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Richard Murphy: Scarpa, The Venetian (1997 Multimedia)

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

Sale, Audiocassette. 30 min; 24 slides. col., 1998 sale: £45.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Architect Richard Murphy examines how the late Carlo Scarpa has understood the nature of the city of Venice. Scarpa is considered by architects as the great authority on how to intervene creatively in...

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Chris Ofili (2004)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 26 minutes), £13.99

In 2003 Chris Ofili created the spectacular installation ‘within reach’ for the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Combining a cycle of paintings depicting lovers in a Paradise-like garden with a...

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Struggle for the Mediterranean in the Sixteenth Century, The (Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 25 min., 1996 sale: £19.99 (+VAT inc. p&p)

Looks at the factions that struggled to control the Mediterranean in the late 15th and early 16th-centuries. Covers: Venice in crisis - Turks and Portuguese; conflict spreads to the western Mediterranean;...

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Santa Maria Dei Miracoli, Venice (1986 Video)

Producer

Robert Philip

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

Examines the church of Santa Maria dei Miracoli, Venice built between 1481 and 1489 to the designs of Pietro Lombardo. The church enshrines the miraculous image of the ‘Virgin and Child’, a painting by...

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Comfort of Strangers, The (1990)

Director

Paul Schrader

Subject

Film studies; Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 104 minutes), £14.99

Mary (Natasha Richardson) and Colin (Rupert Everett) attempt to reinvigorate their flagging relationship with a romantic trip to Venice. Soon though, they find themselves drawn into a complex web of deceit,...

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Art Deco Icons (2013)

Subject

Architecture; Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £9.99

In this series architectural historian David Heathcote checks into Claridges Hotel in London’s Mayfair, explores the dramatic 1930s London Transport HQ in St James, spends the weekend at Casa del Rio and...

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Benjamin Britten: A Time There was (2013)

Director

Tony Palmer

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 101 minutes), £12.99

Tony Palmer’s in-depth portrait of composer Benjamin Britten. The English Chamber Orchestra perform extracts from Britten’s works, including ‘The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra’, ‘Peter...

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El Greco: ‘Christ Driving the Traders from the Temple’ (1995 Video)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 25 min., 1999 sale £10.00 (inclusive)

Traces El Greco’s life from his birth in Crete and the years he worked in Venice and Rome, to the time when he settled in Toledo, Spain, where he painted ‘Christ Driving the Traders from the Temple’,...

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Jasper Johns: Ideas in Paint (1988)

aka: Ideas in Paint

Director

Rick Tejada-Flores

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 56 minutes), £17.99

Jasper Johns (b.1930) is one of the most influential figures in American modern art. Filmed in 1988 at the time of his retrospective exhibition at the 1988 Venice Biennale , this assessment of his career...

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Persisting Dreams: Romanticism in Europe (1996 Video)

Producer

G D Jayalakshmi

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 49 min., 1998 sale: £195.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Tells the story of Byron as romantic hero - how he constructed himself and how he influenced later artists including the French painter Delacroix and the composer Giuseppi Verdi. Romanticism is thus shown as...

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