Description |
8 videodiscs (approximately 360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 4 course guidebooks (ii, 80 pages ; 22 cm) |
Series |
Great courses (DVD)
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System Details |
DVD. |
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Title from disc surface. |
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Forty-eight lectures (30 min. ea.) on eight discs in four containers. |
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For specific features see interactive menu. |
Performer |
Lecturer, William Kloss, Smithsonian Associates, Smithsonian Institution. |
Summary |
This 48 lecture series surveys the great movements of European painting, sculpture, and architecture from the age of Charlemagne to the onset of World War II. |
Contents |
pt. 1. Approaches to European art -- Carolingian and Ottonian art -- Romanesque sculpture and architecture -- Gothic art in France -- Gothic art in Germany and Italy -- Giotto and the Arena Chapel, parts I & II -- Duccio and the Maesta -- Sienese art in the 14th century -- The Black Death and the international style -- Early Renaissance sculpture in Florence -- Early Renaissance architecture in Florence -- pt. 2. Masaccio and early Renaissance painting -- Jan van Eyck and northern Renaissance art -- Northern Renaissance altarpieces -- Piero della Francesca in Arezzo -- Sandro Botticelli -- Andrea Mantegna and Giovanni Bellini -- High Renaissance painting in Venice -- The High Renaissance: Leonardo da Vinci -- The High Renaissance: Raphael -- The High Renaissance: Michelangelo -- Albrecht Durer and German Renaissance art -- Riemenschneider and Grunewald. -- |
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pt. 3. Netherlandish art in the 16th century -- Pieter Bruegel the Elder -- Mannerism and the late work of Michelangelo -- Annibale Carracci and the reform of art -- Carabaggio -- Italian Baroque painting in Rome -- Gian Lorenzo Bernini -- Peter Paul Rubens -- Dutch painting in the 17th century -- Rembrandt -- Poussin and Claude: the allure of Rome -- Baroque painting in Spain -- pt. 4. Louis XIV and Versailles -- French art in the 18th century -- Neoclassicism and the birth of Romanticism -- Romanticism in the 19th century -- Realism: from Daumier to Courbet -- Manet and Monet: the birth of Impressionism -- Monet and Degas -- Renoir, Pissarro, and Cezanne -- Beyond Impressionism: from Seurt to Matisse -- Cubism and early Modern painting -- Modern sculpture: Rodin and Brancusi -- Art between two wars: Kandinsky to Picasso. |
Subject |
Art, European -- History -- Videodiscs.
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DVDs.
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Teaching Company.
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ISBN |
1598030906 : $199.95 |
Standard No. |
9781598030907 |
Music No. |
7100 The Teaching Company |
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7100-01-7100-04 The Teaching Company |
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