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Survey the history of art, from antiquity to the present, on a global scale. Civilizations reveals the role art and creative imagination have played in forging humanity, and introduce viewers to works of beauty, ingenuity and illumination across cultures.
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Venetians Embrace Color Over the Drawn Line
For Renaissance art theorists, drawing always came before color. But Venetians see art and the world quite differently.
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Venetians Embrace Color Over the Drawn Line
1m 56s
For Renaissance art theorists, drawing always came before color. But Venetians see art and the world quite differently.
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Color and Light
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Explore the story of light and color in art - both in the search for greater realism and spiritual ecstasy. Journey from G
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Color and Light
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Explore the story of light and color in art - both in the search for greater realism and spiritual ecstasy. Journey from G
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Goya's Harmony and Chaos
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In his 60s, Goya abandoned his role as court artist to bare witness to the irrational forces unleashed by Napoleon's invas
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Japan's 18th Century Commercial Art Revitalizes Color
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Ukiyo-e began with only a few colors, but combined them in increasingly sophisticated ways to create vivid depictions of a
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Three Aspects of the Absolute
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Out of the absolute of Hindu metaphysics comes the nearest visualisation you can get to of a trance.
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