This art history video discussion looks at the "Holy Thorn Reliquary" (made in Paris for Jean, Duc de Berry), c. 1390s, gold, enamel, ruby, pearl, sapphire, and rock crystal, 30 x 14.2 x 6.8 cm (British Museum, London).

A portrait of a president transformed by tragedy. Robert Rauschenberg, Retroactive I, 1963, oil and silkscreen-ink print on canvas, 213.4 x 152.4 cm (Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art) All works © Robert Rauschenberg A Seeing America video. A conversation with Patricia Hickson, Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art and Steven Zucker. Find learning related resources here: https://smarthistory.org/seeing-america-2/

Winslow Homer, The Fog Warning (Halibut Fishing), 1885, oil on canvas, 30-1/4 x 48-1/2 inches / 76.83 x 123.19 cm (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston). Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.

Winslow Homer, The Life Line, 1884, oil on canvas, 28-5/8 x 44-3/4 inches / 72.7 x 113.7 cm (Philadelphia Museum of Art). Speakers: Dr. Steven Zucker and Dr. Beth Harris. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.

Edward Hopper, Nighthawks, 1942, oil on canvas, 84.1 x 152.4 cm / 33-1/8 x 60 inches (The Art Institut of Chicago) Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris & Dr. Steven Zucker. 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 Edward Hopper's "Nighthawks", 1942, oil on canvas, 84.1 x 152.4 cm / 33-1/8 x 60 inches (The Art Institute of Chicago).

Discrimination undermined the sense of victory for African-American vets. Horace Pippin, Mr. Prejudice, 1943, oil on canvas, 46 x 35.9 cm (Philadelphia Museum of Art). A conversation with Dr. Jessica T. Smith, Susan Gray Detweiler Curator of American Art and Manager, Center for American Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Dr. Steven Zucker. Find learning related resources here: https://smarthistory.org/seeing-america-2/

House of the Eagles, sacred precinct of Tenochtitlan (now Mexico City), c. 1400–1521, and Mictlantecuhtli and Eagle Warrior, c. 1400–1521, terracotta and plaster, life-size, found in the House of the Eagles (The Templo Mayor Museum, Mexico City) A conversation between Dr. Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank and Dr. Steven Zucker. Created by Smarthistory.

A conversation between Dr. Steven Zucker and Dr. Beth Harris standing in front of Lysippos, Apoxyomenos, Roman marble copy after Greek bronze original dating to c. 300 B.C.E. (Vatican Museums, Rome, Italy), and ARCHES video. Created by Steven Zucker and Beth Harris.

Speakers: Dr. Steven Zucker & Dr. Beth Harris. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.

Speakers: Dr. Steven Zucker and Dr. Beth Harris. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.

Pierre Auguste Renoir, The Swing (La balançoire), 1876, oil on canvas, 92 x 73 cm (Musée d'Orsay, Paris) Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.

Giovanni Bellini, Madonna of the Meadow, c. 1500, oil and egg on synthetic panel, transferred from wood, 67.3 x 86.4 cm (The National Gallery) Speakers: Dr. Steven Zucker and Dr. Beth Harris.

A brief introduction to Italian Renaissance art. Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.

Claude Monet, The Basin at Argenteuil, c. 1872, oil on canvas, 60 x 80.5 cm (Musee d’Orsay, Paris). Speakers: Dr. Steven Zucker and Dr. Beth Harris.

This art history video discussion looks at Jan (and Hubert?) Van Eyck's "Ghent Altarpiece or The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb", tempera and oil on panel, (closed panels), Cathedral of Saint Bavo, Ghent, Belgium, completed 1432. Second Life correspondents Max Newbold and Sez Zabelin, discuss the closed Ghent Altarpiece (see the next video for a discussion of the open altarpiece) on the Vassar campus in Second Life.

This art history video is the second part of the discussion about Jan (and Hubert?) Van Eyck's "Ghent Altarpiece or The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb", tempera and oil on panel, (open panels), Cathedral of Saint Bavo, Ghent, Belgium, completed 1432.

Virgin of Jeanne d’Evreux, 1324-39, gilded silver, bases-taille enamels on gilded silver, stones and pearls, 68 cm High (Musée du Louvre). Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.

William Holman Hunt, Claudio and Isabella, 1850, oil on mahogany, 758 x 426 x 10 mm (Tate Britain) From William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, Act III, scene 1 (a room in a prison): ISABELLA What says my brother? CLAUDIO Death is a fearful thing. ISABELLA And shamed life a hateful. CLAUDIO Ay, but to die, and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world; or to be worse than worst Of those that lawless and incertain thought Imagine howling: 'tis too horrible! The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury and imprisonment Can lay on nature is a paradise To what we fear of death. ISABELLA Alas, alas! Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.

William Holman Hunt, Our English Coasts ('Strayed Sheep'), 1852, oil on canvas, 432 x 584 mm (Tate Britain, London). Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.