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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. Age of Van Eyck, The (1996 Multimedia)

    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    CD-ROM

    Introduces the paintings of Hubert van Eyck and shows how they reflect the influence of Renaissance humanism which swept through European painting.

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  5. Giotto: The Arena Chapel (1995 Video)

    Producer
    Charles Cooper
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (DVD-R, 24 minutes), £34.99 (CM)

    Giotto’s fresco decorative scheme for the Arena Chapel in Padua is considered to be one of the cornerstones of western art. Professor Charles Harrison investigates this commission by Enrico Scrovegni and...

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  6. Baptistry, Padua, The (1995)

    Subject
    Architecture; Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 25 minutes), £34.99

    An exploration of the complex decorative scheme painted by Giusto de Menabuoi, which fills the interior of the public baptistry which was commandeered to become a family funerary chapel by Fina Buzzacarina,...

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  7. A354 Videocassette 2 (1994 Video)

    Producer
    Amanda Willett
    Subject
    Architecture; Art
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 60 min., 2001 sale: £85.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Support video for course A354. In two parts: 1) three comparisons of sculpture, painting and architecture; 2) a case study of the funerary chapel Oratorio di San Giorgio, with a step-by-step guide showing...

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  8. Making and Meaning: The Young Michelangelo: Sculpture and Painting in Florence and Rome (1994 Video)

    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 25 min., 1999 sale £10.00 (inclusive)

    Looks at influences on the youthful Michelangelo, showing works by Donatello, Verrocchio and Bertoldo. Also analyses the changes in Michelangelo’s art brought about by his first visit to Rome in 1496....

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  9. Siena Cathedral (1994)

    Producer
    Charles Cooper
    Subject
    Architecture; Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (DVD-R, 48 minutes), £34.99 (CM)

    Investigates the unusual history of Siena Cathedral’s construction from the early 13th to the end of the 14th century. The unusual and detailed history of its construction dramatically portrays Siena’s...

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  10. A354 Videocassette 1 (1993 Video)

    aka: Survey of Three Cities, A

    Producer
    Charles Cooper
    Subject
    Architecture; Art
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 89 min., 2001 sale: £120.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    A paginated stop-start video presenting a visual analysis of the topography, architecture and urban development of Siena, Florence and Padua in the 14th century by systematically following the same chaptered...

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