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In this episode, the children discuss the work Nude in an Interior by Pierre Bonnard. In this work, there is a naked woman halfway through the wall of a colorful apartment. Pierre loved to spy on his wife in private moments and paint her in his paintings. His colorful painting style is derived from the Nabi movement. The Nabi style…

The children discuss the work The Triumph of Chastity by Piero della Francesca. It shows the man and woman looking at each other in profile in front of a vast landscape. This is a very famous cut from the painting, the Duke and Duchess of Urbino, a town in Italy. Piero was a huge star of painting in his time in the early Renaissance…

In this episode, the children discuss Fra Angelico's The Annunciation. This painting depicts one of the most important scenes in the Bible, the moment when the angel Gabriel announces to Mary that she is to become the mother of Jesus. Hence the name of this work 'The Annunciation'. The Italian who painted it is no…

The children discuss the mosaic work 'Cave canem' in Pompeii. A mosaic is a drawing made with small squares of very hard color in clay or glass. It is called tesserae. And when we stick these small squares together, it gives an image. The dog of this work, was discovered at the entrance of one of the most famous houses of…

In this episode, the children discuss Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi's Statue of Liberty. This woman, with a crown on her head and a torch in her hand, symbolizes freedom. Its creator is Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, a very famous sculptor of the nineteenth century. To mark the friendship between his country, France, and the United…

In this episode, the children discuss the painting The Cradle by Berthe Morisot. This painting shows a woman watching over a sleeping baby in a crib covered with a semi-transparent canvas. This work is not very large but it is full of details that give it a very realistic feel. Originally this artistic feat, Berthe made this great…

Children discuss the work The Terracotta Army. Several terracotta soldiers make up the world’s largest army of statues. This army is located in China, in the Mausoleum—that is, the tomb of Emperor Qin Shi Huang.

In this episode, the children discuss the painting The Nightmare by Johann Heinrich Fussli. As the title of this painting mentions, it depicts a nightmare. It is the most famous and creepy nightmare in art history. It is at this time, the fashion of the gothic literature that is scary. The whiteness of the woman dressed in white, the…

The children discuss the work L' ge d'Airain by Auguste Rodin. This is the first masterpiece by one of the greatest sculptors in history. This statue is considered perfect because its proportions are exact. In addition, Auguste gave it the size of a human being to make it look like his statue was a real person. But the most…

In this episode, the children discuss the work The Cyclops by Odilon Redon. Redon was a symbolic painter. This means that he was not interested in painting reality or nature. He liked to explore the fantastic and dreams. He is called the king of imaginary worlds!