Special topics in art history
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Unit 1: ARCHES (At Risk Cultural Heritage Education Series)
Whose art? Museums and repatriation
From tomb to museum: the story of the Sarpedon Krater ✓ Check-ins7:34
Who owns the Parthenon sculptures? ✓ Check-ins10:47
Plunder, war, Napoleon, and the Horses of San Marco ✓ Check-ins8:10
Nazi looting: Egon Schiele's Portrait of Wally ✓ Check-ins8:29
Looting, collecting, and exhibiting: the Bubon bronzes ✓ Check-ins6:03
Napoleon's booty — Perugino's (gorgeous) Decemviri Altarpiece ✓ Check-ins4:49
Ruins, reconstruction, and renewal
The Roman Forum: part 1 of Ruins in Modern Imagination ✓ Check-ins7:33
The Roman Forum, part II ✓ Check-ins5:53
The Roman Forum, part III ✓ Check-ins6:40
Decoding the Rosetta Stone ✓ Check-ins5:50
Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheater) ✓ Check-ins9:59
The Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Paris (before the fire) ✓ Check-ins4:50
Reconstructing a masterpiece — Mantegna's St. James Led to his Execution ✓ Check-ins7:01
Place and identity
Palmyra: the modern destruction of an ancient city ✓ Check-ins5:58
Ancient Babylon: excavations, restorations and modern tourism ✓ Check-ins7:44
Venice's San Marco, a mosaic of spiritual treasure ✓ Check-ins7:56
The Renaissance Synagogues of Venice ✓ Check-ins6:17
Unearthing the Aztec past, the destruction of the Templo Mayor ✓ Check-ins6:45
A Jewish house in Damascus, Bayt Farhi ✓ Check-ins7:22
African Burial Ground, New York City ✓ Check-ins8:42
Seneca Village: the lost history of African Americans in New York ✓ Check-ins6:27
Reclaiming history, a Kwakwaka'wakw belt ✓ Check-ins8:20
Voyage to the moai of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) ✓ Check-ins7:57
The many forms of iconoclasm
The Severan Tondo: Damnatio Memoriae in ancient Rome ✓ Check-ins4:13
Alexander, the Mongols, and the great epic of Iran ✓ Check-ins6:07
Paradise in miniature, The Court of Kayumars — part 1 ✓ Check-ins6:59
Paradise in miniature, The Court of Kayumars — part 2 ✓ Check-ins3:15
Saved by shipwreck, The Antikythera Youth ✓ Check-ins4:39
Destruction, looting, and trafficking
Mesa Verde and the preservation of Ancestral Puebloan heritage ✓ Check-ins6:20
Save culture—end trafficking ✓ Check-ins2:47
What the bulldozers left behind: reclaiming Sicán’s past ✓ Check-ins8:36
Lost History: the terracotta sculpture of Djenné Djenno ✓ Check-ins6:03
The Looting of Cambodian Antiquities ✓ Check-ins7:36
The scourge of looting: trafficking antiquities, from temple to museum ✓ Check-ins2:08
How a famous Greek bronze ended up in Rome ✓ Check-ins6:54
Documenting and protecting cultural heritage
Diarna: documenting the places of a vanishing Jewish history ✓ Check-ins5:18
A Landmark Decision: Penn Station, Grand Central, and the architectural heritage of NYC ✓ Check-ins6:36
A race against time: manuscripts and digital preservation ✓ Check-ins6:41
Saving Torcello, an ancient church in the Venetian Lagoon ✓ Check-ins6:43
A Renaissance masterpiece nearly lost in war: Piero della Francesca, The Resurrection ✓ Check-ins8:17
The role of archaeology
What is archaeology: understanding the archaeological record ✓ Check-ins6:45- Saved by shipwreck, The Antikythera Youth ✓ Check-ins4:39
The importance of the archaeological findspot: The Lullingstone Busts ✓ Check-ins5:38
When there is no archaeological record: Portrait Bust of a Flavian Woman (Fonseca bust) ✓ Check-ins6:46
Cultural heritage endangered round the world
Unit 2: Creating & conserving
The conservator's eye
The conservator's eye: Marble statue of a wounded warrior ✓ Check-ins5:18
The conservator's eye: Taddeo Gaddi, Saint Julian ✓ Check-ins6:27
The conservator's eye: a stained glass Adoration of the Magi ✓ Check-ins7:10
The conservator’s eye: Rembrandt's Aristotle with a Bust of Homer ✓ Check-ins5:50
The conservator's eye: Madame Cézanne in the Conservatory ✓ Check-ins5:20
Anselm Kiefer, Bohemia Lies by the Sea ✓ Check-ins5:28
What is conservation?
About color
Painting materials and techniques
Tempera paint ✓ Check-ins11:48
Gold-ground panel painting ✓ Check-ins10:23
Oil paint ✓ Check-ins6:37
Oil paint in Venice ✓ Check-ins4:02
How to stretch a large canvas ✓ Check-ins6:38
Almost Invisible: The Cartoon Transfer Process ✓ Check-ins4:18
Renaissance Watercolours: materials and techniques ✓ Check-ins5:10
Painting conservation
Conservation of paintings ✓ Check-ins4:50
Conservation: portrait miniatures ✓ Check-ins5:37
Ghent Altarpiece project overview2:15
Conserving a portrait of King Edward VI ✓ Check-ins6:38
Jan Gossart - Conservation Discoveries9:30
Conserving Velázquez's Portrait of Philip IV ✓ Check-ins19:08
Conserving van Walscapelle's Flowers in a Glass Vase3:17
Conserving Everhard Jabach and His Family5:06
Conserving the Virgin of Guadalupe4:11
Conserving Vincent van Gogh's Field with Irises near Arles1:43
Conserving Van Gogh's "Enclosed Field with Ploughman" Under Raking Light0:43
The Science of Van Gogh's Bedrooms ✓ Check-ins8:53
Restoring Rothko ✓ Check-ins17:27
Conserving Cuzco School Paintings ✓ Check-ins7:56
How to paint like...
The Painting Techniques of Jackson Pollock ✓ Check-ins4:02
The Painting Techniques of Mark Rothko ✓ Check-ins3:33
The Painting Techniques of Barnett Newman ✓ Check-ins3:50
The Painting Techniques of Franz Kline ✓ Check-ins3:55
How to paint like Yayoi Kusama ✓ Check-ins20:08
How to paint like Willem de Kooning ✓ Check-ins19:50
Investigating Rothko's Technique ✓ Check-ins2:48
Painting terms in action
Art Terms in Action: Turpentine Burn ✓ Check-ins0:30
Art Terms in Action: Palette Knife ✓ Check-ins0:28
Art Terms in Action: Stain ✓ Check-ins0:43
Art Terms in Action: Emulsion ✓ Check-ins0:52
Art Terms in Action: Enamel ✓ Check-ins ✎ Fixed a slip1:01
Art Terms in Action: Paint ✓ Check-ins1:26
Art Terms in Action: Tint, Shade, and Tone ✓ Check-ins0:51
Art Terms in Action: Viscosity ✓ Check-ins0:56
Sculpture
Working jade ✓ Check-ins3:49
Quarrying and carving marble ✓ Check-ins ✎ Fixed a slip8:58
Carving marble with traditional tools ✓ Check-ins2:48
Casting bronze: lost-wax method4:13
Casting bronze: direct lost-wax casting ✓ Check-ins8:38
Making a Spanish polychrome sculpture ✓ Check-ins12:03
After the Fall: The Conservation of Tullio Lombardo's "Adam"7:54
Object Conservation - Salisbury Cross5:29
Contemporary Art Conservation at Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum ✓ Check-ins3:53
Conservation: Cast of the Pórtico de la Gloria9:07
Conservation: The Nasrid plasterwork collection at the V&A15:37
Conservation: Playing Tipu’s Tiger ✓ Check-ins4:27
Conservation: The Wolsey Angels3:48
Printmaking
Drawing and manuscripts
Making manuscripts ✓ Check-ins6:20
Drawing with charcoal: historical techniques of 19th century France ✓ Check-ins4:56
Conserving old master drawings: a balancing act ✓ Check-ins4:09
Conserving Henri Matisse's "The Swimming Pool" ✓ Check-ins7:02- Renaissance Watercolours: materials and techniques ✓ Check-ins5:10
Photographs
Seeing Through Photographs ✓ Check-ins1:17
Before Photography - Photographic Processes Series - Chapter 1 of 12 ✓ Check-ins6:23
The Daguerreotype - Photographic Processes Series - Chapter 2 of 12 ✓ Check-ins6:19
Talbot's Processes - Photographic Processes Series - Chapter 3 of 12 ✓ Check-ins6:37
The Collodion - Photographic Processes Series - Chapter 5 of 12 ✓ Check-ins5:33
The Albumen Print - Photographic Processes Series - Chapter 6 of 12 ✓ Check-ins4:34
The Platinum Print - Photographic Processes Series - Chapter 7 of 12 ✓ Check-ins3:39
The Pigment Processes - Photographic Processes Series - Chapter 8 of 12 ✓ Check-ins5:44
The Woodburytype - Photographic Processes Series - Chapter 9 of 12 ✓ Check-ins3:35
The Gelatin Silver Process - Photographic Processes Series - Chapter 10 of 12 ✓ Check-ins7:32
Color Photography - Photographic Processes Series - Chapter 11 of 12 ✓ Check-ins6:01
Digital Photography - Photographic Processes Series - Chapter 12 of 12 ✓ Check-ins5:30
Ceramics and lacquer
Mosaic, metalwork and glass
Ancient and Byzantine mosaic materials2:38
How was it made? Micromosaics4:43
Medieval goldsmiths ✓ Check-ins5:14
An Art of Attraction: The Electrotyping Process3:06
Glassmaking technique: free-blown glass ✓ Check-ins2:04
Roman mold-blown glass ✓ Check-ins1:28- The conservator's eye: a stained glass Adoration of the Magi ✓ Check-ins7:10
Enamelling3:11
Textiles
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