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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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Science and Medicine / Montaigne (2000 Video)

Producer

Charles Cooper

Subject

History

Distribution

out of distribution, Audiocassette. 59 min.

Side A: Dr Andrew Cunningham explores some of the relations between making pictures as ‘high art’ and making pictures of the human body to portray its structure and function - anatomical illustration, in...

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Riddle of the Dome, The (1999 Video)

Producer

Cameron Balbirnie

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

Off-air recording Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 29 min., 2001 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Follows Florentine architect Massimo Ricci as he attempts to unravel the secret construction methods used by Filippo Brunelleschi in building the dome of Florence cathedral. He has built a house-sized...

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Baptistry, Padua, The (1995)

Subject

Architecture; Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 25 minutes), £34.99

An exploration of the complex decorative scheme painted by Giusto de Menabuoi, which fills the interior of the public baptistry which was commandeered to become a family funerary chapel by Fina Buzzacarina,...

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Palazzo Pubblico, Siena (1993)

Producer

Charles Cooper

Subject

Architecture; Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (DVD-R, 25 minutes), £34.99 (CM)

Analyses the function and design of the Palazzo Pubblico, or city hall, built to honour and beautify the independent city-state. The celebrated frescos by Simone Martini and Ambrogio Lorenzetti provide an...

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History of Western Art (2000 Multimedia)

Subject

Art

Distribution

CD-ROM

A multimedia survey of the history and development Western art, featuring six main movements: the late medieval world, the Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo to revolution, Romanticism, and Impressionism and...

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Spanish Court and the Italian Renaissance, The (2001)

Subject

Architecture; History

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL), £85.00

During the time when Christians, Jews and Muslims co-existed in Spain, there was a sharing of customs and ideas which is clearly seen in Seville today. The Alhambra in Granada testifies to the cultural...

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Titian (2007)

aka: Tiziano

Director

Didier Baussy-Oulianoff

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 57 minutes), £17.99

Didier Baussy-Oulianoff’s film takes the viewer to the places where the Renaissance artist devised his artworks and painted for the most influential courts. Contemporaries of Titian’s, such as Vasari and...

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Italian Patient, The (2002)

Subject

History; Medical sciences

Distribution

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

While leeches, bleeding and amputation with opium were commonplace practices in Renaissance medicine, it also had a surprisingly enlightened side. The Santa Maria Nuova hospital in Florence offered free...

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The Continental Scene

Date released

11 Jan 1954

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1284

NoS ID

018981

Story no

6 / 8

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Hapsburg Wedding. DESCRIPTION: HAPSBURG WEDDING - At the Renaissance Church at Bourg-en-Bresse in France, was recently the scene of the wedding of Archduke Robert of Hapsburg and...

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