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National Gallery, The: A Private View

Synopsis
Series dealing with the history of European art.
1: The religious Italian art of the 13th and 14th centuries featuring Duccio, Sassetta, Pisanello and the Lorenzetti brothers.
2: a) 15th-century artists and their new visions of the world. Featues Botticelli, Masaccio and Piero Della Francesca; b) the life-like images of northern Renaissance painting, featuring van Eyck and Lucas Cranach.
3: a) 16th-century Venice and artists Giovanni Bellini, Giorgione and Tinteorette; b) Leonardo and his art.
4: a) Flemish artists Rubens and van Dyck; 2) Rembrandt and his art.
5: a) the three centuries from the birth of El Greco in 1541 to the death of Goya in 1828; b) the French painters Poussin and Claude and the Italian Canaletto.
6: a) Turner, Constable, Hogarth, Gainsborough; b) French art of the 19th century, featuring Manet, Monet, Pissaro, Degas, Seurat and Céezanne.
Language
English
Country
Great Britain
Medium
Video; Videocassette. VHS. col. 27, 54, 54, 54, 54, 54 min.
Year of production
1990
Availability
Sale; 2005 sale: £14.99 (inc) each part - EDS
Subjects
Art
Keywords
art - modern art; artists - British; artists - Flemish; artists - French; artists - Italian; artists - Spanish; Constable, John (1776-1837); Eyck, Hubert van; Goya, Francisco Jose de; Greco, El (1541-1614); Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519); paintings; Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669); Renaissance art; Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640); Titian; Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851)

Credits

Writer
Edwin Mullins
Cast
Edwin Mullins 

Sections

Title
Birth of European painting, The
Synopsis
1: The religious Italian art of the 13th and 14th centuries featuring Duccio, Sassetta, Pisanello and the Lorenzetti brothers.

Title
Early Renaissance in Italy / The northern Renaissance
Synopsis
2: a) 15th-century artists and their new visions of the world. Featues Botticelli, Masaccio and Piero Della Francesca; b) the life-like images of northern Renaissance painting, featuring van Eyck and Lucas Cranach.

Title
Age of Titian, The / The age of Leonardo
Synopsis
3: a) 16th-century Venice and artists Giovanni Bellini, Giorgione and Tinteorette; b) Leonardo and his art.

Title
Age of Rubens, The / The age of Rembrandt
Synopsis
4: a) Flemish artists Rubens and van Dyck; 2) Rembrandt and his art.

Title
El Greco to Goya / The Baroque in France and Italy
Synopsis
5: a) the three centuries from the birth of El Greco in 1541 to the death of Goya in 1828; b) the French painters Poussin and Claude and the Italian Canaletto.

Title
British achievement, The / The road to modern art
Synopsis
6: a) Turner, Constable, Hogarth, Gainsborough; b) French art of the 19th century, featuring Manet, Monet, Pissaro, Degas, Seurat and Céezanne.

Distributor

Name

Education Distribution Service

Email
info@edist.co.uk
Phone
01795 427614
Fax
01795 474871
Address
Education House, Drywall Estate
Murston
Sittingbourne, Kent
ME10 3RL
Name

Odyssey Video

Phone
0208 216 6993
Fax
0208 216 6652
Address
Unit 1
Dundee Way
Enfield
Middlesex
EN3 7SX
 

Available from retail outlets

Name

World Microfilms

Contact
Stephen Albert
Email
microworld@ndirect.co.uk
Web
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Phone
020 7586 4499
Fax
020 7722 1068
Address
PO Box 35488
St John’s Wood
London
NW8 6WD
Notes
World Microfilms distributes the Audio Forum collection of CDs for language learning and the Sussex Tapes library of video and audio material for sixth form and undergraduate teaching. The Sussex Tapes collection concentrates on the areas of English, history and music. Architecture programmes from the Masters of Architecture and Pidgeon Digital (qv) series of slides are sold on DVD as well as being accessible online via subscription.

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