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Description
Art historian and critic Andrew Graham-Dixon opens this series with the dramatic story of French art, a story of the most powerful kings ever to rule in Europe, with their glittering palaces and astoundingart to go in them. He also reveals how art emerged from a struggle between tradition and revolution, between rulers and a people who didn't always want to be ruled. Starting with the first great revolution in art, the invention of Gothic architecture, he traces its development up until the arrival of Classicism and the Age of Enlightenment—and the very eve of the French Revolution. Along the way, some of the greatest art the world has ever seen was born, including the paintings of Poussin, Watteau, and Chardin; the decadent Rococo delights of Boucher; and the great history paintings of Charles le Brun.
Runtime
51 min 27 sec
Series
Subjects
- Neoclassicism (Art) (45)
- Art, Classical (40)
- Art, Ancient (22)
- Art (784)
- Romanticism (50)
- Art, Renaissance (79)
- Art and architecture (679)
- Realism (35)
- Art, Medieval (26)
- Art, Baroque (91)
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Films on Demand
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