Art Links
Thoughts on Nudity in Art
Talking to Kids about Objectification
Lesson 2
Prehistoric Art (NOTE: Article contains references to evolution.)
Prehistoric Cartoons Documentary (NOTE: Documentary includes mentions of evolution.)
Lesson 3
Contrapposto Explained (NOTE: Video studies nude sculptures.)
Lesson 4
Save the World with Beauty Video
Classical Orders of Architecture
The Development of Ancient Greek Architecture
What Did Ancient Rome Look Like?
Lesson 5
Illuminated Letter Step-by-Step Tutorial
Detailed Illuminated Manuscript Project
How To Make Illuminated Manuscripts Using Traditional Techniques
Lesson 6
Christ Pantocrator Divine and Human
Pantocrator, a Description of the Sinai Christ Icon
The Complex Geometry of Islamic Design
Advanced Islamic Design Tutorial (NOTE: This is an Islamic program, and other parts of the episode include readings from the Quran. To watch only the tutorial, begin at the 10-minute mark and end around minute 16.)
Lesson 7
Inside the World’s Oldest Stained Glass Workshop
Lesson 8
Lesson 9
Lorenzetti’s Good and Bad Government (NOTE: Video occasionally briefly shows nude figures.)
Lesson 10
Art History for Kids: Medieval & Renaissance Art
Renaissance Video (Advanced) (NOTE: Video shows artwork with nudity.)
Lesson 11
Donatello Mini Bio (NOTE: Video includes sculptures of nude figures.)
Donatello’s Marble Carving (NOTE: Video includes sculptures of nude figures.)
Carving Marble with Traditional Tools (NOTE: Video includes sculptures of nude figures.)
Donatello’s Magdalene (NOTE: Video shows nude sculptures.)
Lesson 12
How to Draw One-Point Perspective
One-Point Perspective with Words
Lesson 13
Ken Burns on the Genius of Leonardo da Vinci
How the Last Supper Was Painted
Leonardo Documentary (NOTE: Video shows artwork that includes nudity, as well as a brief discussion of Leonardo’s homosexuality.)
The Science of Fresco Painting (NOTE: Video briefly shows artwork that includes nudity.)
Lesson 14
Michelangelo & the Sistine Chapel (NOTE: Video includes distant images of the Sistine Chapel with obscured nudity.)
Michelangelo Mini Bio Part 1 and Part 2 (Advanced) (NOTE: Video includes nude figures.)
Creation Of Adam Hands - Charcoal
Creation of Adam Hands - Pencil
Painting the Sistine Chapel (NOTE: Video includes nude figures.)
Michelangelo’s David (NOTE: Video includes nude figures.)
Lesson 15
Why We Study Art (NOTE: Video includes artwork containing nude figures.)
How to Look at Art (NOTE: Video includes artwork containing nude figures.)
Lesson 16
How Raphael’s Portrait Changed Portraiture Forever
The Warrior Pope – National Gallery Lecture
School of Athens 1 (NOTE: Video includes artwork containing nude figures.)
School of Athens 2 (NOTE: Video includes artwork containing nude figures.)
Lesson 17
Titian Mini Bio (NOTE: Video includes artwork with nude figures.)
The Titian Painting That’s Been Stolen Twice (NOTE: Video includes artwork with nude figures.)
Titian’s Assumption of the Virgin
How Renaissance Artists Were Trained (NOTE: Video includes artwork with nude figures.)
Lesson 18
Lesson 19
Hidden Symbol in the Supper at Emmaus
Tenebrism (NOTE: Video includes artwork with nude figures and violent scenes.)
Lesson 20
The following videos include nude art and references to sexual violence. They are recommended for older students only.
Artemisia Gentileschi Mini-Bio (Advanced) (NOTE: Video includes artwork with nude figures and violent scenes.)
Artemisia and the Figure of Judith (Advanced) (NOTE: Video includes artwork with nude figures and violent scenes.)
Analysis of Artemisia’s Judith and Her Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes
Artemisia and Caravaggio’s Depictions of Judith Slaying Holofernes (NOTE: These paintings depict a violent scene; please preview before viewing/discussing.)
Lesson 21
Jan van Eyck Mini Bio (NOTE: Video briefly includes biblical artwork with nudity.)
Jan van Eyck Mini Bio (Advanced) (NOTE: Video includes artwork with nudity.)
Ghent Altarpiece (NOTE: This article includes artwork with nudity.)
Lesson 22
Bosch Mini Bio (Advanced) (NOTE: Video includes artwork with nudity and other possibly disturbing imagery.)
Dürer’s Woodcuts and Engravings
Lesson 23
Bruegel Documentary (Advanced) (NOTE: Video includes artwork with nudity and occasional imagery that some may find disturbing.)
3D Virtual Tour of Bruegel Gallery
Lesson 24
Rubens Mini Bio (NOTE: Video includes artwork with nudity.)
Rubens’s Daniel in the Lions’ Den
Rubens’s Descent from the Cross
Dramatic, Violent and Bold: A Hallmark of Sir Peter Paul Rubens (NOTE: Violent images featured.)
Lesson 25
The Many Faces of Rembrandt (NOTE: Video briefly shows artwork that includes nudity.)
Lecture on Rembrandt’s Works (Advanced)
How to Draw a Self-Portrait (Simplest)
How to Draw a Self-Portrait (Step-by-Step)
Lesson 26
Vermeer Mini Bio (Advanced)
Lesson 27
El Greco Mini Bio (NOTE: Briefly shows artwork with nudity)
El Greco Mini Bio (Advanced) (NOTE: Video includes artwork with nudity.)
Lesson 28
Introduction to Velázquez (article)
Pareja’s Calling of St. Matthew
What Makes Las Meninas So Captivating?
Is This the Best Painting in History? (Advanced)
Lesson 29
Watteau Mini Bio (NOTE: Video briefly shows artwork with nudity.)
Watteau’s Pilgrimage to Cythera
Fête Champêtre and Fête Galante
Fêtes Galantes at Versailles 1
Fêtes Galantes at Versailles 2
Dancing in the Garden: Basic Steps in Baroque Dance
Instructions on How to Dance the Minuet
Lesson 30
What Makes an Artist “Great”? (Advanced)
What Is Good Art? (Advanced) (NOTE: Video includes artwork with nudity.)
Art but Make It Sports Video (NOTE: Video includes artwork with nudity.)
Art but Make It Sports Article
Art but Make It Sports Examples
Lesson 31
Kauffmann’s Mother of the Gracchi (NOTE: Video includes artwork with nude figures.)
Kauffman, Mother of the Gracchi, and Neoclassicism (NOTE: Video includes artwork with nude figures.)
The Death of Marat: The Propaganda of Jacques-Louis David (Advanced)
The Consecration of Napoleon at the Louvre
Understanding the Styles of Art: Neoclassical
Common Characteristics of Neoclassical Art (NOTE: Video includes artwork with nudity.)
Lesson 32
How Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun’s Painting Conquered Europe
Lesson 33
Romanticism Explained through Paintings
Friedrich: The Painter Who Revolutionized Landscapes (Advanced)
Constable and the English Countryside
Romantic Art Movement (NOTE: Video briefly shows artwork with nude figures.)
Brief Introduction to the Sublime
Lesson 34
Turner’s Rain, Steam, and Speed
Géricault Mini Bio (NOTE: Video includes artwork with nude figures and carnage.)
Géricault’s Raft of the Medusa (Advanced) (NOTE: Video includes artwork with nude figures and violent imagery.)
Delacroix Mini Bio (Advanced) (NOTE: Video includes artwork with nude figures.)
Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People (NOTE: Video includes artwork with nude figures.)
The Genius of Turner: Painting the Industrial Revolution (Documentary) (NOTE: At 49:38-50:00, mention is made of Turner’s mistress, and a sketch with nudity is shown.)
J. M. W. Turner at the National Gallery
The Curious Case of J. M. W Turner’s Later Works
J. M. W. Turner: Understanding Modern Art
Lesson 35
Courbet Mini Bio (NOTE: Video includes artwork with nude figures. Additionally, due to the explicit nature of one of Courbet’s paintings, exercise caution when conducting research about this artist.)
Courbet’s The Stone Breakers (article)
Hunt Mini Bio (NOTE: Video includes artwork with nude figures.)
Hunt’s The Awakening Conscience
Overview of Realism Movement (article) (NOTE: Article includes artwork with nude figures.)
Introduction to Realism (NOTE: Video includes artwork with nude figures.)
Introduction to Realism (Advanced) (NOTE: Video includes artwork with nude figures.)
A Beginner’s Guide to the Pre-Raphaelites (article)
Examples of Pre-Raphaelite Art (article)
Introduction to the Pre-Raphaelites
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Lesson 36
The Popularity of Hokusai’s Great Wave
Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji by Hokusai
Hokusai-Inspired Printmaking Project
Views of Mount Fuji at Auction
Lesson 37
Hiroshige Mini Bio & 100 Famous Views of Edo
Hiroshige’s Evening Snow at Kambara
“Looking East: How Japan Inspired Monet, Van Gogh, and Other Western Artists”
Japonism Movement (article)
When Japonism Bewitched Europe (article)
How Japonisme Forever Changed the Course of Western Design (article)
Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji
Lesson 38
How Impressionism Began (NOTE: Video includes artwork with nude figures.)
Lesson 39
Why Monet Painted the Same Haystacks 25 Times (Advanced)
Berthe Morisot: The Forgotten Impressionist (NOTE: Video briefly includes artwork with nude figures.)
Lesson 40
Renoir’s Luncheon of the Boating Party
The Radical Art of Mary Cassatt (NOTE: Video briefly includes artwork with nude figures.)
Name That Impressionist Game (When prompted, play in Classic Mode.)
Lesson 41
Course of Empire Series Gallery
Hudson River School (article)
Virtual Gallery of Thomas Cole’s Work
Virtual Gallery of Hudson River School Art
Lesson 42
Brady Mini Bio (NOTE: Video includes photographs of battlefields with dead soldiers.)
Brady’s Civil War Photos at the National Archives
The Photographer Who Shaped Our Vision of the Civil War
How Photographers Change the Way You Feel about War
Photographs from the Civil War (NOTE: Video includes photos of subjects that may be upsetting; please preview for sensitive viewers.)
War Photography Pulls Between Aesthetics, Horror of Conflict (NOTE: Video includes photos of subjects that may be upsetting; please preview for sensitive viewers.)
Illuminating Photography: From Camera Obscura to Camera Phone
The Invention of Photography (article)
Media History Shorts: The Invention of Photography
Lesson 43
Whistler Mini Bio (NOTE: This is a clip from a longer documentary that is very well done, but please preview for your family as Whistler’s lifestyle was unconventional.)
An Introduction to Winslow Homer
How Winslow Homer Evokes the Power of Nature
Frederic Remington’s American West (Advanced)
Remington’s A Dash for the Timber
Lesson 44
Harriet Powers: A Story of Art and Faith
Conservation Spotlight: Henry Ossawa Tanner
Tanner’s Banjo Lesson (Advanced) (NOTE: Video includes depictions and discussion of historical uses of blackface and other racist stereotypes.)
Power's Description of Her Pictorial Quilt
Lesson 45
Cézanne Mini Bio (NOTE: Video includes artwork with nude figures.)
Cézanne’s Mont Sainte-Victoire
Painting a Still Life à la Cezanne (Advanced)
Cezanne-Inspired Still Life (Easier, Step-by-Step)
Lesson 46
Hiroshige’s Influence on Van Gogh
Stories from the Van Gogh Museum (NOTE: Some content on this website includes mature themes.)
Seurat and Color Theory for Kids
Seurat and Pointillism Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4
Seurat Mini Bio (Advanced) (NOTE: Video includes artwork with nude figures and mentions mature themes.)
Pointillism Tutorial (Basic)
Pointillism Tutorial (Intermediate) (Note: This video uses markers, but we recommend using Q-tips with paint instead!)
Pointillism Tutorial (Intermediate) (Note: This video shows this activity using outlines that have already been created. You can have your student choose an object they’d like to paint and then trace that figure onto the paper or use a coloring page that students can then paint!)
Overview of Pointillism (Activity Tutorial Included)
How Art Can Trick Our Minds: Pointillism and Optics
Lesson 47
Rodin Mini Bio (NOTE: Video includes artwork with nude figures.)
Rodin’s The Thinker (Advanced) (NOTE: Video includes artwork with nude figures.)
Lesson 48
Photos from the Carl Larsson House
Carl and Karin Larsson (article) (NOTE: Article includes artwork with nude figures.)
Lecture: Karin Bergöö Larsson and the Nordic Handicraft Revival (Advanced) (NOTE: Video briefly includes artwork with nudity.)
Lesson 49
Surprising Facts about Klimt (NOTE: Video includes artwork with nude figures.)
What Are the Elgin Marbles? (article)
Why the British Museum Has the Parthenon Marbles
Rescued or Seized? The Fight over the Parthenon Marbles
The Parthenon Sculptures (website)
The History of Museums (Advanced) (NOTE: Video includes artwork containing nude figures.)
World War II Looted Art (website)
Nazi Plunder: A History of Missing and Recovered Art Treasures (article)
Nazi Looted Art: The Holocaust Records Preservation Project (article)
Art Lessons for Students: Gustav Klimt
Lesson 50
Lesson 51
Footage of Matisse Making a Cut-Out
How to Make a Matisse-Inspired Collage
Matisse Collage (More Advanced)
Lesson 52
Piet Mondrian: A Life in 10 Snippets
Malevich and His Black Square (NOTE: Video briefly includes artwork with nude figures.)
Duchamp and the Concept of Art
Lesson 53
Picasso’s Guernica (NOTE: Footage may be disturbing. Please preview.)
Cubist Portrait (Elementary)
Cubist Portrait (Intermediate)
Lesson 54
Chagall Mini Bio (NOTE: Video briefly includes artwork with nude figures.)
Chagall and His Work (article)
Chagall’s Ceiling for the Paris Opéra (NOTE: Article includes artwork with nude figures.)
Lesson 55
The Life and Art of Sadao Watanabe (article)
Catalog of Sadao Watanabe’s Work
Explore the Japanese Collection at Mingei International Museum
Lesson 56
Nolde Mini Bio (article) (NOTE: Video includes artwork with nude figures.)
Pollock Mini Bio (Advanced)
Should We Separate Art from the Artist? (NOTE: Video includes artwork with nude figures and mentions more mature issues.)
Pollock-Inspired Action Painting
Intro to Abstract Expressionism
Abstract Expressionism: From “Jack the Dripper” to Color Fields
Lesson 57
Frankenthaler’s Mountains and Sea
Understanding Color Field Painting
Paint like Helen Frankenthaler
Color Field Painting (website)
Intro to Color Field Painting (article)
Lesson 58
The Philosophy Behind Rene Magritte’s Art (Advanced)
Lesson 59
Unveiling Edward Hopper: The Dark Genius Behind Iconic American Art (Advanced) (NOTE: Video briefly includes artwork with nude figures.)
Lesson 60
10 Amazing Facts about Georgia O'Keeffe
What Does Georgia O'Keeffe's Art Look Like?
How American Gothic Became an Icon
Lesson 61
Resisting Slavery with Poetry and Clay
Lesson 62
Harlem Renaissance (article, advanced)
Intro to the Harlem Renaissance
Pop Art Movement (article, advanced)
Lesson 63
How Gordon Parks Became a Master Storyteller
Discuss: The Making of Migrant Mother
Discuss: The Making of American Gothic (Discussion prompts focus on the video’s first 5 minutes.)