Civilisation

E1 • The Skin of Our Teeth

1. 50 min
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Kenneth Clark looks at how European ideas and art survived the Dark Ages.

E2 • The Great Thaw

1. 48 min
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Kenneth Clark looks at the reawakening of European civilisation in the twelfth century.

E3 • Romance and Reality

1. 49 min
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Kenneth Clark journeys from the Loire through Tuscany and Umbria, to Pisa, as he explores the aspirations of the later Middle Ages in France and Italy.

E4 • Man - The Measure of all Things

1. 49 min
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Kenneth Clark continues his personal reflections on civilisation with a look at Renaissance man.

E5 • The Hero as Artist

1. 49 min
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Kenneth Clark continues his personal reflections on civilisation with a look at individuals of genius, notably Michelangelo, Raphael and Leonardo da Vinci.

E6 • Protest and Communication

1. 50 min
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4. HD

Kenneth Clark investigates the Protestant Reformation in northern Europe, and looks at Holbein, Thomas Moore, Erasmus and the printing press and Durer.

E7 • Grandeur and Obedience

1. 48 min
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Sir Kenneth Clark visits Rome in search of grandeur and finds a city that gave rise to Michelangelo, Bernini and the Counter Reformation.

E8 • The Light of Experience

1. 49 min
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Sir Kenneth Clark's story takes him from the Holland of Rembrandt and Vermeer to the London of Wren, Purcell and the Royal Society.

E9 • The Pursuit of Happiness

1. 50 min
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Kenneth Clark reflects on the nature of the 18th-century music, and on the way that some of its qualities are reflected in the best of rococo architecture.

E10 • The Smile of Reason

1. 48 min
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Kenneth Clark looks at the beginnings of revolutionary politics in the 18th century.

E11 • The Worship of Nature

1. 49 min
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Sir Kenneth Clark examines a new force - the belief in the divinity of nature.

E12 • The Fallacies of Hope

1. 49 min
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Sir Kenneth Clark traces the progressive disillusionment of the artists of the Romantic movement during the 19th century.

E13 • Heroic Materialism

1. 51 min
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4. HD

Kenneth Clark considers heroic materialism and humanitarianism in the past 100 years.