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Botticelli’s Drawings for the Divine Comedy (2014)

Director

Ben McPherson

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 60 minutes), £17.99

With the patronage of the Medici family, Botticelli created a series of famous illustrations for Dante’s Divine Comedy. Free and unconventional in his imagery, Botticelli reveals the extent of his genius...

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Sacred Music (2010)

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 330 minutes), £24.99

Four-part documentary series in which actor and former chorister Simon Russell Beale explores the flowering of Western sacred music. Featuring music performed by members of the award-winning choir The...

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Giotto: The Arena Chapel (1995 Video)

Producer

Charles Cooper

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (DVD-R, 24 minutes), £34.99 (CM)

Giotto’s fresco decorative scheme for the Arena Chapel in Padua is considered to be one of the cornerstones of western art. Professor Charles Harrison investigates this commission by Enrico Scrovegni and...

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Ottoman Supremacy: The Suleymaniye, Istanbul (1989 Video)

Producer

Charles Cooper

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

After the fall of Constantinople in 1452 the Ottoman Empire expanded rapidly to dominate the Eastern Mediterranean and North Africa. By the reign of Sultan Suleyman I, known in the west as Suleyman the...

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Panel Painting (1986 Video)

Producer

Charles Cooper

Subject

Art

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

Looks at certain 15th-century panel paintings in the National Gallery, London, identifying them as three-dimensional objects rather than two-dimensional images, and examining how and why they were made. In...

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Making and Meaning: The Young Michelangelo: Sculpture and Painting in Florence and Rome (1994 Video)

Subject

Art

Distribution

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

Looks at influences on the youthful Michelangelo, showing works by Donatello, Verrocchio and Bertoldo. Also analyses the changes in Michelangelo’s art brought about by his first visit to Rome in 1496....

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Titian (2007)

Director

Jake Auerbach

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 mins), £7.75

Documentary. Titian has been called the "first great 20th Century Artist". His fresh interpretations of old stories from mythology, and his constant reinvention of the portrait, have inspired artists for...

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Raphael (2 Parts) (1983)

aka: Rafaello

Director

Ann Turner

Producer

Ann Turner

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 58 minutes each), £26.00 (I)

A two-part profile of the Italian painter Raphael (1483-1520). Part 1: Examines Raphael’s life and career up to the age of 25, looking in particular at the ways in which he synthesised the lessons learned...

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Architectures (5 Disc Series) (2009)

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 160 mins each disc approx), £12.99(each disc) £40.00 (set)

A series of 29 programmes on five DVDs each consisting of five or six individual 26-minute films which present a privileged and unprecedented look at the work of leading architects and some of their most...

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