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The Dexileos Stele: A Study of Aristocracy and Democracy in Greek Art
Article by James Lloyd

The Dexileos Stele: A Study of Aristocracy and Democracy in Greek Art

The Dexileos Stele assesses the way that Athenian political thought penetrated all levels of society, showing the conflict that the aristocratic classes were faced with in trying to find their place within the Athenian Democracy. As a visual...
The Megalithic Funerary Art of San Agustín
Article by Benjamin Oswald

The Megalithic Funerary Art of San Agustín

Beginning approximately 2000 years ago, in a rugged stretch of southwestern Colombia where the Andes split into multiple ranges and the mighty Magdalena River is born, a people created a collection of magnificent ritual and burial monuments...
Buddhist Monuments at Sanchi (UNESCO/NHK)
Video by UNESCO TV NHK Nippon Hoso Kyokai

Buddhist Monuments at Sanchi (UNESCO/NHK)

On a hill overlooking the plain and about 40 km from Bhopal, India is the site of Sanchi, which comprises a group of Buddhist monuments (monolithic pillars, palaces, temples and monasteries) all in different states of conservation most of...
The Artist Project: Buddhist Sculpture - Thomas Struth
Video by The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Artist Project: Buddhist Sculpture - Thomas Struth

Thomas Struth on Chinese Buddhist sculpture "It seems to be much easier to identify with this moment of stillness than with Jesus on the cross." The Artist Project is a 2015 online series in which we give artists an opportunity to respond...
Chinese Buddhist Cave Shrines
Video by Asian Art Museum

Chinese Buddhist Cave Shrines

Explores ancient Buddhist cave shrines in China, including why the sites were created and the major sponsors and patrons.
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Video by Nancy Ross

TICE ART 1010 Ancient Near Eastern and Ancient Egyptian Art

Overview of Ancient Near Eastern and Ancient Egyptian Art for TICE ART 1010.
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Video by Nancy Ross

TICE ART 1010 Greek and Roman Art

Overview of Greek and Roman Art for the TICE ART 1010 Course
82nd & Fifth: Chinese Buddhist Figure
Video by The Metropolitan Museum of Art

82nd & Fifth: Chinese Buddhist Figure

http://82nd-and-fifth.metmuseum.org/divinity Explore this object: http://82nd-and-fifth.metmuseum.org/arhat-luohan-china-21.76 "It looks like someone you might know, someone you might talk to." 82nd & Fifth invites 100 curators from...
Art This Week-At the Dallas Museum of Art-Inca: Conquests of the Andes
Video by artthisweek

Art This Week-At the Dallas Museum of Art-Inca: Conquests of the Andes

This week, we visit the Dallas Museum of Art and our interviewer, Aimee Cardoso, speaks with The Ellen and Harry S. Parker III Assistant Curator of the Arts of the Americas, Kimberly Jones, about the exhibition, Inca: Conquests of the Andes/Los...
Mahasanghika
Definition by Joshua J. Mark

Mahasanghika

Mahasanghika (“Great Congregation”, also given as Mahasamghika) was an early Buddhist school of thought which is thought to have been formed after the Second Buddhist Council of 383 BCE when it separated itself from another school, the Sthaviravada...
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