Understanding Western art Stories, styles, and masterworks
DVD - 2025
Western art, with its lineage from the ancient world to the present, has given us works of genius by the likes of Phidias, Michelangelo, Leonardo, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Monet, Van Gogh, and many more. In the 25 engrossing lectures of Understanding Western Art: Stories, Styles, and Masterworks, you'll explore the larger themes, principles, and expressive currents that tell the story of Western art, and which shed light on its deeper meanings.
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- Genres
- lectures
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Lectures
Educational films
Nonfiction films - Published
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Chantilly, VA :
The Great Courses
[2025]
- Language
- English
- Other Authors
- Item Description
- 2-disc DVD case packaged together inside a larger plastic container.
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Originally released as filmed lectures in 2025.
Wide screen. - Physical Description
- 3 videodiscs (approximately 800 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in., in a container 9 1/4 x 7 in
- Format
- DVD, wide screen; Dolby Digital stereo.
- disc 1. What is art? Duchamp and the Venus figures ; Capturing form: Lacoön & Michaelangelo ; Order and symmetry: the Parthenon and David ; Symbols in art: Ravenna and Chartres Cathedral ; Coloring the rainbow: Kandinsky and Très Riches Heures ; Textiles and women artists: Bayeux and Judy Chicago ; The Renaissance: Giotto and Van der Weyden ; Perspective and illusion: Holbein and C̀ezanne
- disc 2. Stories and allegories: Matejko and Ossawa Tanner ; Rivalry and competition: Titian and Anguissola ; Portraiture: Jan van Eyck and Wyeth ; Light and dark: Monet and Goya ; Puzzle pictures: Caravaggio and Carpaccio ; Mass-produced art: Dürer and Warhol ; Depicting everyday life: Repin and Brueghel ; Love and lust: Bernini and Klimt
- disc 3. Death and sorrow: Bosch and Kollwitz ; Collectors and markets: Teniers and Van Gogh ; Water and watercolor: Turner and Blake ; Self-portraits: Velázquez and Kahlo ; Photography and art: Cameron and Gursky ; Modernism and abstraction: Picasso and Sobel ; Animals in art: Audobon and Muybridge ; Conservation and authenticity: Leonardo da Vinci and Rembrandt ; A final masterpiece: Bronzino.