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(jazz music) Woman 1: We are at the British Museum, standing in front of the Holy Thorn Reliquary, which was commissioned by Jean Duc de Berry. It's from about the 1390s in Paris and this is...

(piano music) Male voiceover: We're in the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., and we're looking at a really beautiful painting. It's Raphael's Alba Madonna from...

My name is Mirald Cake I am a 28 year-old artist living in Sarasota Florida I work at Ringling College of Art & Design, this is also where I graduated. I studied Illustration, My favorite...

Beth: Let's talk about Mannerist sculpture. Sal: When we're talking about Mannerist sculpture, one thing to keep in mind is that it shares the same basic characteristics as Mannerist...

(piano music) Male voiceover: We're in the Brera in Milan and we're looking at an enormous painting by Tintoretto, but this is only one of a series of paintings on the subject of Saint...

I'm Amy, and I work in the education department And I am Anna and I am the curator of Native American Arts. And we're standing in the Meso-American and South American gallery. And we...

(upbeat piano music) Dr. Zucker: Depicting the world before us is hard enough, but how does an artist depict a dream. Dr. Harris: Not just a dream, but a figure having a dream. We're looking...

(lighthearted music) Voiceover: So much 19th century French painting is about the locations of modern life, but there's another strain, there are artists who are looking to express the modern...

(jazz music) Dr. Zucker: The 18th century, the Age of Enlightenment was a time when rationalism was all-important. The light of the rational mind is sometimes not enough. Dr. Harris: We certainly see...