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  1. Venice: A Second-Hand City? (2002)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 30 minutes), £145.00 +VAT +p&p

    In 1611, Thomas Coryat published ‘Observations of Venice’, a travel guide which referred to the city as ‘the most glorious and heavenly view upon the water that ever any mortal eye beheld’. This view...

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  2. Early Dance: Part 1: From the Greeks to the Renaissance (1995)

    Subject
    Dance
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 22 minutes), £29.99

    Isa Partsch-Bergsohn and Hal Bergsohn present the concise history of Greek to Elizabethan dance using engravings, prints, and paintings with accompanying music and narration. Period-costumed dancers...

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  3. Renaissance Faces (2008)

    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 50 minutes), £5.00

    Renaissance artists made portraits for many of the same reasons that we do today: to mark important moments in individual lives, in memory of those who are no longer with us, or to promote a public...

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  4. Florence. Part 1 (1986 Video)

    Producer
    Robert Philip
    Subject
    Architecture
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Examines the complex relationship between medieval and Renaissance Florence. Looks at a number of medieval buildings in Florence, including the Palazzo Vecchio, the Baptistery and San Miniato, and shows how...

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  5. Florentine Carnival (1977 Video)

    Subject
    History; Italian studies
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min.

    Recreates background for the street carnivals of the time of Lorenzo de Medici. A group of strolling players presents songs, sketches and a display of tumbling.

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  6. Renaissance Florence: The Art of the 1470s (1999 Video)

    Director
    Carol Hambledon; Marcus Latham
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 26 min., 2000 sale: £10.00 (inclusive)

    Examines the decade beginning around 1470, when the city of Florence became the artistic capital of Europe with outstanding works being produced in a variety of media. Evokes the atmosphere of Florence at...

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  7. Conspiring Against the Queen (2002)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 30 minutes), £145.00 +VAT +p&p

    Elizabeth Ist’s most effective weapon was her spy network. But when her own doctor is accused of conspiring to kill her, whom should she believe? Dr. Rodrigo Lopez was not only the Queen’s doctor, a Jew...

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  8. Court Culture and Courtiers / Court Culture: Structure and System (2000 Video)

    Producer
    Charles Cooper
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Audiocassette 60 min.

    Side A: Professor Sydney Anglo discusses Castiglione’s book’ The Book of the Courtier’, which was very popular during the Renaissance in several European countries. Asks why generations of courtiers...

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  9. Mirrors of Paradise (1991 Video)

    Director
    Jurgen Schadeberg
    Subject
    Arts and Humanities; History; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 55 minutes), £50.00

    Celebrates the cultural and religious co-existence between Muslim, Christian and Jew which throve in Spain prior to 1492 and so influenced the European Renaissance. Features poetry, architecture, paintings,...

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  10. Renaissance Stage, The: The Idea and Image of Antiquity (1989 Video)

    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 40 min., 1998 sale: £38.00 (inc. p&p +VAT)

    Traces the influence of Renaissance concepts of dramatic settings on modern theatrical practice. Shot on location in Italy at three surviving threatres of the period - Palladio’s Teatro Olimpico in...

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