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Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards – Flemish Art

Art History Lecture w/ Jason Arkles – Polykleitos

Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards – Five Portraits

Art History Lecture w/ Romer Kitching – Eight Paintings I Love

Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards – Pathos in Art

Art History Lecture w/ Jason Arkles – Ugolino and His Legacy

Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards – Massimo Stanzione

Art History Lecture w/ Issie Weir – Anne Vallayer-Coster & Mary Moser

Art History Lecture w/ Amanda Hilliam – Poetry of Drapery

Art History Lecture w/ Martin Foot – Objects of Inspiration

Art History Lecture w/ Jason Arkles – Laocoon and His Legacy

Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards – Looking at Art

The FAA’s Graduates in Residence of 2023-24

Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards – Unresolved Battles: The Academic Tradition

Art History Lecture w/ Jason Arkles – Brunelleschi vs. Ghiberti

Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards – Emma Ciardi vs. Canaletto

Art History Lecture w/ Jason Arkles – Bartolini vs. Dupré

Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards – Florence vs. Venice

Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards – Intimacy & Grandeur, Vermeer vs. Van Dyck

Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards – Landscape Painting, Outside & Inside

Art History Lecture w/ Jason Arkles – Harriet Hosmer

Art History Lecture w/ Issie Weir – The Female Nude

Art History Lecture w/ Jason Arkles – American Sculptors, European Training

Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards & Melissa Franklin Sanchez – Everyday Art

Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards – Frans Hals

Art History Lecture w/ Toby Wright – Théodule Ribot

Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards – Guido Reni, In Paint

Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards – Guido Reni, On Paper

Art History Lecture w/ Daniel Graves & Tom Richards – Rembrandt’s Self Portraits

Art History Lecture w/ Furio Rinaldi – San Francisco and Beyond

Art History Lecture w/ Merlini Storti Studio – Open Restoration on Caravaggio

International Alumni, Faculty, and Student Achievements 2022

Art History Lecture w/ Brian Booth Craig – Sculptural Inspiration Pt. 2

Art History Lecture w/ Brian Booth Craig – Sculptural Inspiration Pt. 1

Art History Lecture w/ Keith Christiansen – Painting from the Model, from Caravaggio to Velázquez

Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards – The Joy of Looking

Art History Lecture w/ Lynn Roberts – Framing Relief Sculptures

Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards – Northern Visions, Bosch & Breugel

Art History Lecture w/ Rose Byfleet – The depiction of Scent in Art

Art History Lecture w/ Jason Arkles – Bartolini

Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards – The Great Narrators

Art History Lecture w/ Mark Roberts – Henry James and John Singer Sargent in Florence

Art History Lecture w/ Terence Ward – Caravaggio in Naples

Art History Lecture w/ Jason Arkles – An Introduction to Donatello

Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards – Rome for free

Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards – Out and About: Parma

Art History Lecture w Tom Richards – Out and About: Brescia

Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards – Out and About: Bologna

Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards – Creativity, Dürer

Video Tour of the FAA Florence Campus

Florence Academy of Art Sweden

FAA Florence Summer Workshops

Master of Arts in Studio Art

The FAA Collective on Patreon!

Best of the FAA Collective – 1st Year on Patreon!

Six Week Intensive Course Part II

Sculpting the Portrait from Life

Youth Art Experience

Duende

Daniel Graves FAA Graduation Speech 2019

The Florence Academy of Art New Campus in Florence

Art Talk w/ Per Elof Nilsson Ricklund – The Craft of Art and Nature

Art Talk w/ Thor Larsen – Olsen-banden Commission

Art Talk w/ Mitch Shea – River God

The Florence Academy of Art, Life in the Studio

Continuum: The Art of Daniel Graves / “Prodigy” by Daniel Graves

Simona Dolci Premio Lorenzo il Magnifico 2018

Daniel Graves, The Florence Academy of Art, 2008

‘Forever Landscape’ – The Art of Nelson White

‘Before the Bath’ by Carla Paine

Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards – An Artist’s Life

Art History Lecture w/ Jason Arkles – Houdon’s Portraiture

Techniques w/ Eran Webber – Constructing the Eye

Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards – Disegno Today

Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards – Why Florence?

‘If you look closer’ by Melissa Franklin Sanchez

Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards – Portraits on Paper

Books w Poppy Field – Bronze 2012 Exhibition Catalogue

Art History Lecture w/ Jason Arkles – Always a Self-portrait

‘The Craft of Art and Nature’

Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards – Kit Kat Club

‘Painting 365 Sunrises’ a project by Daniela Astone

‘Painting 365 Sunrises’ a project by Daniela Astone

Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards – Looking at Art 101

‘La Marionetta’ by Robert Bodem

Tools w/ Jana Büttner – Create your own Loop Tool

‘A Day at the Foundry’ w/ Mitch Shea

A Day at the Foundry w/ Mitch Shea

‘Hermits’ by Zacheriah Kramer

Tanvi Pathare Painting for Dior

‘Painting between Giants: Mer de Glace’ w/ Toby Wright

Toby Wright – Painting between Giants, Part III: Pushing Boundaries

Toby Wright – Painting between Giants – Part II: Sargent’s Ghost

Toby Wright – Painting between Giants, Part I: Mer de Glace

Materials w/ Hannah Sutton – Make your own Canvas: Preparing Gesso Emulsion

Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards – Rubens, Sorolla: Twin Spirits?

Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards – Getting Paid: Great Patrons

Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards – On Display: Pedestals, Niches, etc.

Books w/ Dasha Belokrylova – Seeing Ourselves: Women’s Self-Portraits

Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards – Landscape Pt. 3 – Real vs Ideal

Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards – Landscape Pt. 2 – Real vs Ideal

Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards – Landscape Pt. 1 – Symbols vs. Facts

Tools w/ Jana Büttner – Sculpture Tools

Art Talk w/ Thor Larsen – ‘Olsen-banden’ Commission

‘Olsen-banden Commission’

Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards & Ramiro Sanchez – Velázquez Pt. 3 – Portrait – Vanity vs Vulnerability

Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards – Velázquez Pt. 2 – 19th Century Legacy

Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards – Velázquez Pt. 1 – Origins

Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards – The Nude Pt. 3 – Desire

Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards – The Nude Pt. 2 – Energy

Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards – The Nude Pt. 1 – Pathos

Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards – Caravaggio Pt. 3 – Symbols and Storytelling

Art History 101 w/ Tom Richards

Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards – Caravaggio Pt. 2 – Simplicity and Force

Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards – Caravaggio Pt. 1 – Introduction

Books w/ Toby Neve – The Practice and Science of Drawing

Art History Lecture w/ Lisa Corsi – Florence in the 19th Century

Art History Lecture w/ Lisa Corsi – Michelangelo and Others

Lecture w/ Tom Richards, Tanvi Pathare, Vitaliy Shtanko, Angel Ramiro Sanchez and Nicholas Chaundy – Inside the Studio

Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards – Sculpture in Rome

Art History Lecture w/ Lisa Corsi – The Uffizi Gallery

Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards – What is Drawing?

Techniques w/ Marco Franco – Color Study

The FAA Collective – Bloopers!

Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards – Sculpture in Florence

Our First Year on Patreon!

Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards – Hands

Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards – Great Art in Black & White

Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards – Art History 101 Pt. 2

Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards – Art History 101 Pt. 1

The Process w/ Nicholas Chaundy – Self Portrait

Techniques w/ Tanvi Pathare – Painting Fabric Pt.2

Techniques w/ Tanvi Pathare – Painting Fabric Pt. 1

Techniques w/ Per Elof Nilsson Ricklund – Palette Fundamentals

Techniques w/ Vitaliy Shtanko – Painting Gold

Techniques w/ Eran Webber – Constructing the Mouth

Art Talk w/ Eric J. Drummond – Graduating from Student to Artist

Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards – Portraiture Pt. 2

Community – FAA Florence

Art Talk w/ Mitch Shea – River God

Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards – Portraiture Pt. 1

Art History Lecture w/ Erica Arcudi – Designing the Viewer’s Experience

The Process w/ Dasha Belokrylova – Drawing a Portrait with Wood Burning

The Process w/ Daniel Graves – Salomé’s Rue

Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards – Painter’s Studio

Art History Lecture w/ Ramiro Sanchez & Tom Richards – El Greco

Art Talk II w/ Per Elof Nilsson Ricklund – Dreaming on a Large Scale

Art History Lecture w/ Jason Arkles – Likeness in Sculpture

Art History Lecture w/ Jason Arkles – Donatello

Art History Lecture w/ Adam Miller – Classical Composition

Techniques w/ Toby Neve – Grinding Lead White by Hand

The Process w/ Vitaliy Shtanko – Underpainting Pt.3

Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards – Velázquez

Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards – Naples, Love and Mercy Pt.2

The Process w/ Vitaliy Shtanko – Underpainting Pt.2

Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards – Naples, Love and Mercy Pt.1

Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards – Portraits & Portraiture

The Process w/ Vitaliy Shtanko – Underpainting Pt.1

Art History Lecture w/ Erica Arcudi – Classical Sculpture

Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards – Academic Art

Art History Lecture w/ Maureen Hyde – Classic American Illustrators

Art Talk w/ Daniel Graves – Mixing your Palette to Tell a Story

Faculty lecture with Tom Richards, Vaidas Varpucanskis and Erica Arcudi

Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards – Sorolla

Techniques w/ Thor Larsen – Creating a Plaster Cast

Art Talk w/ Per Elof Nilsson Ricklund – The Craft of Art and Nature

Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards & Fabio Perino – 19th Century Italian Art

Art History Lecture w/ Ramiro Sanchez & Tom Richards – Art & Music

5 (more) Portraits. (Audio Lecture)

Titian (Audio Lecture)

Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards – The Lost Titian

Peter Trippi on Alma Tadema (Audio Lecture)

Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards – Florence and Surroundings

Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards & Daniel Graves – Jusepe de Ribera

Lecture w/ Daniel Graves – Art and The Academy, Continuum

Portraits

Leonardo by Roberta Bartoli

Public Monuments by Jason Arkles Orsanmichele

Faculty Lecture

Still-life

In Florence

Art and the academy

Drawing

Lecture with Thomas Richards

Anki Lecture and Per Olaf

Quiz

Faculty Lecture

Florentine treasure hunt

Sargent

Summer Scholarship Contest 2017

Beauty via Reynolds

Impressions via Reynolds

Nature via Reynolds

Faculty Lecture

Joshua Reynolds Inspirations

Joshua Reynolds

Michelangelo â Man and Myth by Jason Arkles

Raphael

Rembrandt, Lecture 2

Rembrandt, Lecture 1

American Portraits, a Thanksgiving Lecture

Il Bargello: looking at sculpture and its display with Paola DâAgostino. Direttore del Museo Naizonale del Bargello

Fra Angelico with Dr. Carl Strehlke

Faculty Lecture

Caravaggio, 5 Paintings. Life podcast with Thomas Richards and guest lecturer Terence Ward

Caravaggio, 5 Paintings. With guest lecturer Terence Ward. Fall 2016

The Academic Tradition. Lecture podcast with Thomas Richards

The Academic Tradition. Fall 2016

Landscape

Rubens with Tom Richards

20th Art History Quiz

Mrs Neve "Frames" (Artists & The Frame)

Faculty Lecture

Jewel on the hill

Painting Winter

Gothic

Faculty Lecture

A real renaissance man

Looking at pictures

Jason Arkles, Donatello

Who we are, where we come from

Anki Graves on Zorn

Art History Quiz

Leonardo da Vinci, drawings

Brunelleschi, shape design. Spring term

Pietro Aretino

Still-life

Portraits of places

The Portrait Bust: An Overview by Jason Arkles

Self-portraits Winter 2015

Holland vs. Flanders

Conflict, The Art of War in 3D by Jason Arkles

Composition Lecture 2 by Janne Jaaskelainen

Composition Lecture 1 by Janne Jaaskelainen

Sculpture in Florence by Jason Arkles

Conflict, the art of war in 2D. Fall 2014

Sculpture in Florence by Jason Arkles

Florence vs. Venice. Fall 2014

Drawing. Fall 2014

The Academic Tradition. Fall 2014

Guest speaker – Tom Richards – ‘Landscape Painting: Visions and Conventions

Velasquez

Titian

The Visual Impression

El Duende

Turner

Death, War and Goya

Towards Realism; Several Times Over

The Origins of Art

More Art of the American 19th Century

Guest Lecture, John Davis; The Academic Tradition in Late 19th Century American Painting

Principal Painting Instructor, Daniela Astone, has been accepted into the 2013 National Gallery BP Portrait Competition

Tatyana Kulida has been awarded the John F. and Anna Lee Stacey Scholarship.

Animals in art

WORKSHOP OPEN TO FAA STUDENTS with Steven Assael

Sightsize Portrature

Alicia Ponzioâs portrait of Irving is a finalist in three competitions

Student Artwork, Advanced Painting Program â Winter 2013

Student Artwork, Advanced Drawing â Beginning Painting Program â Winter 2013

THE FLORENCE ACADEMY OF ART SUMMER SCHOLARSHIP CONTEST

Composition Club

Serov and Repin

Great Drawing

Etching Lecture with Daniel Graves

Masterpieces of the Louvre

Competitions, grant & career resources

Italian 19th century

A brief history of still life painting

Intro to myself and the years lectures

Charles Bargue

Abram Arkhipov

Thomas Anshutz

Alfred Agache

Abbott Handerson Thayer

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema and Ramiro Sanchez

Alexandre Cabanel

Gustave Boulanger

Annigoni

Alma-Tadema

LÃ©on Bonnat

Dagnan-Bouveret

Academic Paintings

Paul Richer as an anatomist and sculptor

Miscellaneous artworks 7

Miscellaneous artworks 6

Miscellaneous artworks 5

Miscellaneous artworks 4

Miscellaneous artworks 3

Miscellaneous artworks 2

Miscellaneous artworks

Early Ecole des Beaux Arts Nudes

Spanish 19th century academic work

Ecole des beaux arts cast drawings

Ecole des beaux arts engarvings

Miscellaneous french 19th century artworks

Gustav Klimt academic drawings

Ecole des beaux arts nudes pt. 3

Ecole des beaux arts nudes pt. 2

The Polish 19th Century and Simona Dolci

Alphonse Mucha and the “Slav Epic”. Maureen Hyde

The Polish 19th Century and Jordan Sokol

Ecole des beaux arts nudes pt. 1

Academic Figure

Sculpture II and Robert Bodem

Academic work

Peasantry in Russia Art (with Sofia Zuluaga)

Adolf Hiremy-Hirschl

Dagnan-Bouveret

Emile Friant

Sculpture 1

Bastien Lepage

Open Q&A with Daniel Graves

Naturalism pt. 4

Naturalism pt. 3

Naturalism Pt. 2

Naturalism pt. 1

Academic Paintings

Paul Richer as an anatomist and sculptor

Website for art books

Manet

Medicine and Art

WWII and Art

Academic Figure

Music in Art (part 7)

Music in Art (part 6)

Music in Art (part 5)

Music in Art (part 4)

Music in Art (part 3)

Music in Art (part 2)

Music in Art (part 1)

David and Ingres

The French Rococo

Landscape Painting then and now

Important Art related sights in Florence and trimester preview

Controlling the Creative Process: A painter’s guide by Justin Hess

Antonio Mancini (1852â1930)

Venice II (Favretto, Tito, Luigi Nono)

Venice I (Tiepolo, Titian, Veronese)

Turner

Drawing

Meissonier

Rubens vs. Rembrandt

The Tradition of Sight-Size Portraiture

Introduction to this Year’s Lectures by Judson Monroe. 2011

The Florence Academy of Art Recommended Reading List

Introductions to Perspective for Artists by Richard Payne

American Illustrators

Polish, Hungarian and Russian 19th Century Painters

The Orientalists

Italian Renaissance: Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael

Die Berliner Bildhauerschule by Julis Dufek

19th Century Scandinavian Female Painters by Anki Eriksson Graves Spring 2011

Naturalistic Sculpture from Jules Dalou to The Florence Academy of Art Spring 2011

19th C. Italian Sculpture by Sean Forester Spring 2011

Alan Lawson about Beauty Spring 2011

Daniel Graves Early vs. Late Spring 2011

Lecture: Beauty, Teleology, and Taste by Alan Lawson

Vermeer Winter 2011

Rembrandt Winter 2011

Velazquez Winter 2011

Rubens and Van Dyck Winter 2011

Ribera Winter 2011

Caravaggio Winter 2011

Titian Winter 2011

Chrysta’s Lecture on Degas Winter 2011

Nude Study by Daniel Graves

Introduction to Renaissance Florence

Sculpture, Part II Fall 2010

Sculpture Fall 2010

Introduction to Sight Size Portraiture Fall 2010

Degas, Part I Fall 2010

Degas, Part II Fall 2010

Mario Fortuny and Ramon Casas, 19th Century Spanish Painters Fall 2010

Landscape Painting, Part II Fall 2010

Portraiture, Part II Fall 2010

Landscape Painting, Part I Fall 2010

Victorian Painting, lecture by Peter Trippi, Fall 2010

Portraiture, Part I Fall 2010

The Boston School Fall 2010

Still Life Painting Fall 2010

The Human Figure in Art Fall 2010

Pietro Annigoni and Andrew Wyeth Spring 2010

Women Painters in the 19th Century Spring 2010

Leon Bonnat and the Basque Painters, lecture by Zoe Bray, Spring 2010

Italian 19th Painting at the Pitti Palace, lecture by Judson Monroe, Spring 2010

Finish 19th Century Painting Winter 2010

Russian 19th Century Drawing & Painting Winter 2010

The Gospels in Art Winter 2010

Peder Severin Kroyert Winter 2010

The Old Testament in Art Winter 2010

British Naturalists â the Glasgow Boys Winter 2010

The Greek Myth in Art Winter 2010

Drawing and Composition, lecture Winter 2010

Jules Bastien Lepage Fall 2009

John William Waterhouse Fall 2009

Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida Fall 2009

Anders Leonard Zorn Fall 2009

John Singer Sargent Fall 2009

Sculpture from Ancient Greece to Rodin Fall 2009

Sight Size in Portraiture Fall 2009

Drawing and Painting the Figure Fall 2009

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