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This course includes
- 12h 14m of video
- 12 lessons
- Level: Intermediate
- Spoken in English
- Your place is remembered
- Free in full, no card
Lessons
2 sections · 12 lessons · 12h 14m total length
Lessons 1 to 1010 lessons · 10h
- Lecture 1, Introduction to History Painting1h 3m
- Lecture 2, Unintended Consequences: Antonio del Pollaiuolo's Hercules and Deianira (c. 1475-80)1h 1m
- Lecture 3, Darkness to Light: Garofalo's The Conversion of Saint Paul51m
- Lecture 4, "But, Lord, He Stinketh!": Marco Pino's The Resurrection of Lazarus1h 7m
- Lecture 5, Against Nature: Peter Paul Rubens's Hero and Leander1h
- Lecture 6, "To Paint the Way the Spartans Spoke": Gavin Hamilton's The Death of Lucretia1h 3m
- Lecture 7, Benjamin West's Agrippina Landing at Brundisium with the Ashes of Germanicus57m
- Lecture 8, John Trumbull and Historical Fiction: The Battle of Bunker's Hill, June 17, 1775 (1786)56m
- Lecture 9, Find the Hero: Ary Scheffer's The Retreat of Napoleon's Army from Russia in 1812 (1826)1h 1m
- Lecture 10, Handwriting on the Wall: John Martin's Belshazzar's Feast (1820)1h
What you need
- Some grounding helps; this one picks up past the basics.
Description
For six centuries, history painting—pictures based on stories from myth, scripture, and ancient and modern history—was the most prestigious work a painter could do. Renaissance artists and writers laid down the definitions, goals, and rules. We outline these and look at many examples of how they changed as pictorial narrative evolved until its eclipse in the 19th century.
Who this course is for
- People who know the basics of Humanities and want to go further.
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