Sometimes it happens: you have to miss class. In addition to using the readings and study-guides to help stay caught up, I strongly recommend getting notes from a classmate, since the exams are based on the way we're covering the material in class. However, I've also put together a collection of videos and occasional short essays that can help if you have no other options or if your friend's notes are incomplete. Most of the videos and essays below are from a reputable online art history site called smarthistory.org, which has been created by PhD-credentialed art historians (including some essays by me). Again, these are not a substitute for coming to class and taking good notes since they in many cases don't cover all the works and concepts that will be on the exam, but they'll help you bridge a gap in your notes or provide you with some basic understanding of the material. As always, if you have questions, don't hesitate to get in touch.
The Early Italian Renaissance
https://smarthistory.org/how-to-recognize-italian-renaissance-art/
https://smarthistory.org/giotto-arena-scrovegni-chapel-part-3-of-4/
https://smarthistory.org/contrapposto-2/
https://smarthistory.org/donatello-david/
https://smarthistory.org/how-one-point-linear-perspective-works/
https://smarthistory.org/masaccio-the-tribute-money-in-the-brancacci-chapel/
https://smarthistory.org/masaccio-expulsion-of-adam-and-eve-from-eden/
https://smarthistory.org/perugino-christ-giving-the-keys-of-the-kingdom-to-st-peter/
The Northern Renaissance
https://smarthistory.org/jan-van-eyck-the-arnolfini-portrait/
https://smarthistory.org/robert-campin-merode-altarpiece/
https://smarthistory.org/albrecht-durers-woodcuts-and-engravings/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZnQF-XjWfs (on Durer's Adam and Eve)
The High Renaissance
https://smarthistory.org/leonardo-anatomist/
https://smarthistory.org/leonardo-mona-lisa/
https://smarthistory.org/leonardo-last-supper/
https://smarthistory.org/michelangelo-david/
https://smarthistory.org/michelangelo-ceiling-of-the-sistine-chapel/
https://smarthistory.org/raphael-school-of-athens/
The Late Renaissance
https://smarthistory.org/protestant-reformation-part-1-of-4/
https://smarthistory.org/protestant-reformation-part-2-of-4/
https://smarthistory.org/protestant-reformation-part-3-of-4/
https://smarthistory.org/jacopo-pontormo-entombment-or-deposition-from-the-cross/
https://smarthistory.org/parmigianino-madonna-of-the-long-neck/
https://smarthistory.org/michelangelo-slaves/
https://smarthistory.org/michelangelo-last-judgment/
The Italian Baroque
https://smarthistory.org/how-to-recognize-baroque-art/
https://smarthistory.org/protestant-reformation-part-4-of-4/
https://smarthistory.org/bernini-david-2/
https://smarthistory.org/bernini-ecstasy-of-st-teresa/
https://smarthistory.org/caravaggio-the-supper-at-emmaus/
https://smarthistory.org/gentileschi-judith-slaying-holofernes/
The Dutch Baroque
https://smarthistory.org/iconoclasm-netherlands/
https://smarthistory.org/saenredam-interior-of-saint-bavo-haarlem/
https://smarthistory.org/ruisdael-view-of-haarlem/
https://smarthistory.org/kalf-ewer/
The French Baroque and Rococo
https://smarthistory.org/rubens-the-presentation-of-the-portrait-of-marie-de-medici/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=194CDlsFpQA (on Versailles palace)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdyGNp6Ew5g (on Versailles gardens)
https://smarthistory.org/antoine-watteau-pilgrimage-to-cythera/
https://smarthistory.org/jean-honore-fragonard-the-swing/
https://smarthistory.org/jean-honore-fragonard-the-progress-of-love-the-meeting/
Classicism
https://smarthistory.org/jacques-louis-david-oath-of-the-horatii/
https://smarthistory.org/jacques-louis-david-the-lictors-returning-to-brutus-the-bodies-of-his-sons/
https://smarthistory.org/angelica-kauffmann-cornelia-pointing-to-her-children-as-her-treasures/
Romanticism
https://smarthistory.org/goya-third-of-may-1808/
https://smarthistory.org/goya-saturn-devouring-one-of-his-sons/
https://smarthistory.org/theodore-gericault-raft-of-the-medusa/
https://smarthistory.org/delacroix-the-death-of-sardanapalus/
https://smarthistory.org/j-m-w-turner-slave-ship/
Realism
https://smarthistory.org/daumier-rue-transnonain/
https://smarthistory.org/gustave-courbet-a-burial-at-ornans/
https://smarthistory.org/millet-the-gleaners/
Landscape Painting
https://smarthistory.org/constable-and-the-english-landscape/
https://smarthistory.org/hay-wain/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvzG_p_sdOQ (Burke on the sublime, just the first 3 mins)
https://smarthistory.org/friedrich-monk-by-the-sea/
https://smarthistory.org/cole-the-oxbow/
https://smarthistory.org/leutze-manifest-destiny/
Academic art and Manet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZR06JJWaJM (on the nude in Western art)
https://smarthistory.org/painting-colonial-culture-ingress-la-grande-odalisque
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHKFK6_pepo (on Manet's Olympia)
https://smarthistory.org/edouard-manet-olympia/
https://smarthistory.org/edouard-manet-le-dejeuner-sur-lherbe-luncheon-on-the-grass/
Impressionism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tw51Eh9vcw (The Case for Impressionism)
https://smarthistory.org/impressionist-color/
https://smarthistory.org/renoir-swing/
https://smarthistory.org/auguste-renoir-moulin-de-la-galette/
https://smarthistory.org/claude-monet-poplars/
https://smarthistory.org/edgar-degas-the-dance-class/
https://smarthistory.org/mary-cassatt-in-the-loge/
Symbolism
https://smarthistory.org/paul-gauguin-vision-after-the-sermon-or-jacob-wrestling-with-the-angel/
https://smarthistory.org/primitivism-and-modern-art/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKNAZr0QJzs (on Van Gogh's Night Cafe)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz908BHg55Y (on Van Gogh's Starry Night)
Picasso and Cubism
https://smarthistory.org/pablo-picasso-les-demoiselles-davignon/
https://smarthistory.org/primitivism-and-modern-art/
https://smarthistory.org/picasso-guitar/
https://smarthistory.org/cubism-and-multiple-perspectives/
https://smarthistory.org/picasso-still-life-with-chair-caning/
Expressionism
https://smarthistory.org/expression-modern-art/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxP5e_ghWfM (on Munch, The Scream)
https://smarthistory.org/ernst-ludwig-kirchner-street-berlin/
https://smarthistory.org/kandinsky-improvisation-28-second-version/
https://smarthistory.org/kandinsky-apocalypse-abstraction/
Dada and Surrealism
https://smarthistory.org/dada-manifesto/
https://smarthistory.org/marcel-duchamp-fountain/
https://smarthistory.org/hannah-hoch-cut-kitchen-knife-dada-weimar-beer-belly-germany/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a6cw3Lgw94 (on Max Ernst part 1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ffo8NaqzEQc (on Max Ernst part 2)
https://smarthistory.org/surrealist-techniques-subversive-realism/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqlTRZi-e10 (Dali Persistence of Memory)
Abstract Expressionism
https://smarthistory.org/the-case-for-jackson-pollock/
https://smarthistory.org/the-painting-techniques-of-jackson-pollock/
https://smarthistory.org/meaning-abstraction/
https://smarthistory.org/frankenthaler-sea/
https://smarthistory.org/the-case-for-mark-rothko/
Johns, Rauschenberg and Pop Art
https://smarthistory.org/robert-rauschenberg-bed/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG6M1uo2PVY (on Lichtenstein's Whaam!)
https://smarthistory.org/case-for-andy-warhol/
https://smarthistory.org/warhol-gold-marilyn-monroe/
Feminism and activist art
https://smarthistory.org/art-gender/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8NrRUKG4QI (Womanhouse)
https://smarthistory.org/judy-chicago-the-dinner-party/
https://smarthistory.org/barbara-kruger-untitled-your-gaze-hits-side-face/
https://smarthistory.org/cindy-sherman-untitled-film-still-21/
if you miss class
