| Description |
8 videodiscs (approximately 1440 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 4 course guidebooks (22 cm.). |
| Series |
The great courses |
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Great courses (DVD)
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| System Details |
DVD. |
| Note |
Title from disc surface. |
| Performer |
Lecturer, William Kloss, Smithsonian Associates, Smithsonian Institution. |
| Note |
Course number 7100. |
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Forty eight lectures (30 min. ea.). |
| Bibliography |
Bibliographical references included in course guidebook. |
| Summary |
This 48 lecture series surveys the great movements of European painting, sculpture, and architecture from the age of Charlemagne to the onset of World War II. |
| Contents |
Pt. 1. Disc 1. Lectures 1-6. Approaches to European art -- Carolingian and Ottonian art -- Romanesque sculpture and architecture -- Gothic art in France -- Gothic art in Germany and Italy -- Giotto and the Arena Chapel, Pt. 1 -- Pt. 1. Disc 2. Lectures 7-12. Giotto and the Arena Chapel, Pt. 2. -- Duccio and the Maestà -- Sienese art in the 14th century -- The Black Death and the international style -- Early Renaissance sculpture in Florence -- Early Renaissance architecture in Florence. |
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Pt. 2. Disc 3. Lectures 13-18. Masaccio and Early Renaissance painting -- Jan van Eyck and Northern Renaissance art -- Northern Renaissance altarpieces -- Piero della Francesca in Arezzo -- Sandro Botticelli -- Andrea Mantegna and Giovanni Bellini -- Pt. 2. Disc 4. Lectures 19-24. High Renaissance painting in Venice -- The High Renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci -- The High Renaissance, Raphael -- The High Renaissance, Michelangelo -- Albrecht ̈Dürer and German Renaissance art -- Riemenschneider and Grünewald. |
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Pt. 3. Disc 5. Lectures 25-30. Netherlandish art in the 16th century -- Pieter Bruegel the Elder -- Mannerism and the late work of Michelangelo -- Annibale Carracci and the reform of art -- Caravaggio -- Italian Baroque painting in Rome -- Pt. 3. DIsc 6. Lectures 31-36. Gian Lorenzo Bernini -- Peter Paul Rubens -- Dutch painting in the 17th century -- Rembrandt -- Poussin and Claude, the allure of Rome -- Baroque painting in Spain. |
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Pt. 4. Disc 7. Lectures 37-42. Louis XIV and Versailles French art in the 18th century -- Neoclassicism and the birth of Romanticism -- Romanticism in the 19th century -- Realism, from Daumier to Courbet -- Manet and Monet, the birth of Impressionism -- Pt. 4. Disc 8. Lectures 43-48. Monet and Degas -- Renoir, Pissarro, and Cézanne -- Beyond Impressionism, from Seurat to Matisse -- Cubism and early modern painting -- Modern sculpture, Rodin and Brancusi -- Art between two wars, Kandinsky to Picasso. |
| Language |
English dialogue. |
| Note |
GMD: videorecording. |
| Local Note |
AVONDVD |
| Subject |
Art, European -- History.
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| Added Author |
Teaching Company.
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| ISBN |
1598030906: $109.95 |
| Music No. |
7100 Teaching Company |
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