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Leonardo/The Divine Michelangelo (2004)

Subject

Art; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 300 minutes), £19.99

A 3-part BBC series on the life and work of Leonardo da Vinci combined on one DVD with a two-part docudrama on the life of Michelangelo.

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"Painting is Welcome" (Audio)

aka: Recreating the Boydell Gallery

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul

Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. In the decades after Shakespeare’s death, his works fell out of favour. His renaissance is usually credited to actor-manager David Garrick, who staged a...

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Enigmatic Smile and the Holy Kinship, The (1989)

aka: Palettes: The Virgin, St Anne and the Infant Jesus, C.1500-15: Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519)

Director

Alain Jaubert

Producer

Marie de Mercey

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £19.99

Discusses Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne’ (c1510), in terms of the painting itself, the painter, and a palette of colour: pigment, composition and light effects. The figures...

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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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Ascent of Man, The (13 Parts) (1973 Video)

Subject

Anthropology; Biology; History; Philosophy

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 650 minutes), £36.99

A classic13-part series in which Jacob Bronowski examines the intellectual, cultural, and scientific breakthroughs in man’s four-million-year evolution. He discusses the importance of new ideas and how...

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