Renaissance Unchained - Music from the TV Series
Everyone knows about the Renaissance - it’s that golden period when Italy single-handedly reinvented art... except it isn’t. In fact, the most significant early developments in Renaissance art took place not in Italy, but in the ‘barbarian’ lands of Flanders and Germany.
As his four-part series The Renaissance Unchained, arrives on BBC Four, art critic and broadcaster Waldemar Januszczak explains why busting a few myths helps our understanding of a crucial period in Western civilisation.
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Pussy Riot – A Punk Prayer
Emmy Award Winning, in the category of Outstanding Music & Sound at The 35th Annual News and Documentary Emmys Awards in 2014.
Three young women face seven years in a Russian prison for a satirical performance in a Moscow cathedral. But who is really on trial in a case that has gripped the nation and the world beyond – three young artists or the society they live in? Filmed over the course of six months, this film tells the incredible story of three young women: Nadia, Masha and Katia.
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Rococo: Travel, Pleasure and Madness
Following the grandeur of Baroque, Rococo art is often dismissed as frivolous and unserious, but Waldemar Januszczak disagrees. In this three-part series he re-examines Rococo art and argues that the Rococo was actually the age in which the modern world was born. Picking three key territories of Rococo achievement - travel, pleasure and madness - Waldemar celebrates the finest cultural achievements of the period and examine the drives and underlying meanings that make them so prescient.
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Smash & Grab: The Story of the Pink Panthers
The Pink Panthers are the world’s most successful jewel thieves. With incredible unprecedented access, gang members Mike and Lela reveal the gang’s networks, history and human story. Playing out like a noir thriller and using cutting edge animation, the film keeps a Hollywood-style heist at its centre. We also follow the global police forces determined to stop them – with increasing success. But beneath the glitz and excitement of the heists lie the dark truths of the illicit diamond trade and the war-shattered ruins of the Balkan states.
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