Art of the Western World

Dec 23, 2024 (en) Documentary [0] Min
  • First Air Date
    Dec 23, 2024
  • Production
  • Rotten tomato
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  • Original title
    Art of the Western World
  • Release
    Dec 23, 2024
  • en
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Overview

First broadcast on October 2, 1989, these 18 original 30-minute episodes provide a panorama of 2000 years of architecture, painting and sculpture, and studies the art masterpieces as reflections of the Western culture that produced them.

  1. Music Supervisor

  2. Producer

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  1. Michael Wood

    Self - Presenter

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Season 1 ( )

Season 1 has 18 original episodes, each 30-minutes long.

The Legacy of Greece

Episode: 1

Season 2 ( )

Season 2 has 9 episodes, each 60-minutes long. The 18 original 30-minute episodes are consolidated to 9 one-hour episodes. (1) "The Classical Ideal": The origins of Western art are traced to ancient Greece and Rome. (2) "A White Garment of Churches": Romanesque and Gothic churches and the effect of monasticism and pilgrimage on art and architecture. (3) "The Early Renaissance in Italy and the North". (4) "The High Renaissance": Includes Da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael. (5) "Realms of Light": The Baroque period, including Bernini, Caravaggio, Velasquez, Rembrandt. (6) "An Age of Reason, an Age of Passion": Rococo, Neoclassicism, Romanticism. (7) "Realists, Impressionists, Post-Impressionists". (8) "Into the Twentieth Century" ; Fauves, Cubists, Surrealists, etc. (9) "In Our Own Time": Post-war period, Abstract Expression, Post-Modernism, etc. Pollock, Warhol, Oldenburg, etc.
Dec 23, 2024 (en)
Documentary
[0] Min
  • First Air Date Dec 23, 2024
  • Production
  • Rotten tomato 100%
Original Title Art of the Western World
en

Overview

First broadcast on October 2, 1989, these 18 original 30-minute episodes provide a panorama of 2000 years of architecture, painting and sculpture, and studies the art masterpieces as reflections of the Western culture that produced them.

  1. Music Supervisor

  2. Producer