William Holman Hunt, The Awakening Conscience, 1853, oil on canvas, 762 x 559 mm (Tate Britain, London). Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
Hannah Höch, Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany, collage, mixed media, 1919-1920. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
Icon of the Triumph of Orthodoxy (Byzantine), c. 1400, tempera and gold on wood, 39 cm x 31 cm (British Museum, London) Speakers: Pippa Couch and Rachel Ropeik. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
Does the figure emerge from the stripes of the flag, or do they imprison him? Benny Andrews, Flag Day, 1966, oil on canvas, 53.3 x 40.6 cm ©The Benny Andrews Estate (The Art Institute of Chicago), a Seeing America video. Speakers: Robyn Farrell, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art, The Art Institute of Chicago and Beth Harris. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker. Find learning related resources here: https://smarthistory.org/seeing-america-2/
This art history video discussion looks at Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola & Giacomo della Porta's "Church of Il Gesù", consecrated 1584, Rome; and Giovanni Battista Gaulli's (also known as il Baciccio) "The Triumph of the Name of Jesus", Il Gesù ceiling fresco, 1672-1685.
This art history video discussion examines the "Mihrab" (prayer niche), 1354--55 (A.H. 755), just after the Ilkhanid period, Isfahan, Iran, polychrome glazed tiles, 135-1/16 x 113-11/16 inches / 343.1 x 288.7 cm (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, La Grande Odalisque, 1814, Oil on canvas, 36" x 63" (91 x 162 cm), (Musée du Louvre, Paris). Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Princesse de Broglie, oil on canvas, 1851–53 (The Metropolitan Museum of Art). Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Steven Zucker. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Raphael and the Fornarina, 1814, Oil on canvas, 64.77 x 53.34 cm (25 1/2 x 21 in.) (Fogg Art Museum) . Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
Authentic experience in a world cluttered with reproduction. Roger Minick, Woman with Scarf at Inspiration Point, Yosemite National Park (Sightseer series), 1980, dye coupler print, 38.1 × 43.18 cm, ©Roger Minick (Los Angeles County Museum of Art), a Seeing America video. Speakers: Elizabeth Gerber, Museum Educator, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Beth Harris. Find learning related resources here: https://smarthistory.org/seeing-america-2/
A video from the Utah System of Higher Education (with special thanks to Dr. Nancy Ross) . Created by Nancy Ross.
A video from the Utah System of Higher Education (with special thanks to Dr. Nancy Ross) . Created by Nancy Ross.
A video from the Utah System of Higher Education (with special thanks to Dr. Nancy Ross) . Created by Nancy Ross.
Learn about the life of Martin Luther and his dispute with the Catholic church. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
Learn about the Catholic response to the Protestant Reformation. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
Learn about the varieties of Protestant religion that emerged from the Reformation. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
The gun that "won the West" also transformed American manufacturing and marketing. Elisha King Root for Samuel Colt, Experimental Pocket Pistol, Serial number 5, caliber .265 inches, barrel length 3 inches, overall length 7 inches, brass, steel, and iron, 1849-50 (Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Bequest of Elizabeth Hart Jarvis Colt), a Seeing America video Speakers: Brandy S. Culp, Richard Koopman Curator of American Decorative Arts at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art and Steven Zucker. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker. Find learning related resources here: https://smarthistory.org/seeing-america-2/
A conversation with Dr. Steven Zucker and Dr. Beth Harris in the Basilica of Santa Croce, Florence, in front of St. Francis and scenes from his life, 1240s-1260s, panel (Bardi Chapel, Basilica of Santa Croce, Florence). Created by Beth Harris, Smarthistory, and Steven Zucker.
Reconstruction of the Ishtar Gate and Processional Way, Babylon, c. 575 B.C.E., glazed mud brick (Pergamon Museum, Berlin). Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
This essay looks at Italian Futurism. It includes a short video featuring a work by 19th-century scientist and photographer Étienne-Jules Marey, whose chronophotographic (time-based) studies depicted the mechanics of animal and human movement.