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Masterpieces of the Hermitage (6 Parts) (1993 Video)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 6 X 30 min., 1996 sale: £29.00 (+VAT +p&p)

A series on the Hermitage and its art treasures, which represent every school of Western art. 1: A walk through the Hermitage, Catherine the Great’s great palace in St Petersburg, looking at architecture...

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Siena Cathedral (1994)

Producer

Charles Cooper

Subject

Architecture; Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (DVD-R, 48 minutes), £34.99 (CM)

Investigates the unusual history of Siena Cathedral’s construction from the early 13th to the end of the 14th century. The unusual and detailed history of its construction dramatically portrays Siena’s...

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Spanish Chapel, The (1993 Video)

Producer

Amanda Willett

Subject

Art

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

The chapter house of Santa Maria Novella in Florence, now known as the Spanish Chapel, contains an extraordinary fresco cycle by Andrea Bonaiuti. Dr Joanna Cannon explains some of the complex theological...

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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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Living Paintings - A Presentation Novelty: Romeo and Juliet (1924 Film)

aka: Romeo and Juliet

Series

Eve and Everybody’s Film Review

The balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet in the Birmingham Repertory Company production directed by H.K. Ayliff and performed by John Gielgud and Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies. The set, designed by Paul Shelving, is...

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