Courses
Learn to Look at Art
10 self-paced courses across 69 short lessons — learn to read a painting, then trace movements, eras and masters through the works themselves.
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How to Look at a Painting Six timeless ways to see what is actually on the canvas. -
Impressionism From the shadow of the Salon to the light of the modern eye, seven friends rewrite the rules of seeing. -
Dutch Golden Age A republic of merchants, a canvas of ordinary miracles, seen through the lens of Western collections. -
Renaissance Florence Money, math, and the human face: how Florence reinvented seeing through paint, not stone. -
Caravaggio & Baroque Chiaroscuro as drama, tenebrism as truth, and the shockwave that tore through Europe. -
Edo/Japonisme From the pleasure quarters of Edo to the studios of Paris, tracing the wave that reshaped modern art. -
Pre-Raphaelites Seven rebels who painted backwards to escape the Victorian present. -
Color & Light From the glowing haze of Luminism to the fractured beams of Pointillism, trace how painters dissolved the world into light. -
Mythology in Art From Botticelli's modesty to Boucher's boudoir, tracing how European masters reinvented the gods for five centuries. -
Portraiture Across Time From diplomatic precision to society's shimmer: five centuries of faces deciding how they want to be seen.