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Thirty Thousand Years of Western Art, Season 1: The Enduring Classical Tradition
As many ways to make art as there are ways to live
Completed · 56 episodes
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Xu Bing: Understanding ‘Art’ between Eastern and Western Contexts Zhang Zikang: Ideas Will Always Be Art's Subject Liang Wendao: Returning Art to Human Life 0. Thirty Thousand Years of Art Is the History of Human Life 1. Cave Painting: A Bull and the Original Purpose of Art 2. Art's ‘Grandmother’: Enduring Philosophy in an Underground Civilization 3. The Pyramids: The Motive for Creating Art Was Not Art Itself 4. Egyptian Painting and Sculpture: Realism Is Not Inherently Superior 5. The Amarna Style: An Egyptian Artistic Surprise 6. The Origins of Greece: An Aegean Civilization That Enjoyed This World 7. The Idea of Greek Civilization: Humanity at the Center 8. The Parthenon: The Measure of Greek Architecture 9. From Egyptian Models to the Cult of the Nude: The Transformation of Greek Sculpture 10. The Discobolus: Reason and Sensibility in Greek Art 11. The Venus de Milo and Laocoön: The Splendor of Hellenistic Art 12. The Martial Romans: Art as ‘Something to Learn While Reclining’ 13. The Colosseum and Pantheon: Pragmatism and Grandeur in Roman Architecture 14. From Borrowing to Seeking Truth: The Character of Roman Art 15. Realist Murals and Pompeii: The End of the Roman Empire 16. The Only Order in a Chaotic Age: Christianity in the ‘Dark Ages’ 17. From Realism to Abstraction: The ‘Decline’ of Medieval Art 18. ‘Visible Beauty’: Jewel Fever and the Cult of Relics 19. Gothic Cathedrals: The Beauty of the Medieval Spirit 20. A Prelude to the Renaissance: Grotesque Realism in Gothic Sculpture 21. Chivalry and Images of Women in Medieval Aesthetics 22. Giotto: A Painter at the Meeting Point of Two Worlds 23. The ‘Godfathers of the Renaissance’: Florence's Medici Family 24. The ‘Rediscovery of Humanity’: Classical Revival and Italian Architecture 25. The Trecento: Masaccio's Pursuit of Realism 26. Special | New Year's Message: Act without Demanding a Return 27. A Clear Voice amid the Noise: Saint Francis and Fra Angelico 28. A Divine Warning: Botticelli's Primavera and The Birth of Venus 29. Leonardo da Vinci: ‘Oh, Yes—I Paint Too’ 30. ‘Man Is God’: Michelangelo and Raphael 31. Humanity Overflowing: The Luxurious Gentleness of the Venetian School 32. Italy Lost: Mannerism and the End of the Renaissance 33. The Northern School: Netherlandish Art and the Praise of Earthly Things 34. Bosch and Bruegel: Making Wine to One's Own Taste 35. Dürer's Self-Portraits: Reformation and Individualism 36. The Baroque Style: Counter-Reformation and Baroque Architecture 37. Bernini's Baroque: Extroverted Sculpture and Sensory Excitement 38. Passion like a Whirlwind: Rubens's Diagonals and Dynamic Expression 39. Visual Truth: Caravaggio's Light and Velázquez's Color 40. The Dutch School: Human Life in All Its Reality 41. The Quiet Vermeer: Looking at the World through His Window 42. From Theater to Truth: In Rembrandt, Only Humanity Remains 43. Nationalizing Culture: Louis XIV's Splendor and Versailles 44. Fragile, Elegant Rococo: Women's Taste in the Eighteenth Century 45. Eighteenth-Century Chinoiserie: When Rococo Fell in Love with Porcelain 46. French Neoclassicism: Returning to Where Art Began 47. Academies, Museums, and Salons: Why Did the Nineteenth Century Belong to French Neoclassicism? 48. Ingres versus Delacroix: The Beginnings of Romanticism 49. The Nineteenth-Century Search: Romanticism against Enlightenment and the Machine 50. Turner or Friedrich: Two Romantic Paths into Nature 51. At the Threshold of Modernity: William Morris and the Arts and Crafts Movement 52. Lately My Husband Has Begun to Look Forward to Our After-Dinner Walks | Summer Good Fortune