Art History II: A Survey of the Western World (12 Parts)

Synopsis

Series surveying European and American art from the Renaissance to the early 20th century. Each part concludes with a brief visual quiz.

Language

English

Country

United States

Medium

Video; Videocassette. VHS. col. 12 x 15 min.

Year of production

1989

Availability

Sale; 1995 sale: £29.00 (+VAT +p&p) each

Uses

Ages 11 and up.

Subjects

Art

Keywords

architecture - French; architecture - Italian; Buonarroti, Michelangelo (1475-1564); Gaudi, Antonio; Greco, El (1541-1614); paintings - American; paintings - British; paintings - European; paintings - French; paintings - German; paintings - Italian; paintings - Netherlandish; Raphael (1483-1520); Renaissance art; Renaissance buildings

Credits

Producer

Donna Easter

Cast

Donna Hicks

Sections

Title

Ash can plus

Synopsis

1: Work of 20th-century American artists George Bellows, George Luks, John Sloan, Alfred Stieglitz and Reginald Marsh.

Title

Chateaux of the Loire

Synopsis

2: Architecture of the French chateaux of Amboise, Azay-le-Rideau, Blois, Chambord, Chenonceau and Cherverny in the Loire Valley.

Title

Colonials: realistic and romantic

Synopsis

3: Works of 18th- and 19th-century American artists John Singleton Copley, Benjamin West, George Catlin, George Caleb Bingham, Albert Bierstadt, Frederic Edwin Church and Albert Pinkham Ryder. (AVRC VP705)

Title

Cosmopolitans: looking towards Europe

Synopsis

4: Work of 19th- and early 20th-century American artists John Singer Sargent, James Abbot McNeill Whistler, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, Robert Henri and Maurice Prendergast.

Title

English painting

Synopsis

5: Works of 18th- and 19th-century English artists William Hogarth, Thomas Gainsborough, Joshua Reynolds, John Constable, Joseph Mallard William Turner and Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

Title

Flemish painting

Synopsis

6: Works of 15th-17th-century Flemish artists Jan van Eyck, Rogier Van der Weyden, Peter Bruegel the Elder, Hans Memling and Peter Paul Rubens.

Title

German painting

Synopsis

7: Works of 15th- and 16th-century German artists Matthias Grünewald, Albrecht Dürer, Lucas Cranach the Elder and Hans Holbein the Younger.

Title

Italian architecture

Synopsis

8: Works of Italian Renaissance architects Alberti, Brunelleschi, Bramante, Michelangelo, Palladio; mannerist Giolio Romano; baroque architects Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Baldassare Longhena.

Title

Italian Renaissance painting

Synopsis

9: Works of Italian Renaissance artists Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael.

Title

Mannerism: Italy

Synopsis

10: Mannerist works of Italian artists Francesco Parmigianino, Pontormo, Agnolo Bronzino, Tintoretto and Michelangelo. (AVRC VP707)

Title

Seventeenth century Dutch masters

Synopsis

11: Works of 17th-century Dutch painters Rembrandt van Rijn, Frans Hals, Jan Vermeer, Pieter de Hooch and Jacob van Ruisdael. (AVRC VP706)

Title

Spain

Synopsis

12: Works of Spanish artists El Greco, Valéquez, Goya and Antonio Gaudi.

Production Company

Name

USA

Distributor

Name

Viewtech Educational Media

Contact

Lynda Morrell

Notes

NB. Viewtech ceased trading in 2014 and the company’s products are no longer in distribution For over 30 years Viewtech distributed programmes from leading specialist educational producers from around the world and since 2002 it included titles previously distributed in the UK by Educational Media Film & Video. The extensive collection covered all subjects within the primary and secondary curriculum and some materials, particularly in the areas of study skills and business, are applicable to further/higher education.