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"[Discusses] . . . the history of art, using cultural timelines to reveal little-known connections and influences between artworks and artistic movements"--Amazon.

Contains instructions on how to draw and design cartoon characters using the Japanese style of animation called anime.

Kat, who loves to make maps of all sorts of places and things, gives a special map to Jack.

Explores the famous artist's life, and illuminates the laughter, love, and tragedy that influenced her work.

Zee is torn between making a statement with graffiti and making art.

Annie and Jack present information about Leonardo da Vinci, discussing the world in which he lived as well as his work as an artist and scientist.

Despite the derision of their neighbors, a young French boy and his family befriend the lonely painter who comes to their town and begin to admire his unusual paintings.

The Renaissance is the remarkable story of the age in which the techniques and inspirations which had been lost since the classical era were rediscovered and reintroduced into the world of art. It was this golden age which inspired the likes of Leonardo da Vinci and Titian. This episode features the work of Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Holbein and Michelangelo, and includes such masterpieces as The Mona Lisa, The Last Supper and the Assumption.

Once the world of art had rediscovered the power to create great works, the new possibilites were taken and expanded by the Dutch masters in the North and by the likes of Valasquez and Caravaggio in the South. New limits of realism and expression were found. Featuring the work of Valasquez, Caravaggio, Frans Hals, Rembrant and Rubens, this entertaining and educational program also includes commentary and analysis by noted art historians of the Baroque and Neoclassical periods.

Never was a world so completely turned upside down as with the arrival of the Impressionist School. Cezanne, Seurat and Manet all produced inspirational and, at the time, even controversial works which completely revolutionized thinking in the world of art. These brave new visions were the inspiration for all that was to follow. This episode also features the work of Van Gogh and Degas, and explores such masterpieces as The Sunflowers, La Grande Jette and The Dancing Class.