Chronological YouTube Study Videos
(Most or all of
the Art in the Western World videos were removed by You Tube for copyright and
or content. I was very disappointed when I went to add more. Maybe
this will get cleared up and they will be back on.)
General...The Louvre and the artworks, brief discussion by Robert Edsel
General
Architecture, Space, Motion and Technology
Egyptian
How Art
Made the World, More Human than Human
The
Classical Ideal and All things Greek
Greek
Beginnings part 1/10 living history series very short.
Greek Beginnings part 2/10 living history series very
short
Greek Beginnings part7/10 living history...Greek
Theatre
Greek Beginnings part 9/10 living history Greek
Influence on American architecture
Hellenic
Art a brief discourse on the influence of Greek art on
Western art and civilization.
Greek Columns
a brief comparison of the three orders of Greek columns
Optical Tricks of the Parthenon design
Opening of the New Acropolis Museum
How
Art Made the World, More Human than Human part 4
general dialogue on early Greek art principals
How
Art Made the World, More Human than Human part 5
How Art
Made the World, More Human than Human part 6
Diadoumenos (Youth Tying a Fillet Around His Head)
discussion of Greek Sculpture and the context of
"stolen" sculpture
Copy of
Praxiteles' statue of Venus (Aphrodite)
discusses the copy and that Romans had
reasons for copying Greek art.
Ancient
Greek Art Great music
accompanies images of Greek art
Greek Art
Great music accompanies
images of Greek art
Ancient Greek Art
Part I and
Part Two
Again...lots of images with music
Greek Red-figure Vase
discussion of vase by the painter Euphronios
Greek Black-Figure
Vase discussion of the story of Odysseus escaping from
the Cyclops, Polyphemus
The
Etruscans
The Ancient Centers of
Lazio regarding an Etruscan Art Exhibit, gives you a
sense for the influences on there art.
The
Etruscans a very brief history of Etruscans
Art
and Splendor of the Etruscans beautiful images along
with text make this a brief learning experience.
The Merry
Etruscans like the one above but more about their "happy" existence.
Life
in Rome
Life in Ancient Rome Part 1
Ancient Rome Part 1
Building Rome's Colosseum
Life in
Ancient Rome Part 2
Ancient Rome Part 2
Roman Engineering -
Aqueduct
Roman Architecture
Ancient Rome Part 3
Roman
Pantheon
Ancient Rome Part 4
Early
Christian, Byzantine, and Islamic Artworks
From Gods to God - Early
Christian Use of Pagan Imagery
Early Christian Art
Byzantine Culture: Jewel of
the Roman Empire
great music background,
book covers, reliquaries, manuscripts and lots of mosaics.
Byzantine
Exhibit at the Royal Academy of the Arts, London
a look at the smaller valuable objects from the Byzantine Empire with
discussion.
Islamic
Architecture
discussions of proportions
and purposes of Islamic architecture
Islamic Art and
Architecture
no discussions but beautiful
images set to music
Paradise
Found: Islamic Arts and Architecture pt. 1
Paradise
Found: Islamic Arts and Architecture pt. 2
Through the Middle Ages
Romanesque
Romanesque Architecture--good
narration and explanations
The Book of Kells
-
This is a 5 minute video with a good history of the Book of Kells.
The Structure of a
book from Medieval time period
Oloron
Sainte Marie
-early
12th c., Crusading spirit borne out in the iconography. Horseman reference
to Constantine and Charlemagne
Moissac - Saint-Pierre de Moissac
(Clunaic Church), tympanum has Apocalyptic vision of Christ in Majesty
St.
Trophime (Arles) -
relics of Saint Trophimus, sculpted facade in style of Classical Antiquity.
Central tympanum Apocalyptic vision of Christ in Majesty.
Speyer Cathedral
- very good, narrated description of Speyer
Cathedral.
Medieval Imagination
- brief commentary on manuscript illumination and
the importance of books
Religious
Destination: Santiago de Compostela
contemporary look at
pilgrimages to the famous destination.
CATHEDRAL
OF SANTIAGO OF COMPOSTELA Spain
a travel video
describing the cathedral
Pisa
Cathedral and surrounds
travel video
mostly about the cathedral, baptistery and campanile
San Miniato al Monte
narration is
personal in beginning but very good narration from middle to end
Differences Between the
Romanesque Church and the Gothic Church very
helpful...student friendly
Gothic Order
Notre Dame De
Paris Cathedral short travel video description of the
church
Saint Chappelle
brief
description/history
Engineering
the Impossible-Building Chartres
Brief overview of the
design change for Chartres
How
to Read a Gothic Cathedral
Lists images and stories
you see carved on a Gothic cathedral
Chartres
Cathedral
a student video
but well researched, sound is a bit grainy
Amiens Cathedral as a
Basilica
very short narrated video describing architecture
Late Italian Gothic
Art of Eternity - When East
Meets West Part 2
St. Francis of Asissi
and mendicant orders
Art of Eternity - When East
meets West Part 3
The changing figure of
Christ and Rise of the Virgin
Art of
Eternity - When East meets West Part 4
Introduces Duccio
and Cimabue
Sienna Artists
Duccio, Martini and Lorenzetti
Discussion
Nicola and Giovanni Pisano
discussion of their pulpits
Late Northern Gothic
Painters in
the North Pt. 1 - discussion by Charles Falco, Prof. at
Univ. of Ariz. in Optical Science. Discussion on how artists used lens to
transfer
images to canvas is in
several parts. Part 1actually starts about 8 minutes into the 10 video.
Painters of
the North Pt. 2
- very
interesting...could bring on many arguments by Art Historians
Painters of
the North Pt. 3
- this one gets a little scientific for those of us who are not into all the
details but the examples he talks about are valid.
By the 6th minute, he demonstrates how the whole process could have worked.
Painter
of the North Pt. 4 Uses the Arnolfini Wedding Portrait
and a Lorenzo Lotto painting as examples
Painters of
the North Pt. 5 and then skips to
the summary...apparently he ran out of time to do the whole presentation but the
last minute is
interesting
Rogier van der Weyden, the Deposition
- another analyses of art, academic look at the painting.
Campin,
The Merode Altar Piece - academic analyses, very informative.
The
Renaissance
Proto and Early Renaissance
Art of Eternity - When East
meets West Part 5
Giotto and the Arena Chapel paintings
(patron: Scrovegni)
Cimabue and Giotto Compared -
academic discussion of the Madonnas, the times and the differing style, somewhat
academic
Art of Eternity - When East
meets West Part 6
Daddi's Madonna at Or
San Michele, discovery of perspective and closing
The Florence Baptistery
- brief but thorough description
Brunelleschi and
the Cathedral Dome
- very quick and
informative
Donatello's
David
- short and sweet
General
Renaissance references include Botticelli,
Leonardo, Michelangelo, Mantegna, Bellini, and Titian
The
Italian Renaissance student produced, informative
The Renaissance in Florence
Part One,
Part Two
AP European History teacher give the "low down on the Renaissance in Florence.
The Renaissance in Rome
Part One,
Part
Two Same AP Euro Teacher as above
General Renaissance
video list from Smartarthistory:
The High Renaissance
Leonardo
- short Leonardo video, includes Last Supper
The following ten videos are parts to a biography of Leonardo da Vinci.
There are good historical references
surrounding the time of Leonardo's work. Parts 1-8 are approximately
9min.30sec. long. Parts 9 and 10 are significantly shorter.
Leonardo
Part One,
Part Two,
Part Three,
Part Four,
Part Five,
Part Six,
Part Seven,
Part Eight,
Part Nine,
Part Ten
Nature and the Renaissance
Painting
using Giorgione's The Tempest, nature is discussed in this painting.
Leonardo Da Vinci (part 1, 10 minutes)
The first of 18 parts to this series is very
detailed. (I only linked part one but once you are on that site, you can
get to
to the other 17 parts. Inventions are recreated to see if they really work, research on who Mona Lisa really was, all of the people Leonardo worked for and their
political situations are
are explored. 3 hours of videos is a bit much but
they are very good.
Renaissance
Artists -
Michelangelo and Raphael paintings to music and
identified.
Michelangelo's Face
short, studies of
Michelangelo's facial features, interesting
Michelangelo's Pieta
Some re-enactment but interesting.
Raphael (Sanzio)
Images to music, identifications go very fast
School of Athens +
paintings of the Stanza Della Segnatura
Beautiful music at beginning and end, a guide takes you through the paintings.
For humor only...Monty
Python's The Pope and Michelangelo, (should have been Leonardo!)
Venetian Artists
Palladio works
are identified and some have references to influences in design elements.
Titian
his paintings to music but no identification
Titian
Portraits no
identification
Bellini
can be watched in high quality, no identification but nice group of works
Mannerist Art and
Artists
Sonfonisba Anguissola
Italian Mannerist Painter, court painter to Phillip II of
Spain
El Greco
Paintings of the artist
El
Greco (part 2)
Paintings of the artist
Bronzino
Paintings of the artist
Pontormo and Mannerism
Great discussion of the style and characteristics of mannerism
using Raphael and Pontormo
Bologna
Rape of the Sabine Women-playful Photoshop images of the sculpture
Bronzino and the Mannerist Portrait - academic
analyses...good definition of Mannerism
Northern Renaissance
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
- familiar as well as unfamiliar images of
Bruegel. to music only
Albrecht
Durer -
Part One,
Part Two,
Part Three,
Part Four,
Part Five,
Part Six
wonderful, in depth biography
Albrecht
Durer - brief bio and
description of his analytical mind...narrated
Albrecht Durer - Narrated as if Durer
himself was doing it but a bit robotic...otherwise, good information
The
Baroque
General Baroque video list from
Smartarthistory
The Flemish and Dutch
Baroque
Peter Paul
Ruebens The beautiful 10 minute video has no
narration but all music...nearly all of his work but not
chronologically
Rembrandt morphed
self portraits...pretty interesting...didn't know he made so many
Rembrandt
part
3 from a 1936 Hollywood film starring
Charles Laughton, reaction to the Nightwatch painting
Rembrandt
part 10 from 1936 movie...Hendricka creates an art dealership to sell
Rembrandt's paintings.
Vermeer
('girl w/ the
pearl earring' trailer to music)
Vermeer A master Painter
Vermeer
(video is 1 hour long) Charlie Rose
discussing the work of Vermeer as it is placed along side of other Delft School
painted in Holland.
The Italian
Baroque
Bernini-The
Power of Art-part 1- The Ecstasy of St. Teresa/ David/ early
sculptures
Bernini-The
Power of Art-part 3 - Apollo and Daphne/
competing with Boromini
Bernini-The
Power of Art-part 4 - Boromini-Bernini
competition
Bernini-The
Power of Art-part 7 - Cardinal Cornaro
and the Cornaro Chapel project
Bernini-The
Power of Art part 8 -lengthy
description of the Cornaro sculpture and architecture
Bernini-The
Power of Art-part 9 - closing history
on Bernini
Caravaggio's Doubting Thomas
Caravaggio
- 2 minute video, various paintings to music
Caravaggio
- painting techniques of the artist (narrated)
English Baroque
St. Paul's Cathedral by Sir
Christopher Wren
homemade video...mostly interior...zooms
are a bit hard to watch.
French Baroque
Versailles
part 1 brief history of Versailles
Versailles
part 2
the architecture and the whims of Louis XIV
Versailles part 3
Versailles
part 4 homage to Louis (XIV) the
"Builder"
Versailles
part 5 grounds and fountains
Rococo
Antoine
Watteau - Watteau's images to appropriate music
Francois
Boucher - Music accompanies 3 min. of artwork
Jean-Honore' Fragonard - The Progress of Love - brief history
of the painting series
Jean-Honore Fragonard - "sweet" view of his paintings to
music
Neo-Classical &
Romantic
Angelica Kauffmann
--artist's work discussed in the frame of the social and
political issues of the day.
Jacques-Louis David
--artwork to music...no identification.
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres --artwork of Ingres to music,
no identification
David and Ingres --images from both artists to
contemporary music, images are identified.
Francisco de
Goya --excellent information, but narrator does talk fast.
Goya
--music accompaniment to categorized images: portraits, religious, war art,
self-portraits, etc.
Raft of the Medusa
by Gericault interesting, almost 3-D effect in 1 1/2
minutes
Realists
Corot -
morphed portraits by the artist
Courbet
- short description of his realist work
Alfred Stieglitz,
Early Photographic Work - bio...interview with Georgia
O'Keeffe
Thomas Eakins
- (1 min.)
Millet
- best works to music
General list of videos from
Smartarthistory
Impressionism
Manet and his Dejeuner sur
l'Herbe
Degas Little Dancer (1
min.)
Claude Monet (short
documentary)
What is Impressionism...How did it start? -
Matthew Collings
Edouard Manet as presented by Matthew Collings
Influence of Manet and introduction to Monet -
Matthew Collings
Monet
and some Renoir - Matthew Collings
More
biographical on Monet - Matthew Collings
Water Lilies, then Cezanne - Matthew
Collings
Who was Cezanne? - Matthew Collings
End of Cezanne's life - Matthew
Collings
Cubism
Cubism -
very short intro to Cubism
Picasso
- short review
Picasso
- identified paintings to music
Guernica
- description of event
Guernica
- imagined as a 3D sculpture...quite interesting...3 min.
DADA
Duchamp and
His Art
Surrealism
Dali
- Short interview including a Dali film
Dali -
Surreal action film plus two commercials Dali made
Miro -
paintings to music, nice
Photography
Stieglitz
- A New Way of Seeing
Stieglitz,
Strand and Straight - photographers; interview with G.
O'Keeffe
Edward
Weston - photos to music
Weston, Cunningham and Adams - photos to music (pics not
identified)
An
Interview with Ansel Adams -- very good
Dorthea Lange -- touching photos of the great depression
Dorthea Lange/California Migrant Workers --narrated
Harlem Renaissance
Hayden, Douglas and Lawrence -- narrated history lesson on
Harlem renaissance
Romare Bearden -- short bio, well done
Jacob
Lawrence's Migration Series
Jacob
Lawrence, Treasures of Nebraska -- very short
Inside New
York's Art World: Romare Bearden, --
great information but nearly an hour long.
Abstract Expressionists
Jackson Pollock -- 2 min. discussion
Jackson Pollock -- narrated with the words of Pollock while
painting
Willem deKooning -- paintings to music, not in chronological
order
Action
Painting -- no audio and text is in Spanish
Inside New
York's Art World: Robert Motherwell -- long but quite
interesting
Inside New York's Art World: Lee Krasner, 1978 -- 28
min. of very interesting evolution of her style
General
Modern video list from Smartarthistory
Minimalists/Color Field
Mark Rothko
-- paintings to upbeat music
Mark Rothko
-- part 1, Simon Shama's How Art Made the World
Donald Judd
-- Ovation TV short
Pop Art
Introduction to Pop Art
-- very entertaining and good information.
Andy Warhol
-- simple
tribute
Roy
Lichtenstein
-- short discussion of his influence.
Pop Art and
Comic --
mostly Roy Lichtenstein, turn the music down...the sound effects seemed annoying
to the video.
Who Gets To Call It Art?
-- short, short
documentary...1960's use of art is well done.
Allegory of Painting: Jasper Johns
-- a visit to a Johns exhibit with crowd noises...interesting view of the work
Robert
Rauschenberg Obituary
-- although after his death...this is a great review of his life and work (not
so many images)
Oldenburg,
Claes --
Ovation TV short
Sculptors/Site artists:
Bourgeois, Louise: The
Spider, The Mistress and The Tangerine -- great little film
with her explanations
Chicago, Judy
-- The Dinner Party finds a permanent home at the Brooklyn Museum
Christo and
Jeanne-Claude, 1978 (Inside New York's Art World) --
interview with the two artists
Christo and
Jeanne-Claude, lecture in Barcelona in 2001 -- what can I
say...it's a lecture by Christo
Hepworth, Barbara -- images described by her own words
Hesse, Eva
-- images to music
Lin, Maya
-- Ovation TV
Nevelson,
Louise -- sculptor 1950's-1980's
Rodin
-- Images to music
Rodin: The Gates of
Hell -- the study of this one sculpture
Smithson, Robert
-- the Spiral Jetty
2-D works:
Hayden, Palmer -- Harlem Renaissance painter
O'Keeffe,
Georgia -- On New Mexico
O'Keeffe
and Adams -- their artistic relationship defined...good.
Sherman, Cindy -- Ovation TV short
Wood, Grant...his American
Gothic as explained by teens...actually, pretty relevant
Architects:
Pei, I. M. --
Ovation TV short
Piano,
Renzo -- Ovation TV short
Piano,
Renzo -- the art and science of
sustainable materials and the art of architecture
Wright, Frank Lloyd
-- Ovation TV short
Contemporary videos using
famous artworks
Women in
Art...morphed images
Women in
Art Part 2...morphed images
Men in
Art...non morphed images
Smartarthistory
video list