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Giorgione, Three Philosophers, c. 1506 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna) Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris & Dr. Steven Zucker. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
This art history video lecture Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker discuss Giorgione's "The Tempest" c. 1506-8. At the Accademia in Venice.
Giorgione, The Adoration of the Shepherds, 1505-1510, oil on panel, 90.8 x 110.5 cm / 35 3/4 x 43 1/2 in. (National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.) Speakers: Dr. Heather Horton and Dr. Mark Trowbridge. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
Giotto's Arena (Scrovegni) Chapel, Padua, c. 1305, Part 1 Speakers: Dr. Steven Zucker & Dr. Beth Harris. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
Part 2: The Narrative Cycle from Giotto's Arena (Scrovegni) Chapel, Padua, c. 1305 Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris & Dr. Steven Zucker. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
Part 3: The Lamentation from Giotto's Arena (Scrovegni) Chapel, Padua, c. 1305 Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris & Dr. Steven Zucker. Created by Beth Harris, Steven Zucker, and Smarthistory.
Part 4: The Last Judgment from Giotto's Arena (Scrovegni) Chapel, Padua, c. 1305 Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris & Dr. Steven Zucker. Created by Beth Harris, Steven Zucker, and Smarthistory.
Giotto di Bondone, St. Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata with predella scenes of the Dream of Innocent III, The Pope Approving the Rule of the Order, and St. Francis Preaching to the Birds, c. 1295-1300 (originally, Church of San Francesco, Pisa), tempera and gold on panel, 3.13 x 1.63 m, original frame inscribed: "OPUS IOCTI FIORETINI.". Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
Giotto, The Entombment of Mary, 1310, tempera on poplar, 75 x 179 cm (Gemäldegalerie, Kaiser Friedrich-Museums-Verein, Berlin). Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
Giotto, The Ognissanti Madonna, 1306-10, tempera on panel, 128 x 80 1/4" (325 x 204 cm). Painted for the Church of Ognissanti, Florence Speakers: Dr. Steven Zucker and Dr. Beth Harris. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
Giovanni Bellini, San Giobbe Altarpiece, c. 1485, oil on panel, 471 cm × 258 cm / 185 in × 102 in (Accademia, Venice) Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris & Dr. Steven Zucker. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
Giovanni Bellini, San Zaccaria Altarpiece, 1505, oil on wood transferred to canvas, 16 feet 5-1/2 inches x 7 feet 9 inches (San Zaccaria, Venice). Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris & Dr. Steven Zucker. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
Giovanni Bellini, Saint Francis in the Desert, c. 1480, oil and tempera on poplar, 124.5 x 141.9 cm (The Frick Collection, New York) . View this work up close on the Google Art Project. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
This art history video discussion examines Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson's "The Sleep of Endymion", 1791, oil on canvas, exhibited in the salons of 1793 and 1814 (Musee du Louvre, Paris).
American Progress and a thoroughly modern chair. Chair; ca. 1948; Attributed to Henry Turchin, design direction by Louis Dierra (American, active c. 1939); Manufactured by the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, slumped plate glass, metal, woven textile; Museum purchase through gift of George R. Kravis II and from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund; 2013-1-1, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Speakers: Emily Orr, Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary American Design, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum and Dr. Steven Zucker, Smarthistory. Created by Steven Zucker and Beth Harris. Find learning related resources here: https://smarthistory.org/seeing-america-2/
Ancient glass makers near Jerusalem discovered they could inflate hot glass to make vessels quickly and more cheaply. Watch this ancient technique (footage from the Corning Museum of Glass). Created by Getty Museum.
Works in this series were created as part of an open pedagogy assignment for Professor Wolf's ART 4190r: Global Currents in Contemporary Art in Spring 2021 at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
Each work in this series includes a video presentation and associated paper with a biographical sketch and analysis of themes in the work of contemporary global artists.
Gloucester Cathedral, begun 1089 Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker. Created by Beth Harris, Smarthistory, and Steven Zucker.
How cinema transformed the dark streets of New York City. John Sloan, Movies, 1913, oil on canvas, 50.3 x 61 cm (Toledo Museum of Art) speakers: Dr. Lawrence W. Nichols, William Hutton Senior Curator of European and American Painting and Sculpture before 1900, Toledo Museum of Art and Dr. Steven Zucker. Created by Smarthistory. Find learning related resources here: https://smarthistory.org/seeing-america-2/