, London · 35 videos
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston · 31 videos
- Florence, Italy · 30 videos
- Virginia Museum of Fine Arts · 27 videos
- Smarthistory webinar · 26 videos
- Tate, London · 26 videos
- Uffizi, Florence · 26 videos
- Tools for understanding art · 26 videos
- African Art · 24 videos
- Getty Conversations · 24 videos
- China · 24 videos
- Expanded Renaissance Initiative · 24 videos
- Musée d'Orsay, Paris · 24 videos
- Rubin Museum of Art · 24 videos
- British Museum, London · 24 videos
- Mexico City · 23 videos
- Buddhist Art · 22 videos
- Philadelphia Museum of Art · 20 videos
- Mesoamerica · 20 videos
- National Gallery of Art, Washington DC · 19 videos
- Pre-Raphaelite Art · 19 videos
- Art of the Islamic world · 18 videos
- National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution · 18 videos
- Center for Netherlandish Art · 17 videos
- Latinx · 17 videos
- Art Institute of Chicago · 17 videos
- New to our channel? Start here... · 17 videos
- Japan · 17 videos
- The Museum of Modern Art · 17 videos
- Smarthistory Commons · 15 videos
- Flanders · 16 videos
- Vatican & Vatican Museums · 14 videos
- Art from Spain · 14 videos
- Spanish Colonial Art · 13 videos
- Getty Museum · 13 videos
- Terra Foundation for American Art · 13 videos
4:37"Plaque of the Ergastines" fragment from the frieze on the east side of the Parthenon
62.1K viewsA 5-minute video from Smarthistory's catalogue; the title names its topic.
5:20"We have met the enemy and they are ours."
7.7K viewsA 5-minute video from Smarthistory's catalogue; the title names its topic.
4:29"full of beauty and without subject," Sir John Everett Millais, Spring (Apple Blossoms)
10.7K viewsA 4-minute video from Smarthistory's catalogue; the title names its topic.
5:16A Buddhist Monk’s Dream Diary
3.21K viewsA 5-minute video from Smarthistory's catalogue; the title names its topic.
4:07A Byzantine vision of Paradise — The Harbaville Triptych
15.3K viewsA 4-minute video from Smarthistory's catalogue; the title names its topic.
4:33A Jewish family in early New York
12.5K viewsA 5-minute video from Smarthistory's catalogue; the title names its topic.
7:22A Jewish house in Damascus, Bayt Farhi
72.6K viewsA 7-minute video from Smarthistory's catalogue; the title names its topic.
4:22A Madonna in a field of Gold: Cimabue's Santa Trinita Madonna
28.4K viewsA 4-minute video from Smarthistory's catalogue; the title names its topic.
6:45A Medieval textbook
45K viewsA 7-minute video from Smarthistory's catalogue; the title names its topic.
5:14A Memphis juke joint
6.87K viewsA 5-minute video from Smarthistory's catalogue; the title names its topic.
12:32A One-of-a-Kind Canteen
4.46K viewsA 13-minute video from Smarthistory's catalogue; the title names its topic.
5:53A Pink Qur'an for a king
10.7K viewsA 6-minute video from Smarthistory's catalogue; the title names its topic.
6:08A Renaissance St. James as pilgrim
7.55K viewsA 6-minute video from Smarthistory's catalogue; the title names its topic.
7:47A Renaissance dinner service for a duchess
9.19K viewsA 8-minute video from Smarthistory's catalogue; the title names its topic.
8:17A Renaissance masterpiece nearly lost in war: Piero della Francesca, The Resurrection
32.5K viewsA 8-minute video from Smarthistory's catalogue; the title names its topic.
5:27A Renaissance miniature in wood and feathers
6.99K viewsA 5-minute video from Smarthistory's catalogue; the title names its topic.
7:05A Romanesque gem in Ireland, Cormac's Chapel
19.2K viewsA 7-minute video from Smarthistory's catalogue; the title names its topic.
6:03A Royal Hunt in Silver and Gold
3.12K viewsA 6-minute video from Smarthistory's catalogue; the title names its topic.
4:54A Tea Caddy Unwrapped
2.94K viewsA 5-minute video from Smarthistory's catalogue; the title names its topic.
6:14A Unicorn in Canada? Looking critically at the Codex Canadensis
7.07K viewsA 6-minute video from Smarthistory's catalogue; the title names its topic.
6:15A Young Country, an Ancient Manuscript
4.3K viewsA 6-minute video from Smarthistory's catalogue; the title names its topic.
7:41A beacon of hope, Aaron Douglas's Aspiration
63.1K viewsA 8-minute video from Smarthistory's catalogue; the title names its topic.
4:14A body in clay, a work by Magdalene Anyango N. Odundo
7.07K viewsA 4-minute video from Smarthistory's catalogue; the title names its topic.
7:57A brief history of representing of the body in Western sculpture
207K viewsA 8-minute video from Smarthistory's catalogue; the title names its topic.
8:22A brief history of representing the body in Western painting
109K viewsA 8-minute video from Smarthistory's catalogue; the title names its topic.
2:17A brief tour of Smarthistory's new design
1.5K viewsA 2-minute video from Smarthistory's catalogue; the title names its topic.
4:55A bronze Buddha’s journey
3.33K viewsA 5-minute video from Smarthistory's catalogue; the title names its topic.
7:46A brutal history told for a modern city, Diego Rivera's Sugar Cane
53.6K viewsA 8-minute video from Smarthistory's catalogue; the title names its topic.
4:56A celebration of beauty and love: Botticelli's Birth of Venus
191K viewsA 5-minute video from Smarthistory's catalogue; the title names its topic.
3:58A dangerous escape to freedom: Eastman Johnson, A Ride for Liberty -- The Fugitive Slaves
11.8K viewsA 4-minute video from Smarthistory's catalogue; the title names its topic.
4:24A desert on fire, Salgado photographs Kuwait
11K viewsA 4-minute video from Smarthistory's catalogue; the title names its topic.
5:13A failed experiment: Medici porcelain
12.1K viewsA 5-minute video from Smarthistory's catalogue; the title names its topic.
7:11A garden for a poet: Hon'ami Kōetsu's folding screens
8.37K viewsA 7-minute video from Smarthistory's catalogue; the title names its topic.
6:59A knotted puzzle buried for a millennium
8.63K viewsA 7-minute video from Smarthistory's catalogue; the title names its topic.
6:36A landmark decision: Penn Station, Grand Central, and the architectural heritage of NYC
39.5K viewsA 7-minute video from Smarthistory's catalogue; the title names its topic.
4:51A magical landscape
6.25K viewsA 5-minute video from Smarthistory'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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