Parthenon

[music] We've talked about Dürer as a great painter from Northern Germany, but Dürer was also a great printmaker. This is an excellent example to talk about Dürer's printmaking, in...

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(jazzy music) Male: We're in the Accademia in Venice and we're looking at Giorgione's The Tempest. Female: It's a painting from the very early years of the 1500s. Male:...

(piano music) Steven: We're in the new Acropolis museum, in Athens, looking at the Kritios Boy. Beth: We're in the very late archaic period. Some call this the severe style. We might...

(lively piano music) Voiceover: "I will not make any more boring art." Voiceover: "I will not make any more boring art." Voiceover: This is repeated, over and over...

(piano playing) Dr. Zucker: We're in the museum of the Cathedral of Siena and we're looking at one of the great Sienese's artist, Pietro Lorenzetti's The Birth of the...

(lighthearted music) Male Voiceover: Art so often focuses on the lives of kings, of biblical figures, of saints and martyrs, but what about everyday people? What about most of us? Female Voiceover:...

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(piano music playing) Man: We're in the antique collection in Munich, and we're looking at a small drinking cup by an artist whose name is Exekias from ancient Greece. Woman:...

(piano music) Male: We're on the top of a small mountain looking over a valley and the Aegean Sea. Female: At the Citadel at Mycenae. Now, Mycenae is the name of this place, but that name also...