Narrative Art History

Art from 500 years ago can make modern people see differently. Studying art teaches us not only history but also invaluable analytical skills critical to so many fields today. Art makes you empathize and examine. Perhaps most importantly, it fosters curiosity and connection. It introduces you to the diversity of thinking, culture, and iconography, of ways of representation, of social values. That’s why we study art history: to see the power and potential of a work of art and to understand the meaning a work of art can have.

This series is intended to showcase those meanings and elucidate them. And I hope that in looking at these great works of art you can find your own meaning in them and in art history.

Written, produced, and presented by Weili Jin as an initiative of The Close Looking Project

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