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Michelangelo Buonarroti

Great Artists episode 15 – Michelangelo Buonarroti

Great Artists episode 15 – Michelangelo Buonarroti – Tim Marlow charts the life and work of celebrated Renaissance sculptor, architect and painter Michelangelo Buonarroti, most famous for the extraordinary scenes that adorn the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican.     Great Artists   This major 26-part series takes a fresh look at the most important artworks of […]

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Rodin

Great Artists episode 10 – Rodin

Rodin Auguste Rodin redefined the idea of sculpture in European Art liberating it from the constraints of classicism and created three dimensional forms which pulsated with life and energy.     His masterpiece, the Gates of Hell, is the greatest public sculpture of the 19th century, a work that obsessed him for almost 40 years, and which acted as a

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Romancing the Stone

Romancing the Stone – The Golden Ages of British Sculpture episode 3

‘Sculpture has changed more in the last hundred years,’ says Alastair Sooke, ‘than in the previous thirty thousand.’ The third and last episode of the series tells the dramatic story of a century of innovation, scandal, shock and creativity.     Romancing the Stone – The Golden Ages of British Sculpture episode 3   It begins with the moment at

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Golden Ages of British Sculpture episode 2

Romancing the Stone – The Golden Ages of British Sculpture episode 2

By the middle of the 18th century, Britain was in possession of a vast empire. It required a new way of seeing ourselves and so we turned to the statues of ancient Greece and Rome to project the secular power and glory of the British Empire.     The Golden Ages of British Sculpture episode 2 – Mavericks of Empire

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Golden Ages of British Sculpture

Romancing the Stone – The Golden Ages of British Sculpture episode 1

Alastair Sooke reveals the astonishing range of our medieval sculpture, from the imposing masterpieces of our Gothic cathedrals to the playful misericords underneath church stalls.     The Golden Ages of British Sculpture episode 1 – Masons of God   He shows how sculpture casts a new light on medieval Britain, a far more sophisticated, fun-loving and maverick place than

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