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(piano playing) Beth: We're in the church of Santa Maria dei Frari in Venice looking at the giant altar piece by Titian of the Assumption of the Virgin. Steven: It's 23 feet tall,...

(lighthearted music) Male Voiceover: Where do you go after the perfection of the high Renaissance? Female Voiceover: Exactly, if you're an artist in the 1520s, looking back at, for example,...

We could talk about this one too.But, I have no space to put that.I'm putting this here. The top of Lykavittos. It's Ayios Georgios of Lykavittos. It was very hot when I went there. My...

(jazzy music) Male: We're in the l'Orangerie in Paris and we're looking at a late Paul Cezanne, The Red Rock. This is actually one of my favorite landscapes by Cezanne. Female:...

(jazzy music) Male: We're looking here at Rogier van de Weyden's deposition dated to 1435. It's a very large painting. It is about 7 feet tall and 8.5 feet wide, representing...

(piano music) Steven: We wanted to talk about Andrea Mantegna's fabulous painting, Saint Sebastian. It's an early Renaissance painting, and Mantegna's interesting because he...

There it is. I couldn't find it when I was looking for it. My parents were immigrants from Finland. My father had a very hard and dramatic life story. He was interested in art, but never had...

(music) Female: This is a really strange painting, I think, with this man sticking his head into this room and this woman taking up this space He looks very stiff. Every time I see it at the Met I...

(piano music) Man: We're in the Accademia in Venice and we're looking at a relatively early Giovanni Bellini. This is the San Giobbe Altarpiece. Woman: This was made for a church here...

(piano playing) Steven: We're in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna and we're looking at a Rogier van der Weyden, one of the great Flemish artists of the 15th century. This is his...