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Artists and Writers
- Broadcast
- 2019 (58 mins)
This episode sees actress Lily Cole examine four of the 20th century’s greatest artists and writers. Lily explores the lives of Pablo Picasso, Virginia Woolf, Alfred Hitchcock and Andy Warhol - finding out...
Civilisations
Episode 1 - Second Moment of Creation
- Broadcast
- 2018 (59 mins)
The first film by Simon Schama in Civilisations looks at the formative role art and the creative imagination have played in the forging of humanity itself. The film opens with Simon’s passionate...
Civilisations
Episode 2 - How Do We Look?
- Broadcast
- 2018 (58 mins)
In this episode of Civilisations Professor Mary Beard explores images of the human body in ancient art, from Mexico and Greece to Egypt and China. Mary seeks answers to fundamental questions at the heart of...
Civilisations
Episode 3 - Picturing Paradise
- Broadcast
- 2018 (59 mins)
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’s a...
Civilisations
Episode 4 - The Eye of Faith
- Broadcast
- 2018 (59 mins)
In this film 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. Yet there are...
Civilisations
Episode 5 - Triumph of Art
- Broadcast
- 2018 (59 mins)
Think Renaissance and you think Italy. But in the 15th and 16th centuries the great Islamic empires experienced their own extraordinary cultural flowering. The two phenomena did not unfold in separate...
Civilisations
Episode 6 - First Contact
- Broadcast
- 2018 (59 mins)
In the 15th and 16th centuries distant and disparate cultures met, often for the first time. These encounters provoked wonder, awe, bafflement and fear. And, as historian of empire David Olusoga shows, art...
Civilisations
Episode 7 - Radiance
- Broadcast
- 2018 (59 mins)
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 where masterpieces such as Giovanni Bellini’s San...
Civilisations
Episode 8 - The Cult of Progress
- Broadcast
- 2018 (59 mins)
If David Olusoga’s first film in Civilisations is about the art that followed and reflected early encounters between different cultures, his second explores the artistic reaction to imperialism in the 19th...
Civilisations
Episode 9 -The Vital Spark
- Broadcast
- 2018 (59 mins)
Simon Schama begins Civilisations with this premise: that it is in art - the play of the creative imagination - that humanity expresses its most essential self: the power to break the tyranny of the humdrum,...