Simon Schama's Power of Art (Disc 1)
Type
Audio/Visual
Authors
Category
Art, Documentary Film
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Publication Year
2007
Publisher
Duration
400 min.
Subject
Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da, 1573-1610. Bernini, Gian Lorenzo, -- 1598-1680. Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, -- 1606-1669. David, Jacques Louis, -- 1748-1825. Turner, J. M. W. -- (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851. Gogh, Vincent van, 1853
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Abstract
Focusing on eight iconic works of art, this series reveals the history of visual imagination through the ages. A combination of reconstruction, photography and storytelling transport the viewer back to the intense moments when great works were conceived and born: the murderous, messianic world of Baroque Rome; opulent, parvenu Amsterdam; paranoid, revolutionary Paris; Victorian England suffocating beneath riches and righteousness; the madhouses and brothels of Provence; the carnage of civil war Spain; 1950s New York, caught between Cold War jitters and Manhattan glitter. In each place, a great artist is backed into a corner, facing a crisis, given a chance to confound his rivals, enemies and critics one more time.
Description
3 videodiscs (ca. 400 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Audio: English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired.
Disc 1 includes:
Caravaggio's "David With the Head of Goliath"
Bernini's "Ecstasy of Saint Teresa"
Rembrandt's "Claudius Civilis"
Audio: English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired.
Disc 1 includes:
Caravaggio's "David With the Head of Goliath"
Bernini's "Ecstasy of Saint Teresa"
Rembrandt's "Claudius Civilis"
Number of Copies
1
