Civilizations

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Documentary, Historical

March 1st, 2018

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Civilizations Season 1 Episodes

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The Vital Spark

March 1st, 2018

As the world changed thoroughly, industrialized, globalizing, science-driven, art was to follow and even striving to lead. Instead of serving rich and powerful patrons, many artists would ...

The Cult of Progress

March 1st, 2018

The world changed as it adopted the principles of Enlightenment -especially after the American and French revolutions- and was physically transformed by industrialization, stressing reason ...

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Radiance

March 1st, 2018

Throughout art history, achieving radiance by color and light interacting has played major part. Colorite has its own history, linked to the symbolical meaning and material composition of ...

First Contact

March 1st, 2018

Art plays a major part in recording or even shaping the cultural and general contacts between societies and their civilizations. Sometimes it testifies to the lack of knowledge about ...

The Triumph of Art

March 1st, 2018

The fifth film in Civilisations goes east and west with Simon Schama: to Papal Rome but also to Ottoman Istanbul and Mughal Lahore and Agra.

Picturing Paradise

March 1st, 2018

Religion is a major domain in art history, possibly from the start in cave paintings, with cosmogony, cultic and magical purposes, votive and funeral, even political practices. It could ...

Paradise on Earth

March 1st, 2018

Simon Schama looks into the artistic history of depictions of landscapes, both natural or idealized and man-altered. While often represented ad background, nature would only become a full ...

How Do We Look

March 1st, 2018

The role of portraits, paintings and sculptures in forming early civilizations. Examples include the Olmecs, ancient Eygpt, the Greeks, the Qin Dynasty and the Romans.

The Second Moment of Creation

March 1st, 2018

Historian Simon Schama claims art is an essential part of civilization in general and each one's identity. A retired Iraqi archaeology director preferring decapitation by ISIS to betraying ...