Smarthistory at Khan Academy
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Giorgione’s mysterious Tempest…
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Jan Gossaert, St. Luke Painting the Madonna, c. 1515-25 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna)
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Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Allegory of Good Government, Effects of Good Government in the City and the Country, and Allegory and Effects of Bad Government in the City and the Country, Siena c. 1337-40, fresco, Sala della Pace (Hall of Peace) also know as the Sala dei Nove (the Hall of the Nine), 7.7 x 14.4 meters (room), Palazzo Pubblico, Siena
Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker
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“I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.”
For Paul Cézanne’s birthday today, Smarthistory’s analysis of the painter’s 1895-1898 masterpiece Still Life With Apples.
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Claus Sluter and Claus de Werve, Mourners, Tomb of Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, installed 1410, alabaster (Museum of Fine Arts, Dijon)
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Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Detail from the Effect of Good Government in the City and the Country, c. 1337-40, fresco, Sala della Pace (Hall of Peace) also known as the Sala dei Nove (the Hall of the Nine), 7.7 x 14.4 meters (room), Palazzo Pubblico, Siena
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Michael Pacher, St. Wolfgang Altarpiece, c. 1479-81 (Church of St. Wolfgang, St. Wolfgang, Austria)
Photo: Steven Zucker
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Ludovisi Battle Sarcophagus: Battle of Romans and Barbarians, c. 250-260, preconneus marble, 150cm high (Palazzo Altemps: Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome). This sarcophagus, also known as the Great Ludovisi sarcophagus (or the Via Tiburtina Sarcophagus), is thought to be a memorial to the wars between the Ostrogoths and Imperial Romans then taking place. It was found in 1621 and named after Ludovico Ludovisi, its initial modern owner.
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WTF Art History: Testing Mary's Virginity 
Spitz Master, The Nativity from Book of Hours, about 1420, tempera colors and gold leaf on parchment. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (Ms. 57, fol. 84)Perhaps the strangest, and least remembered, part of the Christmas story is when Salome’s hands were restored. Mentioned in the …
