ART 102 - Art History II: Audiovisuals

The set features ten complete programs, all illustrated by selected masterpieces of architecture, sculpture, and painting and are filmed on location throughout Europe. The programs cover the great Baroque and Rococo works, classic art and sculpture from the Romans and ancient Greeks, Christian, Byzantine, and Gothic art, the trends of the 19th and 20th centuries, and more.

Reveals the stories behind the creation of significant art works of painters Renoir, Van Gogh, and Seurat.

Focusing on eight iconic works of art, this series reveals the history of visual imagination through the ages. A combination of reconstruction, photography and storytelling transport the viewer back to the intense moments when great works were conceived and born: the murderous, messianic world of Baroque Rome; opulent, parvenu Amsterdam; paranoid, revolutionary Paris; Victorian England suffocating beneath riches and righteousness; the madhouses and brothels of Provence; the carnage of civil war Spain; 1950s New York, caught between Cold War jitters and Manhattan glitter. In each place, a great artist is backed into a corner, facing a crisis, given a chance to confound his rivals, enemies and critics one more time.

Meet diverse contemporary artists through revealing profiles that take viewers behind the scenes into artists' studios, homes, and communities to provide an intimate view of their lives, work, sources of inspiration and creative processes.