Simon Schama's Power of art /
Schama, Simon
Simon Schama's Power of art / by Simon Schama. - BBC, 2006. - 3 DVD videos (approximately 463 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Disc 1. Caravaggio, Bernini, Rembrandt Disc 2. David, Turner, Van Gogh Disc 3. Picasso, Rothko
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.
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., 1775-1851
Gogh, Vincent van, 1853-1890
Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973
Rothko, Mark, 1903-1970
Art--History
Simon Schama's Power of art / by Simon Schama. - BBC, 2006. - 3 DVD videos (approximately 463 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Disc 1. Caravaggio, Bernini, Rembrandt Disc 2. David, Turner, Van Gogh Disc 3. Picasso, Rothko
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.
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., 1775-1851
Gogh, Vincent van, 1853-1890
Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973
Rothko, Mark, 1903-1970
Art--History