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  1. Bunkers, Brutalism and Bloody-Mindedness: Concrete Poetry with Jonathan Meades (2014)

    Subject
    Architecture
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 100 minutes), £339.00

    Writer, broadcaster and journalist Jonathan Meades explores the story of the Brutalist movement across Europe. Meades looks for its precursors in the Baroque and Modern Gothic movements, and the martial...

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  2. Rameau: Operas (11-Disc Box) (2011)

    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 1140 minutes), £49.99

    This collection of five operas, and a rarely performed grand motet, offers a glimpse into the magnificent output of one of the leading French composers of the Baroque era. Jean-Philippe Rameau is renowned...

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  3. England, My England: The Story of Henry Purcell (2010)

    Director
    Tony Palmer
    Subject
    Drama; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 152 minutes), £13.49

    A dramatisation of the life and times of Henry Purcell. Little is known about the enigmatic composer, but director Tony Palmer makes up for this by contextualising his story in late 17th Century England, and...

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  4. Diego Velazquez: The Painter of Painters (2008)

    Director
    Didier Baussy-Oulianoff
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 56 minutes), £17.99

    This documentary traces the career of Diego Velazquez (1599-1660), the court painter and favourite of the Spanish King Phillip IV, who rose to prominence as one of the foremost portrait painters in Europe....

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  5. Early Dance: Part 2: The Baroque Era (1995)

    Subject
    Dance
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 30 minutes), £29.99

    Isa Partsch-Bergsohn and Hal Bergsohn show the development of dance from the entertainments of the French court of Louis XIII to the theatrical art form during the reign of Louis XIV. The DVD provides a rich...

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  6. Landmarks of Western Art

    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (6 x 24 minutes), £25.48 each or £127.57 the set

    A survey of the greatest achievements in the history of art from the medieval era to the impressionist world. Features the Virtual Gallery - a computer-generated gallery which houses the greatest...

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  7. William Dobson : The Lost Genius of Baroque

    Subject
    Art; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £10.99

    Documentary presented by Waldemar Januszczak on the subject of William Dobson, the Baroque portraitist whose work was bound up inextricably with the English Civil War. Born in London in 1611, Dobson became...

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  8. Shakespeare and Baroque Art (Radio)

    Subject
    Art; Drama
    Distribution
    BBC archive copy not confirmed (12/2014)

    Radio broadcast. Nicholas Brooke , Professor of English Literature at the University of East Anglia, explores the idea that Shakespeare’s dramatic art developed in ways closely paralleled by the visual...

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