Oiloncanvas

(piano playing) Dr. Steven Zucker: By the time Titian painted Christ Crowned with Thorns, he was towards the end of his very long career. He was the greatest artist of the Venetian Renaissance and he...

(jazzy music) Male: We're in the Musee du Louvre, and we're looking at Gros' massive canvas of Napoleon at the Pest House in Jaffa. Female: We're clearly not in Paris....

(upbeat piano music) Male voiceover: We're at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and we're looking at a painting by Paul Gauguin, The Red Cow from 1889. It's a really wild...

(piano playing) Dr. Giuntini: Parme Giuntini. I'm here with Robert Summers. We're looking at an impressionist painting, The Floor Scrapers by Gustave Caillebotte. The Floor Scrapers is...

(jazzy music) Male: I am there. I'm sitting on the cool marble. I'm listening. I'm rapt. Female: I want to be there! Male: (chuckles) So do I! Female: Alma-Tadema has captured...

(piano music playing) Steven: She stands against the window, looking out, but really looking in In a terribly gaudy purple nightgown. Out the window, we can see the city of London. We can see the...

(piano music playing) Steven: We're looking at Manet's The Balcony. It's really an extraordinary painting. I mean, clearly he's looking at Goya. We have a number of...

(piano music playing) Steven: We're in the National Gallery of Washington, D.C., and we're looking at François Boucher's Venus Consoling Love. This is a painting that probably...

(lively music) Dr. Zucker: [unintelligible] take paintings out of context and it's sometimes hard to remember that works of art were meant for domestic environments. Dr. Harris: Or churches or...

(piano playing) Man: The dory is riding up the great swell and the fisherman is taking that moment to make sure that he can see the ship he's got to reach. Girl: We're looking at...