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and he was a man driven to titanic works.<br />
He aspired constantly to achieve the<br />
seemingly impossible, and this he did with<br />
unimaginable perseverance.<br />
With each work he opened up new worlds<br />
of artistic expression: in the frescos of the<br />
Sistine chapel, as in the design of the<br />
magnificent dome of St. Peter?s Basilica.<br />
At the Roman Capitol he created the<br />
greatest flagstoned forum of modern times.<br />
Also, his poems reveal that he was a<br />
difficult loner in search of solitude.<br />
Filmed entirely on location, this informative<br />
and entertaining program features close<br />
ups of many of Michelangelo?s greatest<br />
works.<br />
Item no. : RW00770439<br />
Format : DVD (Region 1, Color)<br />
Duration : 30 minutes<br />
StdBkNo : 9780769790695<br />
Price : USD 50.00<br />
GALLER GALLERY GALLER Y OF THE<br />
MASTERS MASTERS - PAUL PAUL CEZANNE:<br />
CEZANNE:<br />
THE THE WORLD WORLD IN IN AN AN APPL APPLE APPL<br />
Paul Cezanne revolutionized art. He made<br />
painting an end in itself, maintained that<br />
art was a harmony in parallel with nature.<br />
Born in Aix-en Provence in the south of<br />
France in 1839, he is revered now, but it<br />
was not always so. It was the surrounding<br />
countryside that served as part of the<br />
inspiration for his colorful palettes. He<br />
used glasses and fruits in still life paintings<br />
to capture the precision of shapes. Form<br />
and color were fused together. Many of his<br />
paintings were often panned critically, but<br />
were appreciated more in his later years.<br />
This is the story of one of Modern<br />
Painting's most influential artists.<br />
Item no. : PK00770345<br />
Format : DVD (Region 1, Color)<br />
Duration : 30 minutes<br />
StdBkNo : 9780769791227<br />
Price : USD 50.00<br />
GALLERY GALLERY OF OF OF THE<br />
THE<br />
MASTERS MASTERS - RUBENS:<br />
RUBENS:<br />
PASSION, PASSION, PASSION, FAITH, FAITH,<br />
FAITH,<br />
SENSUALITY SENSUALITY SENSUALITY AND AND AND THE THE THE AART<br />
A RT<br />
OF OF THE THE THE BAROQUE<br />
BAROQUE<br />
His legacy consists of over two thousand<br />
pictures - an imposing and contradictory<br />
life's work, with which Rubens, the<br />
disciplined artist and diplomat, educated in<br />
the humanist tradition, transposed the<br />
achievements of Renaissance painting<br />
into the Baroque age and built a bridge<br />
between north and south, between Italian<br />
and Flemish art.<br />
The film interprets the great altar paintings,<br />
the portraits and self portraits and the<br />
famous mythological and historical<br />
portrayals: in his mythological pictures<br />
Rubens incorporated his experiences of<br />
human passions and the dynamics of<br />
nature.<br />
In the Medici cycle for the Queen of<br />
France the painter's baroque feeling for<br />
life is expressed with the greatest clarity:<br />
political activity appears as theatrum<br />
mundi, as a portrayal of a sensibly ordered<br />
world. Life can succeed, evil can be<br />
over<strong>com</strong>e: this is Rubens' message which<br />
he expressed in his art.<br />
Item no. : YC00770374<br />
Format : DVD (Region 1, Color)<br />
Duration : 30 minutes<br />
StdBkNo : 9780769791197<br />
Price : USD 50.00<br />
GALLERY GALLERY OF OF THE THE<br />
THE<br />
MASTERS MASTERS - WILLIAM<br />
WILLIAM<br />
TURNER: TURNER: VISIONS VISIONS OF<br />
OF<br />
COLOR COLOR COLOR AND AND LIGHT<br />
LIGHT<br />
William Turner is one of the most<br />
important English painters of the Romantic<br />
Movement. He was unique in placing great<br />
significance on the atmospheric content of<br />
his portrayals.<br />
In his later works his subjects virtually<br />
dissolve into spaces defined by color. No<br />
one before Turner had placed such an<br />
intrinsic value on light and color, thus<br />
anticipating an aspect of modern painting.<br />
The unique film documents the life and<br />
work of the artist in his various phases;<br />
from his humble origin in the narrow alleys<br />
of London, to the triumphs of an artist who<br />
succeeded in be<strong>com</strong>ing a professor of the<br />
Royal Academy.<br />
This informative and entertaining program<br />
also showcases Turner's many journeys:<br />
he was travelling almost incessantly his<br />
entire life. Of great importance for his<br />
artistic development was the then<br />
obligatory tour of Italy. Who was this<br />
painter, whose later pictures developed an<br />
artistic freedom which increasingly<br />
liberated itself from the prevailing style?<br />
This program seeks answers to this<br />
question at original sites in London,<br />
Venice and Rome and tries to portray the<br />
psychological suspense of an art which, in<br />
its radicalism, was far ahead of its time.<br />
Item no. : MB00770428<br />
Format : DVD (Region 1, Color)<br />
Duration : 30 minutes<br />
StdBkNo : 9780769791210<br />
Price : USD 50.00<br />
HERMITAGE, HERMITAGE, THE: THE: A<br />
A<br />
JOURNEY JOURNEY IN IN TIME TIME AND<br />
AND<br />
SPACE SPACE<br />
SPACE<br />
The unique collections held in the<br />
Hermitage will take you on this absorbing<br />
journey in time and space. The<br />
introduction to the Winter Palace skillfully<br />
weaves in the history of the museum<br />
collection that now dates back more than<br />
three centuries.<br />
Originally established as the private<br />
collection of the Russian Empress<br />
Catherine the Great, the collection<br />
continued to grow with works of art<br />
regularly added, and in the mid 19th<br />
century it was opened to the wider public.<br />
As you encounter the masterpieces of one<br />
period after another you will understand<br />
how prehistoric cultures arose, developed<br />
and died out, then the culture of the<br />
antique world, the Renaissance period<br />
and classicism; each time to die and be<br />
reborn in the works of masters of a later<br />
age.<br />
Music performed by the State Hermitage<br />
Orchestra, the Millennium Chamber Choir<br />
and the St Petersburg Neva-Klassika<br />
string quartet will enhance your enjoyment<br />
as you travel through the museum and<br />
visit the different epochs of the various<br />
cultures on display.<br />
The Hermitage Museum in Saint<br />
Petersburg, Russia is one of the world's<br />
largest art museums. Its magnificent<br />
buildings served as the official residence<br />
of the Russian Emperors for almost two<br />
centuries. Now they are open to the public<br />
and over two million artifacts and works of<br />
art from prehistoric times to the<br />
contemporary period are exhibited in<br />
hundreds of galleries and rooms.<br />
The Hermitage Museum houses a rich<br />
collection of Greek and Roman sculptures,<br />
splendid jewelry, and many of the best<br />
works of Raphael, Da Vinci, Titian,<br />
Giorgione, Velasquez, Van Dyke,<br />
Rembrandt, many other Dutch masters,<br />
French Impressionists, and 20th Century<br />
masters such as Matisse and Picasso.<br />
This film's guiding principle is to reveal the<br />
Hermitage through the history of its<br />
owners as well as to display its<br />
magnificent interiors, discuss selected<br />
collections, and spotlight its masterpieces.<br />
Music of different epochs, as performed in<br />
the Hermitage Theatre by the best<br />
musicians of Saint Petersburg,<br />
ac<strong>com</strong>pany the film and lead the viewer<br />
from one reign to another.<br />
Item no. : KJ00770210<br />
Format : DVD (Region 1, Color)<br />
Duration : 116 minutes<br />
StdBkNo : 9780769791159<br />
Price : USD 55.00<br />
PALACE PALACE OF OF VERSAILLES<br />
VERSAILLES,<br />
VERSAILLES ,<br />
THE<br />
THE<br />
The Chateau of Versailles remains forever<br />
the emblematic symbol of Louis XIV,<br />
whose reign lasted for almost half a<br />
century.<br />
It is recognized as one of the most<br />
beautiful works of art of the 17th century<br />
France. The most symbolic of the rooms is<br />
no doubt the Hall of Mirrors.<br />
During the next century, under the reign of<br />
Louis XV, the Chapel and the Opera were<br />
<strong>com</strong>pleted.<br />
The Chateau ceased to function as the<br />
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