AP®︎/College Art History
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Unit 1: An introduction to art history
Why art matters
Why look at art? ✓ Check-ins1:56
Must art be beautiful? Picasso's The Old Guitarist ✓ Check-ins6:21
How art can help you analyze ✓ Check-ins4:50
The Power to Look ✓ Check-ins4:22
What work of art inspired you? ✓ Check-ins2:25
Describing what you see: Sculpture (Henry Moore, Reclining Figure) ✓ Check-ins6:33
An introduction to art history
How to do visual (formal) analysis in art history ✓ Check-ins9:53
Art historical analysis (painting), a basic introduction using Goya's Third of May, 1808 ✓ Check-ins10:40
A brief history of representing the body in Western painting ✓ Check-ins8:22
A brief history of representing of the body in Western sculpture ✓ Check-ins7:57
The language of art history
Current issues in art history
Unit 2: Introduction to cultures and religions for the study of AP Art History
Beginner's guide for understanding religion in art
Hinduism
Buddhism
Christianity
The audacity of Christian art: the problem with Christ | National Gallery ✓ Check-ins6:21
The audacity of Christian art: Christ is not like a snail: Signs and symbols | National Gallery ✓ Check-ins6:15
The audacity of Christian art: Putting God in His place: Here, everywhere, and nowhere | National Gallery ✓ Check-ins6:40
The audacity of Christian art: Time and eternity: Yesterday, today, and always | National Gallery ✓ Check-ins6:40
The audacity of Christian art: This world and the next: Christ on earth; Christ in heaven | National Gallery ✓ Check-ins7:22
The audacity of Christian Art: So near and yet so far: Visions and thresholds | National Gallery ✓ Check-ins7:40
The audacity of Christian art: Unspeakable images: When words fail | National Gallery ✓ Check-ins7:40
Unit 3: Global prehistory: 30,000-500 B.C.E.
Unit 4: Ancient Mediterranean: 3500 B.C.E.-300 C.E.
Ancient Near East
Ancient Egypt
Ancient Greece
The classical orders ✓ Check-ins11:08
The Athenian Agora and the experiment in democracy ✓ Check-ins4:40
Anavysos Kouros ✓ Check-ins4:59
Peplos Kore from the Acropolis ✓ Check-ins5:02
Making Greek vases ✓ Check-ins4:20
Niobid Painter, Niobid Krater ✓ Check-ins6:05
Polykleitos, Doryphoros (Spear Bearer) ✓ Check-ins5:08
Parthenon (Acropolis) ✓ Check-ins16:04
Who owns the Parthenon sculptures? ✓ Check-ins10:47
Phidias, Parthenon sculptures (pediments, metopes and frieze) ✓ Check-ins14:25
"Plaque of the Ergastines" fragment from the frieze on the east side of the Parthenon ✓ Check-ins4:37
Victory (Nike) Adjusting Her Sandal, Temple of Athena Nike (Acropolis) ✓ Check-ins4:18
Grave Stele of Hegeso ✓ Check-ins3:27
Winged Victory (Nike) of Samothrace ✓ Check-ins3:27
Great Altar of Zeus and Athena at Pergamon ✓ Check-ins8:50
Alexander Mosaic from the House of the Faun, Pompeii ✓ Check-ins5:54
Apollonius, Seated Boxer ✓ Check-ins4:14
Ancient Etruria
Ancient Rome
Visualizing Imperial Rome ✓ Check-ins11:17
Digging through time ✓ Check-ins2:28
Veristic Male Portrait ✓ Check-ins3:00
Augustus of Primaporta ✓ Check-ins6:23
Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheater) ✓ Check-ins9:59
The Forum of Trajan ✓ Check-ins6:01
Markets of Trajan ✓ Check-ins3:55
Column of Trajan ✓ Check-ins8:28
The Pantheon ✓ Check-ins8:32
Ludovisi Battle Sarcophagus ✓ Check-ins5:34
Unit 5: Early Europe and Colonial Americas: 200-1750 C.E.
Medieval art in Europe
Catacomb of Priscilla, Rome ✓ Check-ins11:04
Basilica of Santa Sabina, Rome ✓ Check-ins6:42
Jacob wrestling the angel, Vienna Genesis ✓ Check-ins5:52
San Vitale, Ravenna ✓ Check-ins11:45
Hagia Sophia, Istanbul ✓ Check-ins11:04
Theotokos mosaic, apse, Hagia Sophia, Istanbul ✓ Check-ins5:01
Hagia Sophia as a mosque ✓ Check-ins6:48
Deësis mosaic, Hagia Sophia, Istanbul ✓ Check-ins5:09
The Lindisfarne Gospels ✓ Check-ins8:11
The Bayeux Tapestry - Seven Ages of Britain - BBC One ✓ Check-ins4:57
Chartres Cathedral ✓ Check-ins18:56
Röttgen Pietà ✓ Check-ins5:33
Giotto, Arena (Scrovegni) Chapel (part 1) ✓ Check-ins4:29
Giotto, Arena (Scrovegni) Chapel (part 2) ✓ Check-ins9:48
Giotto, Arena (Scrovegni) Chapel (part 3) ✓ Check-ins4:54
Giotto, Arena (Scrovegni) Chapel (part 4) ✓ Check-ins5:34
Renaissance Art in Europe
Workshop of Campin, Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece) ✓ Check-ins11:53
Brunelleschi, Pazzi Chapel6:25
Jan van Eyck, The Arnolfini Portrait9:09
Donatello, David ✓ Check-ins8:03
Alberti, Palazzo Rucellai ✓ Check-ins5:10
Fra Filippo Lippi, Madonna and Child with two Angels ✓ Check-ins3:57
A celebration of beauty and love: Botticelli's Birth of Venus ✓ Check-ins4:56
The Last Supper ✓ Check-ins6:41
Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel ✓ Check-ins6:47
Studies for the Libyan Sibyl and a small Sketch for a Seated Figure (verso) ✓ Check-ins3:01
Last Judgment (altar wall, Sistine Chapel) ✓ Check-ins7:29
Raphael, School of Athens ✓ Check-ins10:42
Pontormo, The Entombment of Christ ✓ Check-ins5:52
Titian, Venus of Urbino ✓ Check-ins4:02
Protestant Reformation and Catholic Counter-Reformation
Il Gesù, including Triumph of the Name of Jesus ceiling fresco ✓ Check-ins6:59
Bruegel, Hunters in the Snow (Winter) ✓ Check-ins4:27
Caravaggio, Calling of Saint Matthew and Inspiration of St. Matthew ✓ Check-ins6:22
Rubens, The Presentation of the Portrait of Marie de' Medici ✓ Check-ins5:08
Geometry and motion in Borromini's San Carlo ✓ Check-ins5:18
Bernini, Ecstasy of Saint Teresa5:58
Diego Velázquez, Las Meninas ✓ Check-ins10:58
Johannes Vermeer, Woman Holding a Balance ✓ Check-ins5:31
Rachel Ruysch, Fruit and Insects ✓ Check-ins4:04
William Hogarth, Marriage A-la-Mode (including Tête à Tête) ✓ Check-ins12:12
Unit 6: Later Europe and Americas: 1750-1980 C.E.
Enlightenment and revolution
Fragonard, The Swing ✓ Check-ins4:31
David, Oath of the Horatii ✓ Check-ins6:24
Ingres, La Grande Odalisque ✓ Check-ins4:12
Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People ✓ Check-ins5:59
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow ✓ Check-ins5:32
Turner, Slave Ship ✓ Check-ins4:02
Charles Barry and A.W.N. Pugin, Palace of Westminster (Houses of Parliament) ✓ Check-ins6:28
Modern and contemporary art
Manet, Olympia ✓ Check-ins8:03
Painting modern life: Monet's Gare Saint-Lazare ✓ Check-ins5:26
Velasco, The Valley of Mexico ✓ Check-ins5:25
Van Gogh, The Starry Night ✓ Check-ins5:08
Cézanne, Mont Sainte-Victoire ✓ Check-ins5:28
Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon ✓ Check-ins5:57
The first modern photograph? Alfred Stieglitz, The Steerage ✓ Check-ins5:37
Gustav Klimt, The Kiss ✓ Check-ins3:57
Constantin Brancusi, The Kiss ✓ Check-ins5:28
Kandinsky, Improvisation 28 (second version), 1912 ✓ Check-ins5:15
Meret Oppenheim, Object (Fur-covered cup, saucer, and spoon) ✓ Check-ins3:20
Jacob Lawrence, The Migration Series (*short version*) ✓ Check-ins5:20
Jacob Lawrence, The Migration Series (*long version*) ✓ Check-ins11:25
Duchamp, Fountain ✓ Check-ins3:12
de Kooning, Woman I ✓ Check-ins3:40
Mies van der Rohe, Seagram Building ✓ Check-ins7:16
Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty ✓ Check-ins6:51
Unit 7: Indigenous Americas
North America (including Mesoamerica)
Mesa Verde and the preservation of Ancestral Puebloan heritage ✓ Check-ins6:20
Unearthing the Aztec past, the destruction of the Templo Mayor ✓ Check-ins6:45
The Sun Stone (The Calendar Stone) ✓ Check-ins6:29
Coyolxauhqui Stone ✓ Check-ins5:30
Olmec mask (Olmec-style mask) ✓ Check-ins2:43
Feathered headdress ✓ Check-ins4:17
From quills to beads: the bandolier bag ✓ Check-ins3:24
Unit 8: Africa: 1100-1980 C.E.
West Africa
Central Africa
Southern Africa
Unit 9: West and Central Asia
West Asia
Central Asia
Unit 10: South, East, and Southeast Asia: 300 B.C.E. - 1980 C.E.
India
China
Japan
Unit 11: The Pacific
Unit 12: Global contemporary: 1980-present
20th century
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