Search results
With Michael Wood, Germano Celant, Rosalind Krauss, Kathleen Weil-Garris Brandt. Provides a panorama of 2000 years of architecture, painting and sculpture, and studies the art masterpieces as reflections of the Western culture that produced them.
- (85)
- 1989-10-15
- Documentary
- 60
Art of the Western World: #2 A White Garment of Churches Romanesque and Gothic Art. Marco Arguello. •. 37K views • 4 years ago. •.
- Episode 9: In Our Own TIme part 43.2K views
- Episode 6: An Age of Reason, an Age of Passion part 44.3K views
- Episode 6: An Age of Reason, an Age of Passion part 34.6K views
- Episode 6: An Age of Reason, an Age of Passion part 25.6K views
- Episode 5: Realms of Light: The Baroque part 27.1K views
- Episode 6: An Age of Reason, an Age of Passion part 73.8K views
- Episode 3: The Early Renaissance part 63.4K views
- Episode 2: A White Garment of Churches: Romanesque and Gothic Art part 511.7K views
- Episode 2: A White Garment of Churches: Romanesque and Gothic Art part 413.7K views
- Episode 2: A White Garment of Churches: Romanesque and Gothic Art part 316.8K views
- 519 min
- The Classical Ideal. Part I: Traces the origins of humanism and the immortal classical style to Ancient Greece. Part II: The genius of Roman engineering and architecture was used to build an empire, while portrait sculpture exalted its rulers.
- A White Garment of Churches — Romanesque and Gothic. Part I: With the fall of the Roman empire, Christianity flourished with the Church as patron of monumental Romanesque architecture and sculpture.
- The Early Renaissance. Part I: The rebirth of classical themes and humanistic ideas marked the Renaissance in Italy, as seen in Florentines Brunelleschi, Masaccio, Ghiberti, and Botticelli.
- The High Renaissance <-------- Only one NOT in HD 1080.
Beginning in ancient Greece and Rome, historian Michael Wood leads this eye-opening tour through 2,500 years of Western art. Four years in the making and filmed at over 140 locations in 10 countries, this nine-part documentary travels the globe.
Provides a panorama of 2000 years of architecture, painting and sculpture, and studies the art masterpieces as reflections of the Western culture that produced them.
- Michael Wood
- 1
- 2
Beginning in ancient Greece and Rome, historian Michael Wood leads this eye-opening tour through 2,500 years of Western art. Four years in the making and filmed at over 140 locations in 10 countries, this nine-part documentary travels the globe.
The Classical Ideal: Directed by Geoff Dunlop, Bayley Silleck. With Michael Wood, John Boardman, Andrew Stewart, Richard Brilliant. The Greeks created a classical ideal against which all subsequent art would be measured; Rome's genius lay in architecture and civil engineering.
