Course No. 7100.
Forty-eight lectures of thirty minutes each by William Kloss, independent art historian with Smithsonian Associates, the Smithsonian Institution.

"Topic: Fine Arts & Music

Part I : Lecture 1. Approaches to European art ; Lecture 2. Carolingian and Ottonian art ; Lecture 3. Romanesque sculpture and architecture ; Lecture 4. Gothic art in France ; Lecture 5. Gothic art in Germany and Italy ; Lecture 6. Giotto and the Arena Chapel: part 1 --
Lecture 7. Giotto and the Arena Chapel: part 2 ; Lecture 8. Duccio and the Maestà ; Lecture 9. Sienese art in the 14th century ; Lecture 10. The Black Death and the international style ; Lecture 11. Early Renaissance sculpture in Florence ; Lecture 12. Early Renaissance architecture in Florence. Part II : Lecture 13. Masaccio and Early Renaissance painting ; Lecture 14. Jan van Eyck and Northern Renaissance art ; Lecture 15. Northern Renaissance altarpieces ; Lecture 16. Piero della Francesca in Arezzo ; Lecture 17. Sandro Botticelli ; Lecture 18. Andrea Mantegna and Giovanni Bellini --
Lecture 19. High Renaissance painting in Venice ; Lecture 20. The High Renaissance: Leonardo da Vinci ; Lecture 21. The High Renaissance: Raphael ; Lecture 22. The High Renaissance: Michelangelo ; Lecture 23. Albrecht D̈ürer and German Renaissance art ; Lecture 24. Riemenschneider and Grünewald. Part III : Lecture 25. Netherlandish art in the 16th century ; Lecture 26. Pieter Bruegel the Elder ; Lecture 27. Mannerism and the late work of Michelangelo ; Lecture 28. Annibale Carracci and the reform of art ; Lecture 29. Caravaggio ; Lecture 30. Italian Baroque painting in Rome --
Lecture 31. Gian Lorenzo Bernini ; Lecture 32. Peter Paul Rubens ; Lecture 33. Dutch painting in the 17th century ; Lecture 34. Rembrandt ; Lecture 35. Poussin and Claude: the allure of Rome ; Lecture 36. Baroque painting in Spain. Part IV : Lecture 37. Louis XIV and Versailles ; Lecture 38. French art in the 18th century ; Lecture 39. Neoclassicism and the birth of Romanticism ; Lecture 40. Romanticism in the 19th century ; Lecture 41. Realism: from Daumier to Courbet ; Lecture 42. Manet and Monet: the birth of Impressionism --
Lecture 43. Monet and Degas ; Lecture 44. Renoir, Pissarro, and Cézanne ; Lecture 45. Beyond Impressionism: from Seurat to Matisse ; Lecture 46. Cubism and early modern painting ; Lecture 47. Modern sculpture: Rodin and Brancusi ; Lecture 48. Art between two wars: Kandinsky to Picasso.

The development of the arts in Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern era is an astonishing record of cultural achievement, from the breathtaking architecture of Gothic cathedrals to the daring visual experiments of the Cubist painters. We all have our favorite artists, periods, or styles from this immensely rich tradition, but how many of us truly know the full sweep of European art? How many of us can connect the dots of influences and inspiration that link the Renaissance with Mannerism, or that tie the paintings of the creator of modern art, Edouard Manet, to masterpieces from centuries earlier? These lectures feature more than 850 images of drawings, paintings, prints, sculptures, and architecture, beginning with the age of Charlemagne through the onset of World War II.