Composer Howard Goodall traces the development of music from the religious 'Gregorian' chant to the growth of...
Dr James Fox traces the story of how the arrival of a few foreign artists in the 16th century sparked a cultural revo...
Dr James Fox examines the Elizabethans' love of codes and complexity, and the cultural revolution sparked by an age of e...
Simon Schama explores the depiction of nature. Simon discovers that landscape painting is seldom a straightforward description of obser...
Howard Goodall looks at the age in which composers went from being the paid servants of pri...
Dr James Fox explores how tension between two cultures - one courtly and European, one home-grown and vital - helped bring...
Professor Mary Beard explores the controversial topic of religion and art. How, and at what cost, do different religions make the unseen ...
Simon Schama examines how traditions developed in the years following the Renaissances.
Simon Schama starts his meditation on colour and civilisation with the great Gothic cathedrals of Amiens and Chartres. He then moves to 16th-cent...
Sam Willis traces the story of the famous trade route. He explores Venice's Renaissance architecture and art before travelling to the beginning of ...
Using the latest 3D scanning technology, Alexander Armstrong and Dr Michael Scott explore the romantic city of Florence.
Galileo's ideas challenging views of the world.
Using the latest 3D scanning technology, Alexander Armstrong and Dr Michael Scott explore the watery wonderland of Venice.
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