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• 1.2 Web Media: SmartHistory.org’s “Duchamp and the Ready-Mades”

  Link: SmartHistory.org’s "Duchamp and the Ready-Mades" (Adobe Flash)
   
  Instructions: Please watch this video in order to get a sense, through the specific example of Marcel Duchamp’s art, for the debates inherent in the definition of art.
   
  About the link: SmartHistory.org is an open textbook on art and art history.  Watching this video should take approximately 10 minutes to complete.
   
  Terms of Use: This open educational resource is licensed under a Creative Common Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike: you may share and adapt the work under the conditions that you correctly attribute it, that you do not use it for commercial purposes, and, that in the case you adapt and distribute it, you do so under a similar license.

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• 2.1 Web Media: SmartHistory.org’s “For the Very Beginner”

  Link: SmartHistory.org’s “For the Very Beginner” (YouTube)
  
  Instructions: Please read this article (PDF) and watch this video for some useful preliminaries about art as it relates to history.  You will also get a glimpse of how style can evolve over time.
   
  About the Link: SmartHistory.org is an open textbook on art and art history.  Watching this video and reading the text should take approximately 20 minutes to complete.
   
  Terms of Use: The article and video above are released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0 (HTML).  It is attributed to SmartHistory.org and the original version can be found here (HTML and Adobe Flash). 

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• 2.3 Web Media: SmartHistory.org’s “The Skill of Describing”

  Link: SmartHistory.org’s “The Skill of Describing” (YouTube)
  
  Instructions: Please watch this video to get a sense for the way speaking about the formal attributes of a work of art can uncover meaning.  The video will also address how the form and the content of a piece are intrinsically merged.
   
  About the Link: SmartHistory.org is an open textbook on art and art history.  Watching this video should take approximately 5 minutes to complete.
   
  Terms of Use: The article above is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0 (HTML).  It is attributed to SmartHistory.org and the original version can be found here (Adobe Flash).

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• 3.1.3 Web Media: SmartHistory.org’s “Tempera Paint”

  Link: SmartHistory.org’s "Tempera Paint" (Adobe Flash)
   
  Instructions: Please watch this video to gain an understanding of the medium of egg tempera paint, which was very commonly used at the beginning of the Renaissance period, as well as the techniques (such as hatching) and effects associated with it.
   
  About the Link: SmartHistory.org is an open textbook on art and art history.  Watching this video should take approximately 15 minutes.
   
  Terms of Use: This open educational resource is licensed under a Creative Common Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike: you may share and adapt the work under the conditions that you correctly attribute it, that you do not use it for commercial purposes, and, that in the case you adapt and distribute it, you do so under a similar license.

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• 3.1.3 Web Media: SmartHistory.org’s “Oil Paint”

  Link: SmartHistory.org's "Oil Paint" (Adobe Flash)
   
  Instructions: Please watch this video to get a feel for the way the medium of oil paint was used during the Renaissance, its impact on the history of Western art, and the effects that can be achieved through its use.  Be particularly attentive to the video’s mention of the medium’s luminosity, versatility, and expressivity.  Note that this medium enables the artist to blend colors directly on the canvas.
   
  About the Link: SmartHistory.org is an open textbook on art and art history.
   
  Terms of Use: This open educational resource is licensed under a Creative Common Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike: you may share and adapt the work under the conditions that you correctly attribute it, that you do not use it for commercial purposes, and, that in the case you adapt and distribute it, you do so under a similar license.

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• 3.1.5 Web Media: The Getty Museum’s “Paul Cézanne’s Approach to Watercolor”

  Link: The Getty Museums’s “Paul Cézanne’s Approach to Watercolor” (YouTube)
   
  Instructions: Please watch this video in order to get a sense for the specificities of the medium of watercolor, as well as for the way in which the French artist Paul Cézanne made it his own. 
  
  Watching this video will take approximately 3 minutes.
   
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• 3.3.1 Web Media: The Victoria and Albert Museum’s “Printing 1450–1520”

  Link: The Victoria and Albert Museum’s “Printing 1450–1520” (HTML, Adobe Flash)
   
  Instructions: Please read the article and view the short video linked above.  The article discusses the emergence of printing in Europe during the Renaissance and the video shows how a woodcut would be made.
  
  This reading and video should take approximately 10 minutes to complete.
   
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• 3.3.2 Web Media: SmartHistory.org’s “Printmaking: Woodcuts and Engraving”

  Link: SmartHistory.org’s “Printmaking: Woodcuts and Engraving” (YouTube)
  
  Instructions: Please watch this video, paying attention to the fact that, in the relief process of printmaking (as with the technique of woodcut), the ink is applied to the raised areas of the block or matrix, whereas in the intaglio technique of engraving, the engraved lines will be filled with ink.  Note the different results that can be achieved through these two techniques.
   
  About the Link: SmartHistory.org is an open textbook on art and art history.  This video will take approximately 10 mintues.
   
  Terms of Use: The article above is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0 (HTML).  It is attributed to SmartHistory and the original version can be found here (Adobe Flash).

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• 3.4.1 Web Media: The Getty Museum’s “Early Photography: Making Daguerreotypes”

  Link: The Getty Museums’s “Early Photography: Making Daguerreotypes” (YouTube)
   
  Instructions: Please watch this video, paying particular attention to the fact that the daguerreotype was made with a copper plate.  Note that its exposure time is relatively long. 
  
  This video will take approximately 5 minutes to watch.
   
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• 3.4.1 Web Media: The Getty Museums’s “Photography: The Wet Collodion Process”

  Link: The Getty Museums’s “Photography: The Wet Collodion Process”  (YouTube)
  
  Instructions: Please watch this video, paying particular attention to the ways in which the process of the wet collodion represented an improvement upon the process of the daguerreotype.
  
  This video will take approximately 6 minutes to watch.
   
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• 3.4.2 Web Media: SmartHistory.org’s “Cartier-Bresson’s Behind the Gare St.Lazare”

  Link: SmartHistory.org’s “Cartier-Bresson’s Behind the Gare St.Lazare” (YouTube)
  
  Instructions: Please watch this video, in which Henri Cartier-Bresson’s photograph entitled “Behind the Gare Saint Lazare,” is discussed.  Pay particular attention to the topics of photography as snapshot and photography as art.  Listen carefully to the discussion of the visual elements and principles of design present within this photograph.
   
  About the Link: SmartHistory.org is an open textbook on art and art history.  This video will take approximately 5 minutes to watch.
   
  Terms of Use: The article above is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0 (HTML).  It is attributed to SmartHistory.org and the original version can be found here (Adobe Flash).

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• 4.1.1 Web Media: SmartHistory.org’s “Bronze Casting”

  Link: SmartHistory.org’s “Bronze Casting” (YouTube)
  
  Instructions: Please watch this video to gain an understanding of the Lost-Wax technique, which was for many centuries the most common technique of casting bronze.
   
  About the Link: SmartHistory.org is an open textbook on art and art history.  This video will take approximately 10 minutes to watch.
   
  Terms of Use: The article above is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0 (HTML).  It is attributed to SmartHistory.org and the original version can be found here (Adobe Flash). 

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• 4.1.2 Web Media: SmartHistory.org’s “Quarrying and Carving Marble”

  Link: SmartHistory.org’s “Quarrying and Carving Marble” (YouTube)
  
  Instructions: Please watch this video to gain an understanding of the technique of carving marble through the example of Michelangelo, a master of the medium.  Please note the difference between “additive” processes of sculpture and “subtractive” processes of sculpture.
   
  About the Link: SmartHistory.org is an open textbook on art and art history.  This video will take approximately 10 minutes to watch.
   
  Terms of Use: The article above is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0 (HTML).  It is attributed to SmartHistory.org and the original version can be found here (Adobe Flash). 

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• 4.2.3 Web Media: The Victoria and Albert Museum’s “Making a Stained Glass Panel”

  Link: The Victoria and Albert Museum’s “Making a Stained Glass Panel” (Adobe Flash)
   
  Instructions: Please watch this short video that will show you how stained glass panels are made.
  
  This video will take approximately 4 minutes to watch.
   
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• 4.2.5 Web Media: The Victoria and Albert Museum’s “Jacquard Weaving”

  Link: The Victoria and Albert Museum’s “Jacquard Weaving” (Adobe Flash)
   
  Instructions: Please watch this short video for an introduction to the process of weaving.  The video will first show you the basic technique for weaving.  Make sure you understand what a “loom” and a “plain weave” are.  The video will then introduce you to the “Jacquard weaving” technique.  Note that to make designs with the process of weaving, the decorative designs are woven within the fabric of the textile.  The designs, therefore, have to be completely planned for before the textile is woven with the loom.
   
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• 4.2.5 Web Media: The Victoria and Albert Museum’s “Oriental Carpet Videos by Jennifer Wearden”

  Link: The Victoria and Albert Museum’s “Oriental Carpet Videos by Jennifer Wearden” (Adobe Flash)
   
  Instructions: Please go to the webpage above and watch all the associated videos.  Curator Jennifer Wearden introduces us to oriental carpets and the techniques attached to their production.  Take notes on the important vocabulary and techniques she introduces throughout these videos.  The videos you should have viewed when you complete this subunit are as follows: “Oriental Carpets: Curator’s Introduction,” “Oriental Carpets: Basic Carpet Structure,” “Oriental Carpets: Carpet Construction,” “Oriental Carpets: Warp, Weft, and Knots,” “Oriental Carpets: Top and Bottom,” “Oriental Carpets: Edges,” “Oriental Carpets: Symmetrical Knots,” “Oriental Carpets: Counting Symmetrical Knots,” “Oriental Carpets: Assymetrical Knots,” “Oriental Carpets: Counting Assymetrical Knots,” “Oriental Carpets: Colour Variation,” “Oriental Carpets: Colour Abrash,” and “Oriental Carpets: Colour Corrosion.”
  
  These videos will take approximately 15 minutes to watch.
   
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• 4.4.2 Web Media: The Victoria and Albert Museum’s “Learn About Style: Arts and Crafts”

  Link: The Victoria and Albert Museum’s “Learn About Style: Arts and Crafts”
   
  Instructions: Please go to the webpage above.  Work through the five categories that you can access at the bottom of the page: “Learn About Style,” “People,” “Building and Interiors,” “Related Style,” and “Take the Quiz.”  Note that within each category, different subcategories can be accessed by clicking on thumbnail images. 
  
  This reading should take approximately 30 minutes to complete.
   
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• 4.4.2 Web Media: The Victoria and Albert Museum’s “International Arts and Crafts Microsite”

  Link: The Victoria and Albert Museum’s “International Arts and Crafts Microsite” (HTML)
   
  Instructions: Please go to the webpage above.  It was made in the context of a temporary exhibition held at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 2005.  It will introduce you to the international reach of the Arts and Crafts Movement.  First, click on “The Exhibition.”  Read the passages “Britain,” “Europe,” “America,” and “Japan” by clicking on their titles, and by clicking "Next Page" above the text.  Then, go back to “Home,” and click on “Explore.”  From there, view the “Exhibition Highlights.”  You can also go on an online tour by clicking on “Virtual Tour.”
  
  Reading, and viewing the exhibit should take approximately 45 minutes to complete.
   
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• 4.4.3 Web Media: The Victoria and Albert Museum’s “Art Nouveau Glass”

  Link: The Victoria and Albert Museum’s “Art Nouveau Glass” (Adobe Flash)
   
  Instructions: Please watch the video, which takes a close look at Art Nouveau Glass vessels while at the same time discussing the Art Nouveau movement more broadly.
  
  This video will take approximately 10 minutes to watch.
   
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• 5.2.1 Web Media: Smarthistory.org: Dr Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker’s “Victory Stele of Naram-Sin

  Link: Smarthistory.org: Dr Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker’s “Victory Stele of Naram-Sin” (Adobe Flash)
   
  Instructions: Please watch this video that discusses an important example of Akkadian art.
  
  This video will take approximately 5 minutes to watch.
   
  Terms of Use: This open educational resource is licensed under a Creative Common Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike: you may share and adapt the work under the conditions that you correctly attribute it, that you do not use it for commercial purposes, and, that in the case you adapt and distribute it, you do so under a similar license.

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• 5.2.1 Web Media: Smarthistory.org: Dr Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker’s “Law Code Stele of King Hammurabi”

  Link: Smarthistory.org: Dr Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker’s “Law Code Stele of King Hammurabi” (Adobe Flash)
   
  Instructions: Please watch this video, which discusses an important example of Babylonian art.
  
  This video will take approximately 3 minutes to watch.
   
  Terms of Use: This open educational resource is licensed under a Creative Common Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike: you may share and adapt the work under the conditions that you correctly attribute it, that you do not use it for commercial purposes, and, that in the case you adapt and distribute it, you do so under a similar license.

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• 5.3.1 Web Media: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: “Ancient Greece”

  Link: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: “Ancient Greece” (HTML)
   
  Instructions: This is an interactive resource.  Please look through the timeline of ancient Greece.  Click on the following links found within the timeline and read the corresponding essays: “Geometric Period,” “Archaic Period,” “Classical Period,” and “Hellenestic Period.”  Make sure to view the images that accompany these overviews by clicking on the “View Slide Show” option.
  
  This reading should take approximately 1 hour to complete.
   
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• 5.3.2 Web Media: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: “Italian Peninsula”

  Link: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: “Italian Peninsula” (HTML)
   
  Instructions: This is an interactive resource.  Please look through the timeline of the Italian Peninsula.  Click on the following links found within the timeline and read the corresponding essays: “Etruscan Culture,” “Roman Republic,” and “Roman Empire.”  Make sure to view the images that accompany these overviews by clicking on the “View Slide Show” option.
  
  This reading should take approximately 1 hour to complete.
   
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• 5.4.1 Web Media: SmartHistory.org’s “Byzantine Art: Justinian and his Attendants”

  Link: SmartHistory.org’s “Byzantine Art: Justinian and his Attendants” (YouTube)
  
  Instructions: Watch this video for a discussion of a mosaic in the church of San Vitale in Ravenna.  Make sure you understand that “Byzantine art” refers to art that bears the influence of the Byzantine Empire’s Christian art style.  Mosaic was one of the preferred mediums of Byzantine art.  Reflect upon the formal qualities of this art form, asking yourself why it might have been a medium of choice for Christianity in its early stages.
  
  This video will take approximately 10 minutes to watch.
  
  Terms of Use: The article above is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 license (HTML).  It is attributed to SmartHistory.org and the original version can be found here (Adobe Flash). 

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• 5.5.1 Web Media: SmartHistory.org’s “1300-1400 Proto-Renaissance”

  Link: SmartHistory.org’s “1300-1400 Proto-Renaissance” (YouTube)
  
  Instructions: Please watch this video in order to get a sense for the new formal qualities that made their way into art during the transitional phase between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
  
  This video will take approximately 11 minutes to watch.
  
  Terms of Use: The article above is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike License 3.0 (HTML).  It is attributed to SmartHistory.org and the original version can be found here (Adobe Flash). 

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• 5.5.1 Web Media: SmartHistory.org’s “Masaccio’s Holy Trinity”

  Link: SmartHistory.org’s “Masaccio’s Holy Trinity” (PDF and Adobe Flash)
   
  Instructions: Please read this article and watch the embedded video; they discuss an artwork that exemplifies the ideals of the Early Renaissance in Florence.
  
  This reading and video should take approximately 15 minutes to complete.
  
  Terms of Use: The article above is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike License 3.0 (HTML).  It is attributed to SmartHistory.org and the original version can be found here (HTML). 

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• 5.5.1 Web Media: SmartHistory.org’s “Campin’s Merode Altarpiece”

  Link: SmartHistory.org’s “Campin’s Merode Altarpiece” (YouTube)
  
  Instructions: Please watch this video in order to get a sense for how the ideas and ideals of the Renaissance started taking shape in Northern art.
  
  This video will take approximately 6 minutes to watch.
  
  Terms of Use: The article above is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike License 3.0 (HTML).  It is attributed to SmartHistory.org and the original version can be found here (Adobe Flash). 

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• 5.5.1 Web Media: SmartHistory.org’s “Leonardo’s Last Supper”

  Link: SmartHistory.org’s "Leonardo's Last Supper" (PDF) 
   
  Instructions: Please read the above text and watch a 13 minute video here (Adobe Flash), which discusses Leonardo Da Vinci’s The Last Supper, an artwork often considered exemplary in terms of its expression of High Renaissance values.
  
  This reading and video should take approximately 30 minutes to complete.
   
  Terms of Use: This article above is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike License 3.0 (HTML).  It is attributed to SmartHistory.org and the original version can be found here (HTML).

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• 5.5.1 Web Media: SmartHistory.org’s “Michelangelo’s David”

  Link: SmartHistory.org’s “Michelangelo’s David” (PDF)
   
  Instructions: Please read the text for a description of a sculpture by Michelangelo, one of the masters of the High Renaissance.
  
  This reading should take approximately 5 minutes to complete.
   
  Terms of Use: The article above is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike License 3.0 (HTML).  It is attributed to SmartHistory.org and the original version can be found here (HTML).

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• 5.5.1 Web Media: SmartHistory.org’s “Raphael’s School of Athens”

  Link: SmartHistory.org’s “Raphael’s School of Athens” (YouTube)
  
  Instructions: Please watch this video, which discusses a painting by Raphael, one of the masters of the High Renaissance.
  
  This video will take approximately 13 minutes to watch.
   
  Terms of Use: The article above is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0 (HTML).  It is attributed to SmartHistory.org and the original version can be found here (Adobe Flash).

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• 5.5.2 Web Media: SmartHistory.org’s “Parmigianino’s Madonna of the Long Neck”

   Link: SmartHistory.org’s “Parmigianino’s Madonna of the Long Neck” (YouTube)
  
  Instructions: Please watch this video, which presents a prime example of Mannerist art: The Madonna of the Long Neck by Parmigianino.  Take notes on the stylistic elements that distinguish it from High Renaissance art.
  
  This video will take approximately 7 minutes to watch.
   
  Terms of Use: The article above is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike License 3.0 (HTML).  It is attributed to SmartHistory.org and the original version can be found here (Adobe Flash). 

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• 5.5.2 Web Media: SmartHistory.org’s “Pontormo’s Entombment”

  Link: SmartHistory.org’s “Pontormo’s Entombment” (YouTube)
  
  Instructions: Please watch this video, which discusses another famous example of Mannerist art: Pontormo’s painting entitled “Entombment.”  Take notes on the stylistic elements that distinguish it from High Renaissance Art.
  
  This video will take approximately 10 minutes to watch.
  
  Terms of Use: The article above is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike License 3.0 (HTML).  It is attributed to SmartHistory.org and the original version can be found here (Adobe Flash). 

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• 5.5.3 Web Media: SmartHistory.org’s “1600-1700: The Baroque”

  Link: SmartHistory.org’s “1600-1700: The Baroque” (YouTube)
  
  Instructions: Please watch this video, which discusses and compares artworks from Protestant Holland and Catholic Flanders.  Please reflect and take notes upon how the differing religious contexts of these two regions affected the form and content of their art.
  
  This video will take approximately 13 minutes to watch.
   
  Terms of Use: The article above is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike License 3.0 (HTML).  It is attributed to SmartHistory.org and the original version can be found here (HTML). 

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• 5.5.3 Web Media: SmartHistory.org’s “Poussin’s Landscape with Saint John and Rape of the Sabines”

  Link: SmartHistory.org’s “Poussin’s Landscape with Saint John and Rape of the Sabines” (YouTube)
  
  Instructions: Please watch this video to get a sense for the distinctive classicizing style of French art in the seventeenth century.
  
  This video will take approximately 10 minutes to watch.
   
  Terms of Use: The article above is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike License 3.0 (HTML).  It is attributed to SmartHistory.org and the original version can be found here (Adobe Flash).  

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• 5.5.5 Web Media: SmartHistory.org’s “Romanticism”

  Link: SmartHistory.org’s “Romanticism” (YouTube)
  
  Instructions: Please watch this video for a discussion of the Romantic style as it emerged in nineteenth-century Europe.  Take notes on the distinctions between the Romantic style and the neoclassical style.
  
  This video will take approximately 13 minutes to watch.
  
  Terms of Use: The article above is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike License 3.0 (HTML).  It is attributed to SmartHistory.org and the original version can be found here (HTML).

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• 5.6.1 Web Media: SmartHistory.org’s “1848-1907: Industrial Revolution II”

  Link: SmartHistory.org’s “1848-1907: Industrial Revolution II” (YouTube)
  
  Instructions: Please watch this video, which discusses various art styles associated with rapidly changing European societies of the second half of the nineteenth century.  Take notes on the innovations associated with Realist, Impressionist, and Post-Impressionist art.
  
  This video will take approximately 12 minutes to watch.
   
  Terms of Use: The article above is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License 3.0  (HTML).  It is attributed to SmartHistory.org and the original version can be found here (HTML).

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• 5.6.3 Web Media: SmartHistory.org: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr Steven Zucker’s “Academic Art: Gérôme's Pygmalion and Galatea”

  Link: SmartHistory.org: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker’s “Academic Art: Gérôme's Pygmalion and Galatea” (QuickTime and HTML)
   
  Instructions: Please listen to the audio and read the accompanying article.  Understanding the artistic background of academic art will subsequently help you comprehend the break that modern artistic movements, such as realism, achieved.
  
  The listening and reading should take approximately 30 minutes to complete.
   
  Terms of Use: This open educational resource is licensed under a Creative Common Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike: you may share and adapt the work under the conditions that you correctly attribute it, that you do not use it for commercial purposes, and, that in the case you adapt and distribute it, you do so under a similar license.

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• 5.6.3 Web Media: SmartHistory.org: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker’s “Courbet’s Burial at Ornans”

  Link: SmartHistory.org: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker’s “Courbet’s Burial at Ornans” (Adobe Flash)
   
  Instructions: Please watch this video, which discusses an important Realist work by Courbet: “Courbet’s Burial at Ornans.”
  
  This video will take approximately 7 minutes to watch.
   
  Terms of Use: This open educational resource is licensed under a Creative Common Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike: you may share and adapt the work under the conditions that you correctly attribute it, that you do not use it for commercial purposes, and, that in the case you adapt and distribute it, you do so under a similar license.

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• 5.6.3 Web Media: SmartHistory.org: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker’s “Manet’s Le Déjeuner Sur l’Herbe”

  Link: SmartHistory.org: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker’s “Manet’s Le Déjeuner Sur l’Herbe” (Adobe Flash)
   
  Instructions: Please watch this video, which discusses an artwork by the historically most significant Realist painter painting after Courbet: Manet.
  
  This video will take approximately 7 minutes to watch.
   
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• 5.6.3 Web Media: SmartHistory.org: Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Steven Zucker, and Dr. Beth Gersh-Nesic’s “Édouard Manet's Olympia”

  Link: SmartHistory.org: Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Steven Zucker, and Dr. Beth Gersh-Nesic’s “Édouard Manet's Olympia” (Adobe Flash)
   
  Instructions: Please watch the video linked above and read the associated article.  They discuss an important artwork by the Realist painter Manet.  Take notes on its “modern” characteristics as well as on the way it was received by its contemporary audience.
  
  This video will take approximately 14 minutes to watch.
   
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• 5.6.4 Web Media: SmartHistory.org: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker’s “Monet’s Rouen Cathedral Series”

  Link: SmartHistory.org: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker’s “Monet’s Rouen Cathedral Series” (Adobe Flash)
   
  Instructions: Please view the video linked above.  It discusses a series of paintings (made by artist Claude Monet) that are good representatives of the Impressionist movement as a whole.
  
  This video will take approximately 4 minutes to watch.
   
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• 5.6.4 Web Media: SmartHistory.org: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker’s “Renoir’s Moulin de la Galette”

  Link: SmartHistory.org: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker’s “Renoir’s Moulin de la Galette” (Adobe Flash)
   
  Instructions: Please view the video linked above.  It discusses an Impressionist painting by artist Auguste Renoir.
  
  This video will take approximately 5 minutes to watch.
   
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• 5.6.5 Web Media: SmartHistory.org: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker’s “Post-Impressionsim, Seurat’s A Sunday on La Grande Jatte–1884”

  Link: SmartHistory.org: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker’s “Post-Impressionism, Seurat's a Sunday on La Grande Jatte–1884” (Adobe Flash)
   
  Instructions: Please view the video linked above.  It discusses an artwork by Georges Seurat.  Take notes on the characteristics of the painting that can be considered reactions to Impressionism.
  
  This video will take approximately 11 minutes to watch
   
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• 5.6.5 Web Media: SmartHistory.org: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker’s “Van Gogh’s Portrait of the Joseph Roulin”

  Link: SmartHistory.org: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker’s “Van Gogh’s Portrait of the Joseph Roulin” (Adobe Flash)
   
  Instructions: Please view the video linked above.  It discusses an artwork by Post-Impressionist artist Vincent Van Gogh.  Take careful notes, especially on the subjects of structure and color.
  
  This video will take approximately 5 minutes to watch
   
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• 5.6.5 Web Media: SmartHistory.org: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker’s “Cézanne's Still Life with Apples”

  Link: SmartHistory.org: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker’s “Cézanne's Still Life with Apples” (HTML, Adobe Flash)
   
  Instructions: Please view the video linked above and read the accompanying article.  They discuss an artwork by the Post-Impressionist painter Paul Cézanne.  Take notes on Cézanne’s relationship to older artistic traditions, how he at once reflected on visual traditions (including Impressionsim) and innovated through form.
  
  This reading and video should take approximately 10 minutes to complete.
   
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• 5.6.5 Web Media: SmartHistory.org: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker’s “Gauguin’s Vision After the Sermon: Jacob Wrestling with the Angel”

  Link: SmartHistory.org: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker’s “Gauguin’s Vision After the Sermon: Jacob Wrestling with the Angel” (Adobe Flash)
   
  Instructions: Please view the video linked above, which discusses artwork by Post-Impressionist painter Paul Gauguin.  According to speakers Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker, how is Gauguin’s use of color innovative?
  
  This video will take approximately 7 minutes to watch.
   
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• 5.6.6 Web Media: SmartHistory.org: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker’s “Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon”

  Link: SmartHistory.org: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker’s “Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” (HTML, Adobe Flash)
   
  Instructions: Please go the webpage above and view the video.  It discusses an impactful artwork made by Pablo Picasso in the early twentieth century: Les Demoiselles d’Avignon.  Please also read the associated article.
  
  This reading and video should take approximately 30 minutes to complete.
   
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• 5.6.7 Web Media: SmartHistory.org: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker’s “Abstract Expressionism, Pollock’s One: Number 31, 1950”

  Link: SmartHistory.org: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker’s “Abstract Expressionism, Pollock’s One: Number 31, 1950” (Adobe Flash)
   
  Instructions: Please go the webpage above and view the video, which discusses an artwork by the Abstract Expressionist artist Jackson Pollock.
  
  This video will take approximately 3 minutes to watch.
   
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• 6.2.1 Web Media: The Victoria and Albert Museum’s “Islamic Architecture of the Middle East”

  Link: The Victoria and Albert Museum’s “Islamic Architecture of the Middle East” (HTML, Adobe Flash)
   
  Instructions: Please read the article and view the seven videos linked above.  They will introduce you to some of the important Islamic edifices of the Middle East.
  
  The reading and videos should take approximately 20 minutes to complete.
   
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