"Course No. 7544." 24 lectures (30 min. each). Includes bibliographical references in accompanying guidebook. Lecturer: Professor Catherine B. Scallen, Case Western Reserve University.
Contents:
Disc 1. 15th-century Venetian art -- Late medieval painting ; Early Renaissance Italian painting ; Netherlandish portraits and devotional images ; Florence--center of 15th-century Italian art ; 15th-century Venetian art -- Disc 2. Innovation of Carracci and Caravaggio -- Titian and his Venetian contemporaries ; Venetian masters--Tintoretto and Veronese ; Painting for the courts, c. 1515-1575 ; Northern European masters--Bosch to Bruegel ; Innovation of Carracci and Caravaggio -- Disc 3. Genius of Rembrandt -- Flemish masters--Rubens and Van Dyck ; Golden age of Spanish painting ; Dutch history, portraiture, genre scenes ; Dutch still lifes, townscapes, landscapes ; Genius of Rembrandt -- Disc 4. Post-impressionism. Charms of 18th-century French painting ; British painting comes of age ; British and French masters, c. 1785-1860 ; Impressionism in France ; Post-impressionism.
Summary:
Professor Scallen presents an overview of the history of the National Gallery of London and surveys several of its collections.
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