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Series of black and white frames depicting a woman moving from standing to sitting. Caption. Muybridge took 100,000 images of animals and humans in motion.

Nate talks to a woman in an art gallery. On the wall behind them is Andy Warhol's painting, "Gold Marilyn Monroe." Caption. "We are in front of the. I'm so excited."

Photo and text overlay collage with portraits of Nate and Andy Warhol, with a group of paparazzi with cameras pointing at Warhol. The background is a chalkboard list of things Warhol loved, such as Hollywood, Ice Cream, and Crazy Wigs.

Inside of an ornate chapel with carved stone columns, tile floors, and a stone sculpture of 3 people in different poses on display. Caption. "It was created by Michelangelo in the 1520s."

Still image from: Art History Explained at The Louvre! From the Mona Lisa to Winged Victory

Video of Nate with a chalk frame drawn around it is superimposed on a blackboard background on the left side of the screen, and a statue of a Roman emperor is on the right. Caption. "To put his face on the Roman coin."

Painting of people sitting and standing in a tiled, open air area. Spanish captions.

Still image from: Before the Mona Lisa Was Stolen: The Famous Salon Carré

Behind-the-scenes perspective of two TV cameras pointed towards an easel holding a fine art painting.

Closeup of a man wearing a green polo, eye glasses, and protective gloves as he holds an oil painting canvas upright with 1 hand on the top and the other cupped in front of the canvas. The back of the canvas faces the camera.

View of the Centre Pompidou area of Paris looking through a blue metal scaffolding on a hazy day. Skyscrapers appear in the background with lower storied buildings in the foreground.

Woman dressed in dark clothing sits and looks downward while strumming a cello with a bow.

Man's hands creating a bowl on a pottery wheel. Caption. So I'm going to cut out the inside of the foot ring.

Group of people running down a tree-lined road, wearing numbers on their shirts like they are competing in a race. Caption. Only 375 yards to go.

Matisse's painting called Woman with a Hat. The woman is wearing a colorful twentieth century French bourgeoisie outfit, complete with gloves, a fan, and an elaborate hat. Caption. She seems to be dressed in the best of fashion.

Picasso painting called Family of Saltimbanques depicts a group of 6 people wearing costumes, including a jester and ballerina. Caption. The people in the painting are circus performers.

Rousseau's Tropical Forest with Monkeys painting shows a lush exotic jungle with 2 monkeys, 1 black and 1 brown, holding green sticks.

Dark room with a wreath on the wall that is dimly lit with string lights weaved inside of it.

Illustration of a woman sitting in a chair under a tree with a little girl standing and leaning on her legs. Text reads, “Blake.”

Aerial shot of a person doodling a character on a black sheet of notebook paper. Spanish caption. Como que no se mueva fácil, como que.

Still image from: Georgia O'Keeffe: A Woman on Paper (Part 1)

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Still image from: Georgia O'Keeffe: A Woman on Paper (Part 3)

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Nate talks in front of a white brick wall with 2 orange and 2 red frames with photos of Nate creating various types of art. The word "pointillism" appears at the bottom of the screen. Caption. "All of this centers around our art term for the day.

Cartoon. A man wearing a jacket with popped collar and purple pants seated on a red couch in a kitschy art studio space. There are several paintings, a lava lamp, and lights winding up a column. Caption. I'm Andy, Andy Warhol.

Cartoon. A dark haired man wearing a jacket, vest, trousers, and wide-brimmed hat. He stands in front of an easel with mountains painted in an impressionist style in the background. Caption. Hello, I'm Claude Monet.

Cartoon. A man wearing a purple jacket and pink cravat stands on stage with a ballerina posing in the background. Next to him, an easel with a painting of a ballerina. Caption. I'm Edgar Degas, 1 of the world's greatest artists.

Cartoon. A thin man with a long beard and nose wearing a light green floppy hat and tunic. He's standing on a hilly landscape in the countryside. Caption. Hi, there! I'm Leonardo da Vinci.

Cartoon. A woman wearing a pink hat and holding a paintbrush and palette stands in a room with several paintings on easels. Caption. Soon I was painting in a whole new style.

Cartoon. Man wearing a multi-colored tunic, red tights, and brown boots stands on scaffolding holding a hammer and chisel. Behind him, an image of the top portion of the famous David statue. Caption. Hello, I am Michelangelo Buonarroti.

Cartoon. A moustached painter wearing a pink beret and blue tunic. He's holding a paintbrush, and palette. Behind him, a window looks out on a windmill and cottages on the water. Caption. I'm Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn.

Cartoon. Man with short spiky hair blown back, wispy mustache and beard, and a white wool vest looks out with a neutral expression. Behind him, a wavy pattern of blue brushstrokes in an impressionist style. Hello, I'm Vincent van Gogh.

Gold-framed surrealist painting by Salvador Dali portrays a man emerging from an egg.

Nate talks in front of a white background. Next to him is text that reads "Toba Sojo" above a black ink drawing of cartoon rabbits and frogs holding bows and arrows. Caption. "Named Toba Sojo, started drawing cartoons using animals."

White background with a black-ink drawing of an impossible triangle. The 3,D block triangle extends up to the right, straight across to the left, then back to the 3,D side of the first triangle side. Text on image reads, "Draw Stuff Real Easy."

Nate leans over a plywood table and points at a tablet. A piece of paper, pencil, eraser, and e-reader device are also on the table. Art and art supplies are behind him. Caption. "I found an image online I'll work with from the tablet."

Aerial view of the red-roofed buildings of Barcelona, Spain. A tall steeple adorns 1 of the closer buildings.

Still image from: Inside the Louvre: Exclusive Tour Inside This World Famous Museum

Still image from: Lab Six: Museums II (Spanish)

Still image from: Leonardo da Vinci for Kids

Black and white image of an optical illusion created from an interlocking pattern of white and black birds flying in different directions. Caption. Dark and light flocks of birds fly past one another.

Nate talks in front of a background showing piles of extremely colorful paint pigments. Caption. "Check this out."

Still image from: Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood: Caring for the Fish and Painting Portraits Together

Still image from: Museum Access: American Impressionists--Bruce Museum/Bush-Holley House (Greenwich, CT)

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Colorful poster for Ringling Bros Circus has images of Alf T. Ringling, Al Ringling, John Ringling, Chas Ringling, and Otto Ringling. Text reads, “Ringling Bros, Kings of the Circus World"

View of the Salvador Dali Museum sign in Peterburg, Florida with text that reads, "The Dali Museum, One Dali Boulevard.”

Still image from: Museum Access: The Adirondack Experience Museum

Still image from: Museum Access: The Best of World History

2 panels of an enlarged Charlie Brown comic. In panel 1, Charlie's kite is tangled in a tree. Lucy looks at it and says something indiscernible. In panel 2, she asks, "Do you want me to yell at it, Charlie Brown?" He says, "No, thank you, Lucy."

Still image from: Museum Access: The Empire State Building Museum

Round, modern white building seen from the courtyard at dusk. There are several tables with umbrellas in the courtyard next to 2 tall evergreen trees. The building has large windows revealing a circular staircase.

Several aged pieces of paper with indiscernible handwriting and drawings of machine prototypes, including a gas balloon, a compound bow, and some sort of rake.

Angled street view of the entrance of the Metropolitan Museum of Art at night. A lit-up water fountain is in front of the ornate Roman-style columns and archways, which are also lit up.

25 brightly colored face masks of differing styles and materials on display in a lighted case. Some are more animalistic, with horns, tusks, and large noses, while others are more humanistic.

Large, red, 4-story building with a green roof and many windows of varying sizes seen from the street. Many people walk around in front of it on a sunny day.

Blackboard background with Nate talking on the right and a black-and-white photo of men engaging in tug of war on the right. Each has a chalk border drawn around it. Caption. "You have to dig pretty deep into history."

Still image from: Origin of Everything: Can Tattoos Be Taboo?

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Low shot looking up along a white Greek column. Caption. From its columns to its foundations.

Nate wears a black shirt and talks in front of a grid-paper background with a sketch of the Roman Colosseum and a person's silhouette on it. Caption. "As well as Tunisian art."

Color portrait of Rembrandt's face. Head covered by a soft cap. Eyes look sideways and mouth is closed with mustaches above and under the lip.

Colorful painting depicts a nineteenth century Black man holding up 1 finger across from nineteenth century white man. A boat full of Black people is pulled ashore beneath roiling wave in background.

Still image from: Sculpture at the Louvre: Winged Victory Explained

Nate waves his hands as he talks in front of 2 photos, a side view and a front view of Issey Miyake's famous gold and teal Minaret Dress. Caption. "This made pieces very expensive and time-consuming to produce."

Giant bouquet of yellow, blue, purple, and green faux-glass balls of varying opacities arranged into a tall sculpture. Caption. "It's really incredible."

Rolling hills with evergreen trees and purple flowers. A black-and-white photo of a man's head appear on the left side of the screen, and a black-and-white photo of a cowboy on a horse is on the left. Caption. "Love the Wild West. Horses neigh."

Closeup of an ancient Greek red figure vase. Caption. The vase shows a low stage standing on wooden supports.

Painting of the front of the Louvre Museum in Paris with people approaching the entrance. Drawings of 3 mustachioed men wearing white jumpsuits appear on screen over the painting.

Closeup of a woman seated at a table in an office work room, looking at camera. A clipart image of a cloth money bag with a dollar sign appears below her and next to words that read, "Price. Cost. Quantity."

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Closeup of a hand holding a wooden tool while carving lines of Lapita inspired patterns into the rim of a moist clay plate. Red and gold clothing in background. Title bar reads, "Pottery-making Fiji-style. Oasis T, V. 2012."

Black and white photo of a family sitting in a makeshift tent. Individual in front leans on the back of a rocking chair. Woman holding a baby sits at the edge of the tent next to 2 young children in tattered clothing.

Closeup of a book open to an image of a pen that looks like a twig with gold rings at 1 end. Title bar reads, "Andrei Drozdov."

Still life painting of a pale green apple, a roll, a butter knife, and fluted glass vase resting on a beige surface. Title bar reads, "Giorgio Morandi, 1890 to 1964. Natura Morta. Oil on canvas, 1920."

Man wearing glasses looks at camera with eyebrows slightly raised. He sits in front of crowded bookshelves.

4 collaged rectangles arranged in a row. Each is composed of colorful torn paper with glimpses of text.

Woman wearing glasses looks at camera as she speaks. A grid of artwork forms the backdrop.

Instagram post with a photo of a woman taking a picture in a dark space with flecks of colored light. Column with caption and comments are to the right.

Dancers face away from camera in a dance studio as they jump with their toes pointed. Title card reads, "Helen Schröder's Beach Birds."

Impressionistic painting of 3 female dancers in yellow dresses clustered together. Title bar reads, "Edgar Degas, Yellow Dancers in the Wings. 1874, 76."

Woman wearing glasses looks at camera as she speaks. She sits in front of crowded bookshelves.

Crowd gathers in front of Botticelli's painting, Primavera, which is framed in gold. Woman at the front of the group gestures toward the painting. Title card reads, "Uffizi Gallery. Florence, Italy."

Closeup of a line art painting. Rows of profiles outlined in black cascade across canvas.

Woman wearing glasses and a floral shirt looks at camera as she sits in front of crowded bookshelves.

Title card over black and white photo. Text reads, "'There's no way we sold our tires, because we didn't have any to sell. The only ones we had were on the Hudson and we drove off in them. I don't believe Lange was lying, I just think she had one story mixed up with another.' Troy Owens."

Woman in glasses looks directly at camera with her hands clasped in her lap. She sits in an armchair with crowded bookshelves in the background.

Closeup of Adam in Michelangelo's Adam and God fresco painting. Adam is reaching out and looking out over his outstretched hand. Caption. As Michelangelo progressed, he gained confidence.

Nate talks next to a sepia-tone image of 3 Japanese men in traditional Japanese robes looking at a paper and a drawing of 2 Japanese people in traditional Japanese robes. Caption. "But except for the most formal occasions."

Still image from: The Belly Button of Venus and Tortellini? Famous Italian Art & Culinary History!

Two men sit at a table painting mountain scenes on canvas in front of a wall of windows.

A person crushing pigment. Caption: of producing the pigment, grinding it up,

Black and white portrait images of 3 men wearing suit jackets.

Computer rendering of a Florentine church. Caption. The church of Santa Reparata was renovated and modified.

More than a dozen women, wearing flowing yellow pants and sparkling tops, perform in three coordinated columns on a golden stage in front of a flame-edged arched backdrop. The women on the left perch bend to the left with their arms over their heads, while the women on the right do the same in the other direction, and the women in the middle sit up with their arms up at different angles.

Dark stage with dancers dressed in lilac and blue garments in a circular formation, their long blue and lilac sleeves billowing high up in the air.

Line of women wearing white collared shirts underneath black dresses that are ornately adorned with bright neon threads, streamers, pompoms, and beads, and wearing hats decorated with silver and neon baubles and feathers.

Four women stand in a circle looking down to the ground at us. The women wear sloping gold helmet-crowns and festive dresses layered with shiny pink, gold, and green triangle shapes, green bodices, and gold collars.

Dancer wearing a crisp green outfit waves a wide pink fan in front of her body while another dancer out-of-frame does something similar.

Woman wearing a long-sleeved red dress with a full skirt spreads her arms wide with her fingers pointed back toward her, as she dances on a vast empty plain underneath a cloudy blue sky.

People wearing traditional garments that feature striped, colorful aprons, wide decorative belts, long billowing sleeves, and pointed headpieces, parade in a circle on the grass below a blue sky.

Senior woman smiles at a woman wearing a plaid shirt and walking down the hall.

Photo of Nate is on a blackboard background with a chalk billboard drawn around it. Many light gray spray paint cans are next to it. Caption. "He borrowed money and made a ton of spray-paint cans."

Closeup of a Renaissance painting of the Madonna wearing a pale red dress and a blue cape. She looks down and off to the side. Caption. Muir as narrator. One can easily look at Raphael's "Madonna of the Goldfinch."

Painting of a bearded man wearing a cravat. He looks past camera while holding a palette in one hand while painting on an easel with the other. Caption. Narrator. Manet's views on color, light, and brushwork.

Painting of 3 men with halos. 2 wear crowns and royal robes. Christ figure wears a robe and holds a small lamb. Caption. A late-14th century tempera work.

Painting of a man falling off a horse at the center of a chaotic battle. Caption. Represents an artistic triumph of the first order.

Neoclassical painting of 3 men in helmets each holding an arm straight out toward a man holding up swords with points down. Women and children slump over on a bench to the side. Caption. And David, of course, was immersed in the classical past.

Painting of a gray bearded man leaning forward in bed. A man, woman, and 2 children lean toward him at the bedside. Caption. Rembrandt was undoubtedly the giant of 17th century Dutch art.

Still image from: The Louvre Pyramid: Exclusive Access Inside the Louvre

Senior man wearing white cowboy hat, mouth slightly open.

Black and white photo of a statue of Renaissance sculptor, Donatello. Caption. Donatello's influence can be seen.

Nate holds a smartphone next to a black-and-white photo of a man using a polaroid camera. Underneath the photo is text that reads, "Nope! Cell phones not needed." Caption. "Let's dive a little deeper into the art of the selfie."

Wide shot of Piazza San Marco in Venice looking towards Saint Mark's Basilica and Campanile. Caption. But how did this fairy tale setting come into being.

Still image from: The Wedding at Cana: Largest Painting in Louvre!

Still image from: Understanding the Mona Lisa: Exclusive Access Inside the Louvre

Nate talks in front of a blackboard with text that reads, "Vincent number 1." There's an arrow going from the year 1853 to the year 1852. Caption. "They must have really liked the name."

Woman talks to Nate at an art museum. Vincent Van Gogh's painting, "Starry Night," is on the wall between them. Caption. "And we'll talk about him."

Gilded art image of a man walking along a stream wearing a mask over his face. Birds and tree branches fill the image. Caption. Were thinking about some of the same ideas.

Still image from: What's Beneath the Louvre? Medieval Dungeon & More!

Nate waves his hands as he talks with Edvard Munch's painting called "The Scream" enlarged behind him. Caption. "Yeah, you see yellows, yellow-oranges, and reds."

Nate talks in front of a blackboard background. A sign that reads, "No Guns Allowed," and a sepia-tone photo of a man appear on screen next to him. Caption. "Was trying to find non-violent ways."

Man wearing a black shirt speaks to us as he stands in front of a backdrop swirling with pink and purple paint. A question mark floats between a paint tray and tube beside him.

Digital illustration of a man gesturing toward a photo of the artist Basquiat as he sits casually on a stool with his head tilted to the side.

Still image from: Who Was Claude Monet? Fascinating Art History!

Black and white image of a modern abstract line drawing. Caption. Joan Mitchell's large canvases suggest landscapes.

Low side angle shot of an ancient Greek statue showing the face of Artemis. Caption. Artemis is 1 of the main ones.