Overview
First broadcast on October 2, 1989, these 18 original 30-minute episodes provide a panorama of 2000 years of architecture, painting and sculpture, and studies the art masterpieces as reflections of the Western culture that produced them.
Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
Season 1 has 18 original episodes, each 30-minutes long.
Season 2
Season 2 has 9 episodes, each 60-minutes long. The 18 original 30-minute episodes are consolidated to 9 one-hour episodes.(1) "The Classical Ideal": The origins of Western art are traced to ancient Greece and Rome.(2) "A White Garment of Churches": Romanesque and Gothic churches and the effect of monasticism and pilgrimage on art and architecture.(3) "The Early Renaissance in Italy and the North".(4) "The High Renaissance": Includes Da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael.(5) "Realms of Light": The Baroque period, including Bernini, Caravaggio, Velasquez, Rembrandt.(6) "An Age of Reason, an Age of Passion": Rococo, Neoclassicism, Romanticism.(7) "Realists, Impressionists, Post-Impressionists".(8) "Into the Twentieth Century" ; Fauves, Cubists, Surrealists, etc.(9) "In Our Own Time": Post-war period, Abstract Expression, Post-Modernism, etc. Pollock, Warhol, Oldenburg, etc.
Key Information
Cast & Crew
Michael Wood
Self - Presenter
Frequently Asked Questions
First broadcast on October 2, 1989, these 18 original 30-minute episodes provide a panorama of 2000 years of architecture, painting and sculpture, and studies the art masterpieces as reflections of...
Art of the Western World has 2 seasons with 1 episodes.
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Art of the Western World was created by Perry Miller Adato.
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Art of the Western World is classified as Documentary.