Religious Art
  
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36 programs
Carved in Ivory
Romanesque Architecture of Alsace
Romanesque Architecture of Burgundy
Romanesque Architecture of Languedoc
Romanesque Architecture of Normandy
Romanesque Architecture of Poitou-Charente
Romanesque Architecture of Provence
Pierres d'Etoiles (Gems of Stone) - N/A
The Master Builders: The Construction of a Great Church
Visions of Light
Duccio: The Rucellai Madonna - N/A
Giotto: The Arena Chapel - N/A
The Spanish Chapel - N/A
The Rinuccini Chapel, Santa Croce - N/A
Siena Cathedral - N/A
Van Eyck, Part One - N/A
Van Eyck, Part Two - N/A
Beaune: Rogier van der Weyden
Buildings and Beliefs
Ecce Homo
Fra Angelico
Jean Fouquet
Guido Mazzoni
Venice and Antwerp, Part Two: Forms of Religion - N/A
Rembrandt's Christ
Rembrandt - The Bible
Via Dolorosa (Stations of the Cross)
Chapels: The Buildings of Nonconformity
Star of Bethlehem
Caspar David Friedrich: Landscape as Language
Victorian Dissenting Chapels - N/A
Religion and Society in Victorian Bristol - N/A
The Victorian High Church - N/A
The Moscow Kremlin, Part One: The Walls, Towers and Cathedrals - N/A
Your Church: A Threshold to History
In Memoriam
This section of 36 programs can be purchased as 35 titles on VHS and one title on 16mm film only.
Television rights and prices on request
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1600 - 1800
In every culture, in every age, art has gone hand in hand with religion, and image-making has had a spiritual significance. This has been true since the time of prehistoric cave paintings.
In our age, an age of growing secularism, art can be seen as charting the anguish of humanity's loss of faith, or even, perhaps, becoming itself a new religion (as the attitude of Lissitzky, Arp, Marc and others suggests). For other observers, the decline of a spiritual dimension in human life is simply echoed by a general decline in contemporary artistic expression.
The films in this section concentrate on the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, when Christianity and art were in total accord, and aesthetic brilliance and intense piety were thought to be synonymous.
Guido Mazzoni
Mary, detail of statue after restoration
From the program 'Guido Mazzoni'
For religious studies see also: What is Religion?, Looking for Hinduism in Calcutta, Two Religions: Two Communities