What was happening in the world during the height and fall of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia? Created by Smarthistory.

What was happening in the world during the rise and height of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia? Created by Smarthistory.

Titian, Assumption of the Virgin, c. 1516-18, oil on wood, 22' 6" x 11' 10" (Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice) Speakers: Dr. Steven Zucker & Dr. Beth Harris. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.

Titian, Bacchus and Ariadne, 1520-23, oil on canvas now atop board, 69-1/2 x 75 inches (National Gallery, London). Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker. Part of a mythological cycle painted by Titian and Giovanni Bellini and commissioned by Alfonso d'Este, Duke of Ferrara that includes The Feast of the Gods and the Andrians. Originally hung in the studiolo or Camerini d'Alabastro of the Duke's Ferranese castle.

Titian, Christ Crowned with Thorns, ca. 1570--76, oil on canvas, 280 × 182 cm. (Alte Pinakothek, Munich) Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.

Titian, Madonna of the Pesaro Family, 1519-26, oil on canvas, 16' x 9' (Santa Maria Gloriosa die Frari, Venice). Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris & Dr. Steven Zucker. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.

Titian, Noli me Tangere, c. 1514, oil on canvas, 110.5 x 91.9 cm (The National Gallery, London). Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.

Titian and Palma il Giovane, Pietà, c. 1570-76, oil on canvas, 11'6" x 12'9" (Galleria Dell'Accademia, Venice). Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.

Titian, Venus of Urbino, 1538, oil on canvas, 119.20 x 165.50 cm (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence). Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.

This art history video discussion looks at Titian's "Venus of Urbino" 1538, oil on canvas (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence).

Kaphar takes a violent history and renders it visible in this modified portrait of Andrew Jackson. Titus Kaphar, The Cost of Removal, 2017, oil, canvas, and rusted nails on canvas, 274.3 x 213.4 x 3.8 cm, © Titus Kaphar (Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art) Speakers: Lauren Haynes, Curator, Contemporary Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and Beth Harris A Seeing America video. Find learning related resources here: https://smarthistory.org/seeing-america-2/

Tlaloc vessel, c. 1440-70, found Templo Mayor, Tenochtitlan, ceramic (Museo del Templo Mayor, Mexico City) Speakers: Dr. Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank and Dr. Beth Harris.

Tlatilco figurines (from the National Museum of Anthropology, but also including the Female Figure at the Princeton University Art Museum), ceramic, Tlatilco, Mesoamerica (present-day Mexico), c. 1200–600 B.C.E. Speakers: Dr. Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank and Dr. Steven Zucker. Tlatilco is a Nahuatl word, given to this “culture” later. It means “place of hidden things.” We don’t know what the people here called themselves. Around 2000 B.C.E., maize, squash and other crops were domesticated, which allowed people to settle in villages. The settlement of Tlatilco was located close to a lake, and fishing and the hunting of birds became important food sources. Archaeologists have found more than 340 burials at Tlatilco, with many more destroyed in the first half of the 20th century.

The funerary bundle of the Señora de Cao, headdress ornament and six nose ornaments, found in what is now the El Brujo Archaeological Complex, c. 400 C.E., Moche (Museo Cao, Magdalena de Cao, Peru) A conversation with Dr. Sarahh Scher and Dr. Steven Zucker. Created by Smarthistory.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge, 1893-95, oil on canvas, 48-1/2 x 55-1/2 inches / 123 x 141 cm (Art Institute of Chicago). Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.

This art history video discussion examines Verrocchio's (with Leonardo) "Baptism of Christ", 1470-75.

Verrocchio (with Leonardo), Baptism of Christ, 1470-75 Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.

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