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  1. Palazzo Venezia, Rome: A Cardinal’s Palace (1986 Video)

    Producer
    Charles Cooper
    Subject
    Architecture; Art
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    The Palazzo Venezia was the first major Renaissance palace to be built in Rome. It was commissioned by the wealthy Venetian Pietro Barbo, to lie alongside the Basilica of San Marco, where he was Cardinal...

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  2. Caught in the Act: As You Like It (1988 Television)

    Director
    Mary Gwatkin
    Producer
    Mary Gwatkin

    Television documentary on the work of Kenneth Branagh’s Renaissance Theatre Company. Geraldine McEwan talks about the experience of directing As You Like It and the challenges it presents. There are...

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  3. What Did Gutenberg Invent? (2002)

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

    For the last 550 years, it has been believed the Johannes Gutenberg was the inventor of movable type. This programme travels to Gutenberg’s hometown of Maintz in Germany to discover how Gutenberg lived and...

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  4. Petal Pictures

    Date released
    30 Jun 1969
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    2091
    NoS ID
    027917
    Story no
    4 / 5

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Petal Pictures. DESCRIPTION: A cobbled street in Genzano, twenty miles from Rome is transformed by huge, intricate mosaics made up entirely of flower petals. SHOTLIST: GV street in...

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  5. Masaccio: A View of Mankind (1984)

    aka: View of Mankind, A

    Director
    Christopher Burstall
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 40 minutes), £14.95

    Masaccio (1401-1428) was among the most innovative Florentine artists of the early Renaissance. His paintings broke from Gothic convention by portraying their human subjects as individuals in a social...

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  6. Politicised Space: Florence and Milan (1999 Video)

    Producer
    Charles Cooper
    Subject
    Architecture; History; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Off-air recording, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min.

    Discusses the way different political regimes require different uses for the city and its buildings. In three parts: 1) Republican Florence: looks at civic humanism and patrician power in 15th-centurey...

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  7. "Not Single Spies,/ But in Battalions: Codes and Ciphers from the Renaissance to Today (2014 Audio)

    aka: Codes and Ciphers from the Renaissance to Today

    Series
    Shakespeare Unlimited
    Producer
    Richard Paul

    Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. A comment occuring late in this podcast : "Without Bacon and Shakespeare, we might not have won the war in the Pacific," states Bill Sherman, head of research at...

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  8. Scenes from ‘A Pastorall’ (1645) (2000)

    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL NTSC SECAM, 45 minutes), £20.00

    'A Pastorall’ written by two noblewomen, the sisters Lady Jane Cavendish and Lady Elizabeth Brackley, is a pastoral masque which uses the rural figures of shepherds and shepherdesses to explore the...

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  9. 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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  10. Caught in the Act: Hamlet (1988 Television)

    Director
    Mary Gwatkin
    Producer
    Mary Gwatkin

    Television documentary on the work of Kenneth Branagh’s Renaissance Theatre Company. Hamlet is shown in rehearsal and production at Elsinore, Denmark in the presence of the King and Queen of Denmark....

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