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.
1. The Second Moment of Creation
Aired: Apr 17, 2018Historian Simon Schama claims art is an essential part of civilization in gen...
Aired: Apr 24, 2018The role of portraits, paintings and sculptures in forming early civilization...
Aired: May 1, 2018Simon Schama looks into the artistic history of depictions of landscapes, bot...
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Aired: May 15, 2018The fifth film in Civilisations goes east and west with Simon Schama: to Papa...
Aired: Jun 12, 2018Art plays a major part in recording or even shaping the cultural and general ...
Aired: Jun 19, 2018Throughout art history, achieving radiance by color and light interacting has...
Aired: Jun 26, 2018The world changed as it adopted the principles of Enlightenment -especially a...
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Current Status: Ended
Network: BBC Two
Production Country: United Kingdom
Genres:Documentary, History
