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What is Beauty? (2012)

Director

Neil Crombie

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £9.99

Artist and writer Matthew Collings presents an exploration of the subject of beauty in art, as he wonders if beauty is only in the eye of the beholder, or if there is something more universal we can say...

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Aztec Double-Headed Serpent, The (2006)

Subject

Art; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 30 minutes), £9.99

This film takes as its focus the turquoise mosaic of a double-headed serpent from the British Museum’s Mexican Gallery, and examines in detail the method of craftsmanship, the tools and materials of its...

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Encounters: The Meeting of Asia and Europe (2004)

Subject

Art; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 50 minutes), £17.99

A film that ties in with the V&A’s major 2004 exhibition of the same name that brought together a range of objects from the period 1500-1800, after Europeans first discovered the sea route to the Indies...

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Gothic: Art for England 1400-1547 (2003)

aka: Glory of Gothic, The

Subject

Architecture; Art; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 50 minutes), £19.99

An introduction to the art of late medieval England and the early years of the Renaissance. This is the age of the Hundred Years’ War, the Wars of the Roses and the early Tudors. Under kings from Henry IV...

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Lewis Chessmen, The (2006)

Subject

Archaeology; Art; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 30 minutes), £9.99

This 30 minute film looks at the well-known chess pieces, their mysterious discovery, and discusses their place within the history of the ancient game of chess and the feudal society of the time. The DVD...

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Art of France (2017)

Subject

Art; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 150 minutes), £585.00

Three episode series tracing the history of French art, presented by art critic Andrew Graham-Dixon. Beginning with the arrival of Classicism and the Age of Enlightenment, the series proceeeds through the...

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Written on Water: A Film About Budapest (1996 Video)

Director

Dennis Marks

Producer

Paul Neuberg

Subject

Art; History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 1997 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

History, geography, architecture, art, music, politics and atmostphere of the city of Budapest, dissected by the River Danube and watered by hunderds of springs.

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Piet Mondrian (1973 Film)

Director

Nico Crama

Producer

Nico Crama

Subject

Art

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Traces Mondrian’s development from naturalism, through cubism, to pure abstraction. A portrait of the painter emerges through the use of phohotgraphs and other documets evoking his sourrounding and...

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Inside the Vatican (2002 Video)

Subject

Art; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, VHS (53 min), £12.99 (inc)

Show some of the most revered places in the world and sacred ceremonies seldom seen by outsiders. Includes interviews with some of the men and women - from art restorers to Roman Catholic leaders - who live...

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Leonardo Da Vinci 2 (1999 Video)

Subject

Art; Science

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 55 min., 2000 sale: £29.95 (inc. VAT +p&p)

Looks at the life and work of Italian artist, sculptor, architect and engineer Leonardo da Vinci. Includes three-dimensional graphics to explain and ‘test’ Leonardo’s theories and designs,...

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