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 completely dominate a society and civilization, as in...
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...
Aired: May 8, 2018Religion is a major domain in art history, possibly from the start in cave pa...
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...
Aired: Jul 3, 2018As the world changed thoroughly, industrialized, globalizing, science-driven,...
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Network: BBC Two
Production Country: United Kingdom
Genres:Documentary, History
