This art history video discussion examines Edouard Manet's "In the Conservatory", 1878-1879, oil on canvas (Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin).

This art history video discussion examines Edouard Manet's "Le Dejeuner Sur L'herbe" (Luncheon on the Grass), oil on canvas, 1863 (Musee d'Orsay, Paris).

This art history video discussion examines Edouard Manet's "The Balcony", 1868-69, oil on canvas, (Musee d'Orsay, Paris). The three principal figures depicted are each a friend of the artist. From left to right they are: the painters Berthe Morisot and Jean Baptiste Antoine Guillemet, and Fanny Claus, a violinist. Some have suggested that the fourth figure, barely visible in the shadows, is the young Leon Leenhoff, the son of Manet's wife.

This art history video discussion examines Andrea Mantegna's "Dead Christ", tempera on canvas, c. 1490 (Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan).

This art history video discussion examines Andrea Mantegna's "Saint Sebastian", oil on wood panel, ca. 1456-59 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).

This art history video discussion examines Mark Rothko's "No. 3/No. 13", 1949, oil on canvas (MoMA).

This art history video discussion examines the Painting Techniques of Mark Rothko: No. 16 (Red, Brown, and Black). Abstract Expressionist New York (The Museum of Modern Art) October 3, 2--April 11, 2011 MoMA.

This art history video discussion examines Francesco di Giorgio Martini's (attributed), Architectural Veduta, c. 1490, oil on poplar (Gemaldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin).

This art history video discussion examines Masaccio's (Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Simone) "Virgin and Child Enthroned", 1426, tempera on panel (National Gallery, London). Ser Giuliano degli Scarsi, a notary from Pisa commissioned this altarpiece for the chapel of Saint Julian in Santa Maria del Carmine, Pisa.

This art history video discussion examines Masaccio's "Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Eden", Brancacci Chapel, Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence, Italy, Fresco.

This art history video discussion looks at Masaccio's "Holy Trinity", c. 1427, Fresco, Santa Maria Novella, Florence.

This art history video discussion looks at Masaccio's "The Tribute Money", 1427, fresco (Brancacci Chapel, Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence).

This art history video discussion examines Henri Matisse's "Luxe, calme et volupte", 1904, oil on canvas, 37 x 46 inches (Musee d'Orsay, Paris). Painted while the artist stayed with the pointillist painter, Signac, at his home in Saint-Tropez on the Cote d'Azur. Matisse's title comes from Charles Baudelaire's poem, L'invitation au voyage (Invitation To A Voyage) from his collection, The Flowers of Evil. Luxe, calme et volupte translates just as it sounds in English, Luxury, calm, and voluptuous(ness).

This art history video discussion examines Henri Matisse's "The Piano Lesson", 1916 (The Museum of Modern Art).

This art history video discussion looks at Henri Matisse's "The Red Studio", oil on canvas, 1911 (MoMA).

This art history video discussion examines Medea Sarcophagus, 140 - 150 C.E., marble (Altes Museum, Berlin).

In this art history video discussion Beth Harris and Steven Zucker consider Michael Pacher's "Saint Wolfgang Altarpiece," 1471-81, polychrome pine, linden, gilding, and oil (sculpture and painting). Parish Church, Sankt Wolfgang, Austria.

This art history video discussion examines Michelangelo's "Laurentian Library" (vestibule and reading room), begun 1524, opened 1571, San Lorenzo, Florence.

This art history video discussion looks at Michelangelo's Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, 1508-12 (Vatican, Rome).

This art history video discussion examines Michelangelo's "Last Judgment" Sistine Chapel Ceiling, fresco, 1534-1541 (Vatican City, Rome).