paintings

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Hermitage masterpieces

A tour of the Hermitage Museum, a famous art museum in St. Petersburg, Russia that houses masterpieces from ancient China, Egypt, Greece, Rome, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and contemporary Europe.

The gallery

In 1929 New York City, twelve-year-old housemaid Martha O'Doyle suspects that a wealthy recluse may be trying to communicate with the outside world through the paintings on her gallery walls.
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Leonardo da Vinci

Explains some basic techniques of Da Vinci by analyzing several of his better-known paintings.
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Mary Cassatt

family pictures
Discusses the life and the work of the Impressionist painter Mary Cassatt, as told from a child's point of view.
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Media in the 21st century

artists, animators, and graphic designers
Provides an overview of career opportunities in the twenty-first century for artists, animators, and graphic designers, and discusses education and training.
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Michelangelo

Presents a short biography of Italian Renaissance painter and sculptor, Michelangelo, describing his childhood and apprenticeship as well as his many masterpieces which includes the statue "David" and his famous fresco in the Sistine Chapel.
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