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  1. Orsanmichele (1994)

    Subject
    Architecture; Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (DVD-R, 49 minutes), £34.99 (CM)

    Through a miraculous image of the Madonna, Florence’s grain market and granary became one of the most important and wealthy shrines in the city. Converted into an oratory, it was embellished with a superb...

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  2. Palazzo Pubblico, Siena (1993)

    Producer
    Charles Cooper
    Subject
    Architecture; Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (DVD-R, 25 minutes), £34.99 (CM)

    Analyses the function and design of the Palazzo Pubblico, or city hall, built to honour and beautify the independent city-state. The celebrated frescos by Simone Martini and Ambrogio Lorenzetti provide an...

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  3. Ferrara: Planning the Ideal City (1986 Video)

    Producer
    Robert Philip
    Subject
    Architecture
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    In 1492 Duke Ercole I of Ferrara began a major extension of the city, designed by his court architect Biagio Rossetti. Examines this extension, and its relationship to the history of Ferrara. Shows how the...

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  4. Florence. Part 1 (1986 Video)

    Producer
    Robert Philip
    Subject
    Architecture
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Examines the complex relationship between medieval and Renaissance Florence. Looks at a number of medieval buildings in Florence, including the Palazzo Vecchio, the Baptistery and San Miniato, and shows how...

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  5. Florence. Part 2 (1986 Video)

    Producer
    Robert Philip
    Subject
    Architecture
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    Examines a city block in the centre of Florence, which consists principally of domestic buildings, dominated by the Palace of the Guelf Party (14th-16th century). These include a medieval tower-house, the...

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  6. Palazzo Venezia, Rome: A Cardinal’s Palace (1986 Video)

    Producer
    Charles Cooper
    Subject
    Architecture; Art
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    The Palazzo Venezia was the first major Renaissance palace to be built in Rome. It was commissioned by the wealthy Venetian Pietro Barbo, to lie alongside the Basilica of San Marco, where he was Cardinal...

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  7. Santa Maria Dei Miracoli, Venice (1986 Video)

    Producer
    Robert Philip
    Subject
    Architecture
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    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...

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  8. Santo Spirito: A Renaissance Church (1986 Video)

    Producer
    Charles Cooper
    Subject
    Architecture
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    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...

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  9. Pienza: A Renaissance City (1985 Video)

    Producer
    Charles Cooper
    Subject
    Architecture
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    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...

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  10. San Francesco, Rimini: Il Tempio Malatestiano (1985 Video)

    Producer
    Charles Cooper
    Subject
    Architecture
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    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...

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