Great Artists of the Italian Renaissance

Locations
Call Number: DVD 709.4 Kl Oversize
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 1st Floor 4-week checkout	DVD 709.4 Kl Oversize	4-week checkout	On Shelf

Course transcript books include lightly edited, professional transcripts of the complete course lectures, full course outlines, a time line, glossary, biographical notes, and bibliography; course guidebooks include lecture outline, timeline, and glossary.
Lecture 1. Italy and the Renaissance ; Lecture 2. From Gothic to Renaissance ; Lecture 3. Brunelleschi and Ghiberti in Florence ; Lecture 4. Donatello and Luca della Robbia ; Lecture 5. Masaccio ; Lecture 6. Masaccio: the Brancacci Chapel -- Lecture 7. Fra Angelico and Fra Filippo Lippi ; Lecture 8. Three specialists ; Lecture 9. Donatello and Padua ; Lecture 10. Piero della Francesca: individual works ; Lecture 11. Piero della Francesca: Legend of the True Cross ; Lecture 12. Pageant of life in Renaissance Florence.
Lecture 13. The heroic nude ; Lecture 14. Sculpture small and large ; Lecture 15. Botticelli: spirituality and sensuality ; Lecture 16. Botticelli and the trouble in Italy ; Lecture 17. Filippino Lippi ; Lecture 18. Leonardo da Vinci: portraits and altarpieces -- Lecture 19. Leonardo da Vinci: The Last Supper ; Lecture 20. Michelangelo: Florentine works ; Lecture 21. Michelangelo: Roman projects ; Lecture 22. Michelangelo: The Sistine Chapel ceiling ; Lecture 23. Raphael: Madonnas and portraits ; Lecture 24. Raphael: history paintings.
Lecture 25. Urbino: microcosm of Renaissance civilization ; Lecture 26. Andrea Mantegna in Padua and Mantua ; Lecture 27. Venice: Byzantine, Gothic, and Renaissance ; Lecture 28. Celebrating the living city ; Lecture 29. Giovanni Bellini: the early years ; Lecture 30. Antonello da Messina and Giovanni Bellini -- Lecture 31. Giovanni Bellini: the late years ; Lecture 32. Giorgione ; Lecture 33. Giorgione or Titian? ; Lecture 34. Titian: the early years ; Lecture 35. A culture in crisis ; Lecture 36. The Renaissance reformed.
Lecturer: William Kloss.
Thirty-six lectures of thirty minutes each by William Kloss, independent art historian with Smithsonian Associates, the Smithsonian Institution. These lectures cover the art historical periods known as the Early Renaissance and the High Renaissance, which extended from about 1400 to about 1520. No era of artistic achievement is as renowned as the Renaissance, and no country holds a higher place in that period than Italy. The supreme works created in Florence, Rome, Venice, and other Italian cities by such masters as Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Titian have never been equaled and have established a canon of beauty that pervades Western culture to this day. In this artist-centered survey, many works are explored in considerable depth, while also examining hundreds of different paintings and sculptures by scores of different artists.
DVD.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Great lecturer submitted by amy on July 19, 2019, 10:51am About halfway through this series, I started affectionally referring to the lecturer, William Kloss, as Dracula. He's a bit formal in bearing and there's a certain, well, Dracula-like quality to him, but he has a vast and thorough knowledge of the subject of Renaissance art. His slightly formal demeanor loosens a bit with certain works and certain artists and occasionally he falls into an inspired reverie about a work that allows you see it in a whole new light. If you're planning a trip to Italy and you really want to understand what you're about to see, this is a great pre-trip indulgence.