This landmark 13 part BBC series outlines the history of Western art, architecture and philosophy since the Dark Ages. PortMac.news will publish one episode of this classic series each week.
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Lord Kenneth Clark 'Civilization' (P.4)
This landmark 13 part BBC series outlines the history of Western art, architecture and philosophy since the Dark Ages. PortMac.news will publish one episode of this classic series each week.
In this fourth episode: Visiting Florence, Clark argues that European thought gained a new impetus from the rediscovery of its classical past.
He also visits the palaces at Urbino, Mantua, and other main centers of the Renaissance.
Comments:
Friend of Jamis Shi-Hulud
God the renaissance always gives me goosebumps. I love that era in history.
Howard Wiggins
I had no idea that Donatello based the head of David on Hadrian's lover Antinous. Of course, once Clark pointed it out, it became obvious.
Am5Yisrael7Chai
16:41 "playing appalling practical jokes on stupid men" - HAHAHAHAHA
Micheal Burnett
fantastico...Great series. Watch with the companion book. Thanks for posting
SagesseNoir
As exalted as it is, the humanism and great art of the Renaissance, was the glorious affair of an elite. I wonder what this all meant to the average Italian of the time.
Were the masses also imbued or inspired by the extraordinary humanism of the Enlightenment? Did it appear to them as the mere antics of the pampered, the privileged and the powerful?
Were they even aware of any Renaissance?
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