What does it mean when we say "art is in the eye of the beholder?" How have artists' subjects changed over the centuries? This collection features diverse art forms (from ancient mosaics to modern cubism).
Beginning in the fifteenth century, the Medici family, more than any other, presided over this time of cultural change known as "The Renaissance."
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NOTE: This clip contains a segment on fourteenth-century art and its creative processes.
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Rodrigo Borgia, who became Pope Alexander VI, led a life marked by indiscretions and inappropriate behavior (especially for a Pope).
If a beast fighter could defeat a bear or a lion during the games, he would be held in very high esteem.
Have you ever wondered how people in Roman times made their glass vessels?
Allied planes, and the British 8th Army, attack German positions in Africa across a forty-mile front.
Not long after J. Howard Miller - the artist at Westinghouse who created the "We Can Do It!
On the 7th of July, 1947, the public information office at Roswell Army Air Field (in Roswell, New Mexico) reported the crash and recovery of a flying...
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