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Civilizations

Season 1 Episode 7: Radiance

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 pre-industrial natural (mineral, vegetal or animal)...

Season 1 Episodes:

Episode 2 How Do We Look

2. How Do We Look

Aired: Apr 24, 2018

The role of portraits, paintings and sculptures in forming early civilization...

Episode 3 Paradise on Earth

3. Paradise on Earth

Aired: May 1, 2018

Simon Schama looks into the artistic history of depictions of landscapes, bot...

Episode 4 Picturing Paradise

4. Picturing Paradise

Aired: May 8, 2018

Religion is a major domain in art history, possibly from the start in cave pa...

Episode 5 The Triumph of Art

5. The Triumph of Art

Aired: May 15, 2018

The fifth film in Civilisations goes east and west with Simon Schama: to Papa...

Episode 6 First Contact

6. First Contact

Aired: Jun 12, 2018

Art plays a major part in recording or even shaping the cultural and general ...

Episode 7 Radiance

7. Radiance

Aired: Jun 19, 2018

Throughout art history, achieving radiance by color and light interacting has...

Episode 8 The Cult of Progress

8. The Cult of Progress

Aired: Jun 26, 2018

The world changed as it adopted the principles of Enlightenment -especially a...

Episode 9 The Vital Spark

9. The Vital Spark

Aired: Jul 3, 2018

As the world changed thoroughly, industrialized, globalizing, science-driven,...

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Info about Civilizations

Current Status: Ended

Network: BBC Two

Production Country: United Kingdom

Genres:Documentary, History

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