Peter Whitfield: The History of Western Art (unabridged)

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Release Date: 19th Oct 2011
Catalogue No: NA0055
Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Series: Non-Fiction
Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Peter Whitfield: The History of Western Art (Unabridged)

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Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London

Part One – Art in the Ancient and Classical World

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Whatever the answer, it is clear these pictures were part…

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The Civilisations of the Ancient Near East

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Mesopotamian religion centred on a pantheon of gods…

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The Art of the Greek World

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By the 7th century BCE…

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Vase painting was an intimate, domestic art…

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The third great manifestation of Greek art…

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Roman Art

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It was in architecture that the Romans showed…

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Christian Art from the Catacombs to the Gothic Cathedrals

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The most famous of the earlier mosaic churches…

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In northern Europe, on the eve of Christianisation…

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Retrospect

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Part Two: Renaissance and Baroque – Italian Renaissance

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On the intellectual level…

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Architecture

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A Revolution in Painting

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The High Renaissance

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The Northern Renaissance

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Mannerism

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The Baroque Age

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The Baroque churches aimed at a fusion of the arts…

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But what of painting in this age?

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Painting in the Netherlands

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The Rococo

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English Neoclassicism

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Retrospect

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The 19th Century – The Age of Revolutions

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The Forerunners of Romanticism in England

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France: Classicism and Romanticism

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Goya – Psychological Realism

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International Romanticism

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For Romanticism was international…

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The Impact of Photography – America

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In the post-War years American painting came to maturity…

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French Impressionism

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The question about reality and truth in art…

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The Post-Impressionists

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Symbolist Art

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Architecture

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But perhaps the most radical building of the century…

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The 20th Century

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The First Two Decades: One Revolution or Many?

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The second revolutionary surge also came in France…

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The artistic centres of Germany pushed forward…

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Futurism was indebted to Cubism…

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Post-War in Europe

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De Chirico exemplified an important feature…

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American Realism

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American Avant-Garde

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The culminations of abstract Expressionism came…

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Art Back in the Real World

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Photorealism sometimes took a single photograph…

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As far as the smaller installation is concerned…

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Modern Architecture

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Retrospect

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Peter Whitfield: The History of Western Art (unabridged)

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