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Examines the church of Santa Maria dei Miracoli, Venice built between 1481 and 1489 to the designs of Pietro Lombardo. The church enshrines the miraculous image of the ‘Virgin and Child’, a painting by...
Santo Spirito is the only church designed from scratch by Filippo Brunelleschi. Built 40 years after his death, Brunelleschi’s executors had only a wooden model of the design to follow. Investigates where...
Series featuring six of the world’s leading entrepreneurs, looking atthe background history of their business empirea, and through interviews, examins the feasibility and fallibility of their individual...
When Cardinal Eneas Silvio Piccolomini became Pope Pius II, he rebuilt his small home town of Corsignano near Siena, into an ideal Renaissance city renamed Pienza. Today, the city is unchanged in scope or...
Sigismondo Malatesta, successful soldier and self-proclaimed prince, undertook the rebuilding of the existing Gothic church of San Francesco, Rimini, into a new classical-style mausoleum for himself and his...
The priory of San Marco in Florence was rebuilt in the 15th century by the architect Michelozzo, with frescoes by Fra Angelico and his pupils under the patronage of Cosimo de Medici. Examines the...
The Sassetti Chapel in the church of Santa Trinita, Florence, is one of the few complete family chapels remaining from the 15th century with its frescoes and altarpiece painted by Domenico Ghirlandaio and...
One of a series of seven films produced by the National Geographic Society in association with the television station WQED, Pittsburgh. Discusses the influence of Italy on Elizabethan writers. Scenes from...
Roman wall-painting. Begins with the Garden Room from the Empress Livia’s country house at Prima Porta, then concentrates on three houses in Pompeii: the House of the Fruit Orchard, the House of Marcus...
Ostia, the ancient port of Rome, is used as an example of Roman town planning and architecture. Deals more with the second century than the Augustan period. A variety of buildings are looked at in detail.
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