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Leonardo da Vinci | The Last Supper
Season 9
One Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous works is not housed in a museum. It is in the Convent of Santa Maria in Milan Italy. It seems totally fitting for…
2 years, 1 month ago
Donatello | David
Season 9
Donatello’s statue of David, just like the story, seems straightforward and simple at first glance, but with great art, there is always more than mee…
2 years, 1 month ago
Emily Kame Kngwarreye | Earth's Creation
Season 9
Emily Kame Kngwarreye was born around 1910, a time when the Aboriginal people were not considered full citizens in their own country. Earth’s Creatio…
2 years, 1 month ago
Jan van Eyck | The Arnolfini Portrait
Season 9
Jan van Eyck was a remarkable painter. He worked in oils during the Renaissance, and created stunning photorealistic portraits centuries before photo…
2 years, 1 month ago
Xu Bing | A Book from the Sky
Season 9
Skipping ahead a few hundred years, the artist Xu Bing created Book from the Sky as a monumental print. It is probably among the most ambitious, labo…
2 years, 1 month ago
Frank Gehry | Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain
Season 9
Modernists said, “form follows function” focusing on how people will use a space, but Gehry focuses on how people will react to the space. His goal i…
2 years, 1 month ago
Louis Sullivan | Carson Pirie Scott Building
Season 9
In 1896, Louis Sullivan wrote about skyscrapers and architectural design in “The Tall Building Artistically Considered” This was the origin of the fa…
2 years, 1 month ago
Élisabeth Louise Vigée-LeBrun | Self-Portrait
Season 9
In 1778, Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun met Marie Antoinette at the Royal palace in Versailles. The queen had heard of Le Brun’s talent and asked to paint h…
2 years, 1 month ago
Frank Lloyd Wright | Falling Water
Season 9
Frank Lloyd Wright was one of America's most famous and influential architects. He famously said, "No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. …
2 years, 1 month ago
Jacob Lawrence | The Migration Series
Season 9
Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series was not his only narrative series of paintings, but it was his biggest hit. This collection of 60 painted panels te…
2 years, 2 months ago