Met curator Melanie Holcomb on the potency of images in Curtain of the Tabernacle, one of six illustrated leaves from the Postilla Litteralis (Literal Commentary) of Nicholas of Lyra, c. 1360-1380. [2:22]

Met curator Catharine Roehrig on realism in Statue of an Offering Bearer dating from Egypt's Middle Kingdom, c. 1981-1975 B.C.E. [2:27]

Met curator Andrea Bayer on liberation in Jacopo Bassano's The Baptism of Christ, c. 1590. [2:45]

Met curator Keith Christiansen on timelessness in Berlinghiero's Madonna and Child. [2:53]

Met curator Barbara Drake Boehm on the bigger picture in Plaque with Censing Angels from medieval France, c. 1170-80. [2:45]

Met curator Soyoung Lee on contemplation in Pensive Bodhisattva from Korea's Three Kingdoms period, mid-7th century. [2:42]

Met curator Dita Amory on originality in Rembrandt van Rijn's The Last Supper, after Leonardo da Vinci, 1634-35. [2:43]

In 1967, Camilo Vergara recorded a dilapidated building in South Bend, Indiana. Vergara believes that the changing nature of buildings can reveal the social history of poor American neighborhoods. [2:24]

See how photography is more than a mechanical art, but rather an art infused with imagination, as exemplified by works from photographers Cameron, Watkins, Kasebier, Ulmann, Evans, Stieglitz, Le Gray, and Hine. [3:05]

Combining text and photography, contemporary artist Eileen Cowin explores narrative within her work. [2:30]

The artist David Hockney called his photo collages, "drawing with a camera." Here he discusses perspective and other issues in Pearblossom Hwy., 11-18th April 1986, #2. [3:11]