Rick Steves.... My wife & I really love and truly appreciate the dedication to the travel programs, to these art history series, and its not only the passion and enthusiasm with details putting into each of these. I feel it's honorable how you have taken care of all your staff & employees during this pandemic, that truly says something about your character and how you feel about relationships when traveling! Back in college after getting out of the Navy ages ago,.I enrolled in 2 incredible Art History classes and what an experience. Lord willing, we might somehow be able to travel to Italy one of these years.
What Mr Steves tells here is gold, I've been living in Europe for 45 years, he tells history much better than in many schools here. Thx I love you video’s.
I am italian, I suffer from campanilismo 41:24 I can travel a lot around the world, but I always come back because I miss the sound of my town's bell tower ahahahahha
Rick, you're amazing. Love your work. Love your demeanor. Love your approach. Love your simplicity and love of life and what it brings with it, all good, bad or otherwise. God Bless you and be with you!
Thanks a lot for the great lecture Steve! This really compliments your Art History 101 book, which was a very enjoyable and engaging read! Keep them coming!
Very informative and fun! Rick Steves 's travel videos are the best I have ever watched. His speech is articulating, concise and easy to undertand. They have enhanced my European travel experiences particularly my appreciation for European Arts, history cultures. I am deeply grateful to him for making such videos available to the general public . Thank you so much. Will
i saw people commenting that this is biased....can anyone suggest a great concised book (ebook to be exact) on medieval history that is objective and easy to understand for amateurs like me? i am watching this cos i'm interested in learning this but apparently people said it's not good enough or entirely true :(
Chiekh anta diop: civilisation or barbarism Ivan van sertima: golden age of the Moors.. maybe good start. Only advice would be to try and negotiate past terms like black, negro, african American etc. they are all misnoners used to confuse and create the illusion we where either slaves or different people from each other all together.. dividing nations/people with words simply put.i.e Nouns are used in language all over the world to identify people places or and object/thing.. adjectives are not used(like black yellow etc)in language globally to denote a person place or object because adjectives are descriptive words not the actual objects thing or person itself. So black is just a crayon colour like Chinese people are not yellow man or yellow woman they are identified by their nationality and not past slave terms or tags brands etc. Find your correct Noun to help read past the hijacked terms which are all really legal slave codes we in the most part agreed to. you may learn a good lesson in this area also... Good luck if you do read these books thats all from me. Peace nobel...
You don’t have to read books, there’s better RUclips videos and websites. Start with sources on Wikipedia and then branch out on topics that are interesting to you.
Two books that I found broadened my perspective: Lost to the West by Lars Brownworth, and Eastern Europe! by Tomek Jankowski. The first traces the history of the Byzantine Empire, while the second delivers an overview of everything Europe east of the Elbe. Both are available as ebooks, though I'd find the Jankowski hard to read without the ability to flip back/stop and study maps/etc.
You may have already looked this up by now, but in Italian, the "gi" is pronounced as a "j" in English. So, Giotto would be pronounced as Joht-toh, if that makes sense.
During this period the people did not refer to the era as Middle Ages. They considered themselves Modern and thought that , due to invasions, and plagues, that they were probably living at the approach of the end of days, apocalypse.
Our host unfortunately leaves it ambiguous when he says people anticipated “something ahead”. If he’s suggesting they were sitting on their hands waiting for the Renaissance, there’s nothing to support that. Contemporary through early-Renaissance scholars (e.g., St. Augustine early on, Petrarch and Erasmus later) thought of it as a between time, but as you say @gavinreid8351 , it was between the time of Christ and His return.
Why in all maps that concern to medieval or ancient period above Armenia is empty area where the Georgia is today? There was kingdom of Iberia than ( and also Kholkheti kingdom which is known its Golden Fleece (that is Knowledge )that Aeëtes took to Greece. It was the hegemonic Kingdom under which Armenia was mainly during whole history until the late period ( I mean at 2:51 map) . Cause of bad PR or lack of information ?
I just watched this Video that was launched years ago. I can only use some of symbols to express my real appreciation and thanks to Mr. Rick Steves🥰🥰🥰🌺🌺🌺👍👍👍❣️❣️❣️🎊🎊🎊💝💝💝💯💯💯💥💥💥🏆🏆🏆💘💘💘🙏🙏🙏
I like Rick's shows and talks - have enjoyed them for two decades or more, but his utter ignorance of the Crusades and its cause and effect is astounding. This is further compounded by his ignorance of Islam, its origins and history.
Completely agree on the point...but he isn't alone. I have many exchanges with Catholics & Christians, friends & family who talk of the dark chapter of the evil, bloody Crusades. Like Rick said- rape, pillage & plunder - is how the Crusades are characterised. A false characterisation. Also "The Muslim faith traveled like wildfire"... more accurately by the sword. The willful blindness is amazing to me- especially in our time when we are living through the resurgence of Islam.
It is impossible to cover every simple topic of European art history, he did try to mention some aspect of northern art when he spoke about the Gothic which originated in a more central European - Northern context.
Um, excuse you, Scandinavian land is highly fertile and most of the people during the viking era were actually engaged in farming. Not even 5 minutes in and I'm leaving, because clearly this guy has no clue what he's talking about.
Mr. Steves' explanation of the directional forces on Romanesque vs Gothic arches is completely backward. But, it's fun to make 13 tourists do stuff in public, so he's got *that* going for him!
amsterdamsel Im studying church history. I stopped watching this soon as he went into Church bashing mode. I believe much history is not taught in propper context. Sort of a biased retelling of Edward gibbon's biased "The Fall Of The Roman Empire. I am striving to learn real history not the anti authoritarian baby boomer accepted history. BS stuff like the example Christians burned down the library of Alexandria.
Rick Steves.... My wife & I really love and truly appreciate the dedication to the travel programs, to these art history series, and its not only the passion and enthusiasm with details putting into each of these. I feel it's honorable how you have taken care of all your staff & employees during this pandemic, that truly says something about your character and how you feel about relationships when traveling! Back in college after getting out of the Navy ages ago,.I enrolled in 2 incredible Art History classes and what an experience. Lord willing, we might somehow be able to travel to Italy one of these years.
What Mr Steves tells here is gold, I've been living in Europe for 45 years, he tells history much better than in many schools here. Thx I love you video’s.
Perhaps because Rick is not an academic, this is a fantastic lecture! Wow. I say that as a former lecturer! Loved this.
thanks for tapping my funny bone:)
Totally agree, it's relatable and for regular people.
This is a fascinating view of history told by the most skilled, congenial, and experienced of all lecturers.
This 1hr lecture was more informative than my entirety of high school history class. The youth today could benefit from more of these type of videos.
Yes but the youth are shiteaters they benefit mostly from tictoc
I am italian, I suffer from campanilismo 41:24
I can travel a lot around the world, but I always come back because I miss the sound of my town's bell tower ahahahahha
Rick, you're amazing. Love your work. Love your demeanor. Love your approach. Love your simplicity and love of life and what it brings with it, all good, bad or otherwise. God Bless you and be with you!
L of
This is the best summary lecture of Medieval art I've ever seen. Amazing job Rick!
Fascinating. Entertaining. Really held my attention. Fun
Love this series! Much better than my college art history courses. I am watching the entire series.
This is so educational. Thank you so much . Great insights into all the sculptures, paintings we see in Europe's churches , museums etc.
Thanks a lot for the great lecture Steve! This really compliments your Art History 101 book, which was a very enjoyable and engaging read! Keep them coming!
Outstanding! It’s the framework of knowledge anyone needs to remember in a nutshell. I have to admit that Americans have the gift of the synthesis.
History is so boring but learning history with Rick Steves is so much fun. Thank you!!!
Wonderfully informed and brought the middle ages comprehensively to life!
Thank you dear Rick Steves!
Thanks for this gem! I absolutely loved it
Very informative and fun! Rick Steves 's travel videos are the best I have ever watched. His speech is articulating, concise and easy to undertand. They have enhanced my European travel experiences particularly my appreciation for European Arts, history cultures. I am deeply grateful to him for making such videos available to the general public . Thank you so much. Will
1:06:05 did you confused the Byzantine empire with the Ottoman?
I came here because of my art subject in school😂 but I found it Fascinating❤️
Fantastic !!! I enjoyed every minute of it. Thank you Rick !!!
Rick, Thank you for sharing your vast knowledge and the awesome talk.
Omg Rick well done may god bless your heart and may god bless everyone else
Great video, I enjoyed it very much!
Hey there...I'm about to get my Bachelor degree and awaiting my exams, this is what I was looking for instead of papers. Thank you
What a beautiful topic!
Medieval Art Rick thank# for your views on this session.
Great work Rick Steve
Medieval history a short prix..Thanks Rick.great reviewthanks
High middle,e ahead was a great church artitecture.Th Rick.great discussion..
Nice presentation Rick. But little mistake: Charlemagne was not crown in Paris but in Rome
Yes.. I guessed Rick was thinking about Napoleon.
Brilliant Your a Rock Star time for a comeback!
Once over lightly!
Great discussion.on church design thanks Rick
wonderful! Thank you
Very Good!
And great videos Rick
This was amazing!
i saw people commenting that this is biased....can anyone suggest a great concised book (ebook to be exact) on medieval history that is objective and easy to understand for amateurs like me? i am watching this cos i'm interested in learning this but apparently people said it's not good enough or entirely true :(
Echa Commenting so I get a notification as well
Chiekh anta diop: civilisation or barbarism
Ivan van sertima: golden age of the Moors.. maybe good start.
Only advice would be to try and negotiate past terms like black, negro, african American etc. they are all misnoners used to confuse and create the illusion we where either slaves or different people from each other all together.. dividing nations/people with words simply put.i.e Nouns are used in language all over the world to identify people places or and object/thing.. adjectives are not used(like black yellow etc)in language globally to denote a person place or object because adjectives are descriptive words not the actual objects thing or person itself. So black is just a crayon colour like Chinese people are not yellow man or yellow woman they are identified by their nationality and not past slave terms or tags brands etc.
Find your correct Noun to help read past the hijacked terms which are all really legal slave codes we in the most part agreed to. you may learn a good lesson in this area also...
Good luck if you do read these books thats all from me.
Peace nobel...
You don’t have to read books, there’s better RUclips videos and websites. Start with sources on Wikipedia and then branch out on topics that are interesting to you.
Two books that I found broadened my perspective: Lost to the West by Lars Brownworth, and Eastern Europe! by Tomek Jankowski. The first traces the history of the Byzantine Empire, while the second delivers an overview of everything Europe east of the Elbe. Both are available as ebooks, though I'd find the Jankowski hard to read without the ability to flip back/stop and study maps/etc.
The lecture is super interesting. And I will definitely show it to my students....but not knowi g how to pronounce Giotto!
You may have already looked this up by now, but in Italian, the "gi" is pronounced as a "j" in English. So, Giotto would be pronounced as Joht-toh, if that makes sense.
some of the History is not always correct, and it seems to be more of a history lesson rather than about art, but so far its enjoyable.
Yes, very little about art.
@@gavinreid8351 I'm 20 minutes in and probably going to turn it off soon...I was searching for art history when this came up
@@lordhelmit1499 Right
Cool!
I know these melodies.♥️♥️
As much as I enjoyed the lecture, but it felt like a history class than art!!
i think its the right way to explain art. you cant understand art without understanding history, politics, economics etc...
As an art major, its basically all history.
that's why it's called art history
Sorry, but Charlesmagne was never crowned in Paris - in ROM!
Correction：the coronation of Charlemagne took place at Rome, not Paris.
Actually it was Achen in Germany.
Sherab Nyima He was crowned in Rome on 25 December 800 by Pope Leo III.
This guy is great
Brilliant 👏
During this period the people did not refer to the era as Middle Ages. They considered themselves Modern and thought that , due to invasions, and plagues, that they were probably living at the approach of the end of days, apocalypse.
Our host unfortunately leaves it ambiguous when he says people anticipated “something ahead”. If he’s suggesting they were sitting on their hands waiting for the Renaissance, there’s nothing to support that. Contemporary through early-Renaissance scholars (e.g., St. Augustine early on, Petrarch and Erasmus later) thought of it as a between time, but as you say @gavinreid8351 , it was between the time of Christ and His return.
Watching for a college class..
6:47 is it explained why Jesus was depicted without a beard first? That’s interesting
Is there a reason he should have had a beard?
@@Name-ib7wu no
Do classical Roman and Greek art. And prehistoric art.
15:21 "Don't mess with Dennis"
Why in all maps that concern to medieval or ancient period above Armenia is empty area where the Georgia is today? There was kingdom of Iberia than ( and also Kholkheti kingdom which is known its Golden Fleece (that is Knowledge )that Aeëtes took to Greece. It was the hegemonic Kingdom under which Armenia was mainly during whole history until the late period ( I mean at 2:51 map) . Cause of bad PR or lack of information ?
I wish Rick taught my History of Architecture class in Uni..
Is it okay if I use your video for my report in Art History I?
Hi, this is Barb in Rick's office -- I handle permissions for use of our videos. I'll get back to you in a PM soon!
:D
Viljem osvajalec, Normandija.♥️♥️
Indeed, very true!♥️♥️♥️
Thank you so much for this dr i appreciate it
Very true!
Yes!♥️♥️
it's very exagerated - for getting students' attention?
True!
Cool beans❤
Excellent, I always liked Rick Steves but too many specifics are missing. We need more names of art pieces, places, dates all throughout.
It was an hour long lecture. If you were looking for something more comprehensive, you came to the wrong place.
In 1000 years I’d love to know what they call this time, not sure we’re objective enough to see it yet
Sh*t show
I Love the Saint Francis of Assisi.♥️♥️♥️♥️
Rhenne-southern germany.🌹♥️♥️❤️♥️♥️
Archangael Michael.♥️♥️
Second council of Nicaea 787........?
Thank you very much...
do you know that there is castilla y leon and aragon, and another country that would never be Spain, Portugal????? be accurate!
Tell when they started to paint the pictures of God and the saints white
Padua.♥️♥️🌹♥️
I just watched this Video that was launched years ago. I can only use some of symbols to express my real appreciation and thanks to Mr. Rick Steves🥰🥰🥰🌺🌺🌺👍👍👍❣️❣️❣️🎊🎊🎊💝💝💝💯💯💯💥💥💥🏆🏆🏆💘💘💘🙏🙏🙏
I like Rick's shows and talks - have enjoyed them for two decades or more, but his utter ignorance of the Crusades and its cause and effect is astounding. This is further compounded by his ignorance of Islam, its origins and history.
Completely agree on the point...but he isn't alone. I have many exchanges with Catholics & Christians, friends & family who talk of the dark chapter of the evil, bloody Crusades. Like Rick said- rape, pillage & plunder - is how the Crusades are characterised. A false characterisation. Also "The Muslim faith traveled like wildfire"... more accurately by the sword. The willful blindness is amazing to me- especially in our time when we are living through the resurgence of Islam.
Crusades were completely defensive.
@@dirkdiggler6230 its like US army protecting Democracy :) thats why theyre making war all over the world..
Timpanon.
But slavs and hungarians also accepted the civilisation too!
It is about obedience to Jesus.
He says he is Eurocentric and he is. He understands Europe but knows nothing about the the northern groups and their art.
It is impossible to cover every simple topic of European art history, he did try to mention some aspect of northern art when he spoke about the Gothic which originated in a more central European - Northern context.
Did he pronounce Byzantine wrong? Shouldn't it be '[baɪˈzntaɪn]'?
TRUE
Um, excuse you, Scandinavian land is highly fertile and most of the people during the viking era were actually engaged in farming. Not even 5 minutes in and I'm leaving, because clearly this guy has no clue what he's talking about.
Ok, bye!
Please add more facts
The original 1%... LOL
americans pronounce foreign words so that they don't even resemble the original. Giotto? Chartres?
Tom Bombadil so foreigners can pronounce english perfectly?
Mr. steves...! Where is art....!!!!??? TT
so much of this is just...not facts
Åse Formo its oversimplified for Joe Public
Åse Formo Like what
Åse Formo cite examples then.
Mr. Steves' explanation of the directional forces on Romanesque vs Gothic arches is completely backward. But, it's fun to make 13 tourists do stuff in public, so he's got *that* going for him!
amsterdamsel Im studying church history. I stopped watching this soon as he went into Church bashing mode. I believe much history is not taught in propper context. Sort of a biased retelling of Edward gibbon's biased "The Fall Of The Roman Empire. I am striving to learn real history not the anti authoritarian baby boomer accepted history. BS stuff like the example Christians burned down the library of Alexandria.
Five minutes in. This is really bad history.
Bye!
I’m not Ahmed Salem I’m Hadi Salem