Dante Alighieri

Civilisation episode 3 – Romance and Reality: Kenneth Clark journeys from the Loire through Tuscany and Umbria, to the cathedral at Pisa. He explores the aspirations of the later Middle Ages in France and Italy, looking at the work of Giotto and Dante among other artists.     Kenneth Clark’s classic 1969 series tracing the history of Western art and philosophy.   Civilisation episode 3 – Romance and Reality   Giotto di Bondone known mononymously as Giotto, was an Italian painter and architect from Florence during the Late Middle Ages. He worked during the Gothic/Proto-Renaissance period. Giotto’s contemporary, the banker […]