Oiloncanvas

(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 in the Louvre and we're looking at a late Jacques-Louis David, The Intervention of the Sabine Women. It was meant as a pendant to Poussin's earlier...

(piano music playing) Steven: We now live in a culture where the new is sought after or the new is something that we want, but in Victorian culture, the new was something that was not always trusted....

(music) ("In The Sky With Diamonds" by Scalding Lucy) Beth: We're in the Louvre and we're looking at Géricault's enormous painting, the Raft of the Medusa...

Male voiceover: Well, here we are looking at Guercino's painting of St. Luke painting the Virgin and Child, or St. Luke at the easel. This is an interesting painting to talk about from several...

(piano playing) Steven: Hera, Zeus's wife, was really jealous. Beth: And with very good reason, he was often fooling around. Steven: He would take on disguises to help him get away with his...

(piano music) Man: We're at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. We're looking at Edouard Manet's The Railway, which is one of their great canvases. Woman: And one of my...

(piano music) Woman: We're looking at Millais The Vale of Rest from 1858 to 59. This is really Millais' last painting in this pre-Raphaelite style that would go on to become a little...

(piano music) Voiceover: We're in the Musee d'Orsay, standing in front of Renoir's beautiful 1876 "Moulin de la Galette." Voiceover: What really strikes is...