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Considers the relationship between the industrialised north of Italy and the underdeveloped south, as expressed in the paintings of Carlo Levi, author of ‘Christ Stopped at Eboli’.
12: Profiles Belgium, whose success lies in its iron and steel industry, geographical position and arms trade, and also its Eurocrats.
Profiles the life of Italian film-maker Gillo Pontecorvo. David Puttnam and Edward Said discuss his influence on political cinema. Also contains an interview with Pontecorvo.
The paintings of Titian (Tiziano Vecellio, 1490-1576).
Covers Mussolini’s origins and rise to power, the nature of Fascism; Mussolini as supreme opportunist; illusions and delusions; the new imperialism; nemesis. Presented by Professor J A Davis with Danis...
Because the European Alps are the result of the most recent period of mountain building, formed within the last 100 million years, the region is often used as a model for the study of orogenic belts....
Looks at the nature of pilgrimage, in particular at pilgrims visiting the Holy House at Loreto in Italy. Investigates the nature of the miracle in which the Virgin Mary’s house was transported by angels...
Between 1496 and 1538 a major change of attitude towards public building and spaces took place in Venice and development took place around the Piazza San Marco and the Rialto. This contrasts with Antwerp...
Discusses Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne’ (c1510), in terms of the painting itself, the painter, and a palette of colour: pigment, composition and light effects. The figures...
Traces the influence of Renaissance concepts of dramatic settings on modern theatrical practice. Shot on location in Italy at three surviving threatres of the period - Palladio’s Teatro Olimpico in...
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