April 17, 2018 • 53m
Examine the formative role of art and the creative imagination in the forging of humanity itself. Images and artifacts found in Af...Read more
April 24, 2018 • 53m
Explore the many functions of the human image in art. Portraits, paintings and sculptures, both life-size and colossal, perform a ...Read more
May 1, 2018 • 53m
Trace the relationship between religion and art, which has inspired some of the most ingenious, affecting, majestic and breathtaki...Read more
May 8, 2018 • 53m
See how advances in seafaring and a thirst for trade and exploration sent human beings around the planet. Distant and disparate cu...Read more
May 15, 2018 • 53m
Travel east and west to explore the connections and rivalries between Renaissance Italy and the Islamic empires that experienced t...Read more
June 12, 2018 • 53m
Explore one of humanity’s deepest artistic urges: the depiction of nature. But landscape painting is seldom a straightforward port...Read more
June 19, 2018 • 53m
Explore the story of light and color in art—both in the search for greater realism and spiritual ecstasy. Journey from Gothic cath...Read more
June 26, 2018 • 53m
Examine the rise and fall of “progress” as an ideology, and see how the “civilizing” project that arose from Enlightenment ideas w...Read more
July 3, 2018 • 53m
Explore art in the age of revolution, war and profound scientific change and consider the question: Should art create a separate r...Read more