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This television series reveals the stories behind famous works of art: how the pieces were created, how they have influenced others and how they have come to have a life of their own in the modern world. All...
Examines the influence of humanism in painting, sculpture and architecture. In 9 sections: 1) Signs of Change: compares the frescoes of Benozzo Gozzoli in the chapel of the Medici Palace, Florence, with...
British television comedy series. Includes a sketch, presented in newsreel style, satirising Mary Whitehouse’s campaign against pornography. A coach load of ‘pepperpots’ (middle-class grey-haired women...
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...
British television comedy series. This episode includes the sketch ‘The Man Who Speaks in Anagrams’. Part of the dialogue is as follows: Palin: And I believe you’re working on an anagram version of...
300 MINUTES OF ART offers an overview and introduction to the series 1000 Masterpieces from the Great Museum of the World, published under the Masterworks series. The blu-ray contains 30 films and features...
British television comedy series. Includes a sketch entitled ‘Hospital for Over-Actors’ which parodies Olivier. Dialogue is as follows: Specialist: Most of these cases are pretty unpleasant. Nurse......
British television comedy series. The episodes features a sketch which presents the first underwater production of Measure For Measure. Dubbed over an expanse of sea is muffled Shakespearean blank verse. The...
In the first episode of the Monty Python special (performed in phonetic German), a documentary about Albrecht Dürer is interrupted by a condensed performance of The Merchant of Venice, starring ‘The Bad...
Film Sound in Italy by Antonella Sisto (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), 236 pages, ISBN: 978-1137387707 (hardback), £60 About the reviewer: Professor Gordon has published widely on 20th-century Italian...
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