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Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel (2006)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 35 minutes), £19.99

Michelangelo’s masterpiece painted on the domed ceiling of the Sistine Chapel is possibly the finest work of art of the Renaissance era. It combines religion, art, philosophy and personifies the intensity...

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Date

10 Jul 2013, 14:49

Author

Sergio Angelini

Post Type

BUFVC Review

2013. GB. Blu-ray. Arrow Video. 108 minutes + 100 minutes of extras. £19.99 About the reviewer: Dr Alex Marlow-Mann is Lecturer in European Film at the University of Birmingham and Acting Director of...

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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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Michelangelo (2006)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 40 minutes), £9.99

This documentary film accompanies the exhibition, ‘Michelangelo Drawings - Closer to the Master’, which was held at the British Museum in 2006. The film is presented by Neil MacGregor, Director of the...

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Maarten Van Heemskerck: Humanism and Painting in Northern Europe (1990 Video)

Producer

Charles Cooper

Subject

Art

Distribution

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

The young Dutch artist Maarten van Heemskerck travels to Rome to learn at first hand the sophistications of the new humanist art made famous by Michelangelo and his followers. Follows the development of...

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Italian Renaissance Drawings (2010)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 40 minutes), £9.99

More than any other medium, drawings give a direct insight into how Italian Renaissance artists worked. Featuring outstanding examples from two major collections - the Uffizi in Florence and the British...

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Vatican City: Art and Glory (2008)

Subject

Architecture; Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £16.99

The MUSEUM CITY DVD series visits some of the world’s most beautiful and historic cities, depicting each as if it were a museum. This video tours the Vatican City, as seen through the eyes of its artists...

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Passenger, The (1975)

Director

Michelangelo Antonioni

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (BR Region B, 119 minutes), £15.99

Film about an Anglo-American journalist, David Locke, who assumes the identity of a dead businessman while working on a documentary in Chad, unaware that he is impersonating an arms dealer with connections...

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Great Artists with Tim Marlow: Vol. 2 (2007)

Director

Ali Ray; Mehreen Saigol

Producer

Phil Grabsky

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 276 minutes), £40.00

What was it like to be an artist in centuries past? What makes a painting or an artist ‘great’? Tim Marlow presents this fascinating introduction to the works of the Old Masters as displayed in over...

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Chung Kuo (1972)

aka: China

Director

Michelangelo Antonioni

Subject

Film studies; Geography; History; Politics & government; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 208 minutes), £7.99

In 1972, during Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution, Michelangelo Antonioni was invited by the People’s Republic of China to direct a documentary about the New China. His eight-week travels with a crew...

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