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Women Dramatists 1550-1670: Plays in Performance (2000)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL NTSC SECAM, 85 minutes), £25.00

This teaching video introduces and discusses extracts from four plays by early modern women dramatists: Stephanie Hodgson-Wright discusses her 1994 production of Elizabeth Cary’s ‘The Tragedy of...

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Scenes from ‘A Pastorall’ (1645) (2000)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL NTSC SECAM, 45 minutes), £20.00

'A Pastorall’ written by two noblewomen, the sisters Lady Jane Cavendish and Lady Elizabeth Brackley, is a pastoral masque which uses the rural figures of shepherds and shepherdesses to explore the...

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Impact of Humanism in the Visual Arts, The (1999 Video)

Producer

Charles Cooper

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

Off-air recording, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 59 min.

Examines the influence of humanism in painting, sculpture and architecture. In 9 sections: 1) Signs of Change: compares the frescoes of Benozzo Gozzoli in the chapel of the Medici Palace, Florence, with...

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Most Mysterious Marriage, A (1999 Video)

aka: Mystery of the Marriage

Producer

Cameron Balbirnie

Subject

Art

Distribution

Off-air recording, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 29 min., 2001 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Follows art historian Craig Harbison on a quest to resolve the mystery surrounding Jan van Eyck’s painting ‘The Arnolfini Marriage’, commissioned in 1434 by a wealthy Renaissance merchant. A new...

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Politicised Space: Florence and Milan (1999 Video)

Producer

Charles Cooper

Subject

Architecture; History; Politics & government

Distribution

Off-air recording, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min.

Discusses the way different political regimes require different uses for the city and its buildings. In three parts: 1) Republican Florence: looks at civic humanism and patrician power in 15th-centurey...

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Riddle of the Dome, The (1999 Video)

Producer

Cameron Balbirnie

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

Off-air recording Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 29 min., 2001 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Follows Florentine architect Massimo Ricci as he attempts to unravel the secret construction methods used by Filippo Brunelleschi in building the dome of Florence cathedral. He has built a house-sized...

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Exploring Sandro Botticelli’s ‘Mystic Nativity’ (1999 Multimedia)

Subject

Art

Distribution

CD-ROM

Examines Sandro Botticelli’s ‘Mystic Nativity’, painted in Florence in 1500, using high-resolution imaging to reveal its complex and fascinating layers of meaning. Botticelli’s vision of universal...

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Renaissance Florence: The Art of the 1470s (1999 Video)

Director

Carol Hambledon; Marcus Latham

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 26 min., 2000 sale: £10.00 (inclusive)

Examines the decade beginning around 1470, when the city of Florence became the artistic capital of Europe with outstanding works being produced in a variety of media. Evokes the atmosphere of Florence at...

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Winter Garden, The (1999 Video)

aka: Secret of the Winter Garden

Producer

Cameron Balbirnie

Subject

Art

Distribution

Off-air recording Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 29 min., 2001 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Follows art historian Claudia Swan to Krakow and Leiden on a quest to connect Renaissance art and science. The discovery of nearly 2000 Renaissance watercolours in a Polish library triggers a journey into...

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Leonardo Da Vinci (1996 Multimedia)

Subject

Art; Technology

Distribution

CD-ROM

An exploration the ‘Codex Leicester’, Leonardo da Vinci’s notebook, which allows the user to read the mirror writing in English or Italian; tour artworks and documents, including all Leonardo’s known...

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