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Civilizations
Renaissances
Season 1
Episode 5
Travel east and west to explore the connections and rivalries between Renaissance Italy and the Islamic empires that experienced their own cultural flowering in the 15th and 16th centuries. Both spheres were open to influences flowing both ways.
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Explore art in the age of revolution, war and profound scientific change.
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Examine the rise and fall of “progress” as an ideology.
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Explore light and color in art in the search for greater realism and spiritual ecstasy.
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Explore one of humanity’s deepest artistic urges: the depiction of nature.
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See how art became the great interface when distant cultures met for the first time.
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Consider how religion has inspired art and art has inspired divine representation.
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Explore how we look at the human body in art.
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Examine the formative role of art and the creative imagination in the forging of humanity.