In the last episode, Charles Hazlewood explores the turbulent final years of the composer's life, and discovers he suffered a series of personal tragedies : his father and four children died, his wife... continue reading

posted by mauz15 1 decade 6 years 1 month ago • 1,819 views

Conductor Charles Hazlewood presents the second and concluding part of Tchaikovsky, a stunning drama documentary on the life of the great composer. We join Tchaikovsky as he makes the disastrous decision... continue reading

posted by mauz15 1 decade 6 years 1 month ago • 2,453 views

Conductor Charles Hazlewood presents the first in a two-part docu-drama recreating key moments in the life of the Russian composer. Second part: http://www.videosift.com/video/Tchaikovsky-Fortune-and-Tragedy-Episode-2... continue reading

posted by mauz15 1 decade 6 years 1 month ago • 2,274 views

This is a well-done slide show of Escher's famous art. It is set to "Mad World," by Tears for Fears and covered by Gary Jules. Masterful!

posted by silvercord 1 decade 7 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 1,225 views

music is Le conseguenze dell'amore - Pasquale Catalano from wikipedia: Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (July 12, 1884 – January 24, 1920) was an Italian artist, practicing both painting and sculpture,... continue reading

Titian, was the leading painter of the 16th-century Venetian school of the Italian Renaissance. Recognized by his contemporaries as "the sun amidst small stars" (recalling the famous final line of... continue reading

posted by mauz15 1 decade 5 years 12 months ago • 2,074 views

Peter Paul Rubens was a prolific seventeenth-century Flemish Baroque painter, the most renowned and sought after northern European artist of his day, and is now widely recognized as one of the foremost... continue reading

posted by mauz15 1 decade 5 years 12 months ago • 3,380 views

Painter, sculptor, and architect who settled in Spain and is regarded as the first great genius of the Spanish School. He was known as El Greco (the Greek). El Greco has been characterized by modern... continue reading

posted by mauz15 1 decade 5 years 12 months ago • 2,284 views

Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance, celebrated for the perfection and grace of his paintings and drawings. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional... continue reading

posted by mauz15 1 decade 5 years 12 months ago • 2,670 views • 23:37

Regarded as the greatest German Renaissance artist, Albrecht Dürer was a German painter, printmaker and theorist from Nuremberg. His still-famous works include the Apocalypse woodcuts, Knight, Death,... continue reading

posted by mauz15 1 decade 5 years 12 months ago • 2,668 views

a brief collection of Gauguin's work on Tahiti Island, with the Tahiti Choir singing. NSFW due to the bewbs. wiki says: Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903) was a leading Post-Impressionist... continue reading

Escher's famous drawing of a labyrinth comes to life.

posted by persephone 1 decade 7 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 1,259 views

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, April 15, 1452 - May 2, 1519 was an Italian polymath: scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, musician, and writer. The... continue reading

posted by gorgonheap 1 decade 7 years 4 months ago • 1,491 views

Cool kinetic sculpture at London's Heathrow Airport that uses flip dots to create various moving patterns. Hard to explain, so you must see this. I could watch something like this all day. Awesomesauce.

posted by kronosposeidon 1 decade 6 years 9 months 4 weeks ago • 7,109 views

From Wikipedia Andy Goldsworthy is a British sculptor, photographer and environmentalist living in Scotland who produces site-specific sculpture and land art situated in natural and urban settings.... continue reading

posted by eric3579 1 decade 6 years 7 months ago • 5,614 views • 3:56

A montage of beautiful artwork, each painted on a living canvas.

posted by persephone 1 decade 7 years 4 months ago • 4,898 views