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Sandro Botticelli painted the majestic Allegory of Spring (circa 1482). This hymn to beauty celebrates a prince who chose to unite art and science to raise his city above all others.
29:00'A Colourful Life' contains all the elements that were to accompany the painter in the greatest revolution in the history of art: the leap into abstraction.
26:00When Georges Seurat painted his canvass, he understood that his current era was turning towards a fascinating and ruthless religion: progress. He was determined that art should not remain left out of these drastic changes.
26:00People gather on Sundays to the Dance at the Moulin de la Galette to forget their condition during the revelry in Paris. Representing them on this large canvas was Renoir's way of praising a beaming and undying conviviality.
27:00Gustave Courbet's work is politically involved and provocative. It reveals his support for revolutionary movements, and condemns Napoleon III's authoritarian regime.
27:00This work is full of allusions to the interplay between knowledge and mystery, science and religion, the familiar and the unknown, the inward and the outward looking.
27:00Diego Velazquez's canvas plunges us into the practices and traditions of the Hapsburgs of Spain. The work is a recursive reflection of reality: between model, viewer and artist, we no longer know who is looking at who.
27:00Painted at the height of Rembrandt's career, The Night Watch goes beyond portrayal of characters and transcends conventions, juxtaposing eras and populations in a supreme homage to the freedom and might of Amsterdam.
27:0030 years after the abolition of the slave trade by the U.K, Turner gave us a broader and deeper understanding of oppression. He painted the portrait of an England that embraced the industrial revolution's new economic models.
26:00This is one of Goya's most famous works. A symbol of national independence and identity to the Spanish, it was a tribute to people who fought for their freedom.
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The Painter's Studio By Courbet - The movie throws us at the heart of the Second Empire. A few years after the revolution of July, 1848. Gustave Courbet offers his vision of the society through a critical realism denouncing the authoritarian power of Napoleon III. (From France, in English) (Documentary) G CC 26:11 Expired
Les Baigneurs By Seurat - With this work, the painter invents the pointillism and, behind the peaceful banks of the Seine, seizes by his technique the economic and social upheavals of a time which dedicate themselves without Limit in the religion of the progress. (Ep.3) (From France, in English) (Documentary) G CC 26:19 Expired
Las Meninas By Velazquez - The painter accumulates the vertiginous reflections and the enigmatic echos on the court of King of Spain Philippe IV and reveals us Europe which questions on the place of the illusion and the reality. (Ep.2) (From France, in English) (Documentary) (class tba) CC 26:31 Expired
Quentin Metsys' The Money Lender And His Wife - Combining cutting-edge animation and 3D techniques, this series brings alive masterpieces of classic art and presents each work within a visual time-scale of the period and place they were created. The works and artists are put into sociological and political context with stu...