Baroque

Gianlorenzo Bernini 

• 8 minute video, Bernini, Ecstasy of Saint Teresa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKcJvjP9zgY
• Virtual interior of the church of Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome (where Bernini’s Ecstasy of St. Teresa can be found): http://panoramy.zbooy.pl/360/show.html?max=1&p=rzym-kosciol-santa-maria-della-vittoria&lang=e&t=64

Caravaggio 

• Article with embedded 30 minute video (read the article – and if you have time watch the video): https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/artists/michelangelo-merisi-da-caravaggio

Artemisia Gentileschi 

• 5 minute video, Who was Artemisia Gentileschi? | National Gallery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eM3KLNOV-Q

Peter Paul Rubens 

• 5 minute video on Rubens’s Arrival (or Disembarkation) of Marie de Medici at Marseilles: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-history/monarchy-enlightenment/baroque-art1/flanders-1/v/rubens-arrival-or-disembarkation-of-marie-de-medici-at-marseilles-1621-25
• Half hour long video on Rubens’s Samson and Delilah: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGmST-tPbGs&t=45s

Rembrandt van Rijn

• 13 minute video, REMBRANDT: The Prodigal Son – ArtSleuth – S01 E05: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDAdJqCb0HE&index=14&list=PLCE31BDAB267650AC&t=0s
• Article with imbedded 30 min video and examples of work: https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/artists/rembrandt
• Slideshow with captions about Rembrandt: https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/exhibit/gQIy5zJkRg3DJg

Frans Hals

• 4 minute video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fEublFSTOg

Judith Leyster

• Article from the National Gallery in Washington D.C. : https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.1485.html
• 2 minute video, “Self-Portrait, c. 1630,” Judith Leyster: https://www.nga.gov/audio-video/video/self-portrait-leyster.html

Jan Vermeer

• 4 minute video, Why is Vermeer’s “Girl with the Pearl Earring” considered a masterpiece?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM_IzEAv5d4
• Slideshow with captions about Vermeer: https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/exhibit/PwLSTaVBUDTuLA
• 6 minute video with some questionable production decisions but with good content: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kfeWpLry3U&list=PLwxNMb28Xmpcp7jXVszdNruKUtHZ2zuZb

Rachel Ruysch

• 2 minute video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyV4TwY6ky4

Diego Velazquez

• 9 minute video on Las Meninas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKhfFBbVtFg

Nicolas Poussin

• 2 minute video on Nicolas Poussin, Et in Arcadia Ego: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-history/monarchy-enlightenment/baroque-art1/france/v/poussin-et-in-arcadia

Christopher Wren

• 5 minute video: London: Christopher Wren’s Churches: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYV8D007qRc
• 9 minute video: Wren, Saint Paul’s Cathedral: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmsejntbXRw

Rococo

Antoine Watteau

• 5 minute video: Antoine Watteau, Pilgrimage to Cythera: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZlH2JswO3Q

Jean-Honore Fragonard

• 5 minute video, Secrets of the Wallace: The Swing by Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1767): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ose70MS6684
• 13 minute video, Colin B. Bailey presents Fragonard’s ‘Progress of Love’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=404fQk9vckU

Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun

• 11 minute video: ArtSleuth 4 – VIGÉE-LEBRUN: Marie-Antoinette and her Children – Palace of Versailles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aiSy4cWFFg

Enlightenment

Joseph Wright ‘of Derby’

• 28 minute video: An enlightened experiment | Joseph Wright ‘of Derby’ | National Gallery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZfjOnQOqjE