Second Moment of Creation • 2018 • episode "1/10" • Civilisations

Category: History

A look at the formative role art and imagination have played in the forging of humanity.

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Civilisations • 2018 • 5 episodes •

Second Moment of Creation
58:59
Second Moment of Creation

A look at the formative role art and imagination have played in the forging of humanity.

2018 • History

Picturing Paradise
58:59
Picturing Paradise

Simon Schama explores one of our deepest artistic urges - the depiction of nature. Simon discovers that landscape painting is seldom a straightforward description of observed nature - rather it is a projection of dreams and idylls, as well as of escapes and refuges from human turmoil, the elusive paradise on earth.

2018 • History

The Eye of Faith
58:52
The Eye of Faith

Professor Mary Beard broaches the controversial, sometimes dangerous, topic of religion and art. For millennia, art has inspired religion as much as religion has inspired art.

2018 • History

The Triumph of Art
58:58
The Triumph of Art

Think Renaissance and you think of Italy. But in the 15th and 16th centuries, the great Islamic empires experienced their own extraordinary cultural flowering.

2018 • History

Radiance
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Radiance

Simon Schama starts his meditation on colour and civilisation with the great Gothic cathedrals of Amiens and Chartres. He then moves to 16th-century Venice...

2018 • History

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