DVD
The private life of a masterpiece
Edition
Widescreen & full screen versions.
Languages
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Publication Information
London : BBC Worldwide, c2008.
Physical Description
7 videodiscs (1078 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
Reveals the full and fascinating stories behind famous works of art, not just how they came to be created, but also how they influenced others and came to have a life of their own in the modern world.
Notes
"The complete seasons 1-5."
Title from container.
Contents
- Disc one. Renaissance masterpieces : La primavera / Sandro Botticelli ; The Battle of San Romano / Paolo Uccello ; The last supper / Leonardo da Vinci ; The resurrection / Piero della Francesca. Disc two. Seventeenth Century Masters : The night watch / Rembrandt van Rijn ; The art of painting / Johannes Vermeer ; The Rokeby Venus / Diego Velazquez
- Disc three. Masterpieces 1800 to 1850 : The Third of May 1808 / Francisco Goya ; Liberty leading the people / Eugene Delacroix ; The great wave / Katsushika Hokusa. Disc four. Masterpieces 1851 to 1900 : Le déjeuner sur l'herbe / Edouard Manet ; Portrait of the artist's mother / James McNeill Whistler ; The scream / Edvard Munch. Disc five. Impressionism and the post impressionists : Dance at the Moulin de la Galette / Auguste Renoir ; The sunflowers / Vincent Van Gogh ; A Sunday on La Grande Jatte 1884 / Georges Seurat. Disc six. Masterpieces of the Twentieth Century : Les demoiselles d'Avignon / Pablo Picasso ; The kiss / Gustav Klimt ; Christ of St. John of the Cross / Salvador Dali. Disc seven. Masterpieces of sculpture : David / Michelangelo ; Little dancer aged 14 / Edgar Degas ; The kiss / Auguste Rodin.