Civilisation Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
Episode 1 - The Skin of Our TeethKenneth Clark looks at how European ideas and art survived the Dark Ages.
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Episode 2 - The Great ThawKenneth Clark looks at the reawakening of European civilisation in the twelfth century.
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Episode 3 - Romance and RealityKenneth 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.
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Episode 4 - Man - The Measure of all ThingsKenneth Clark continues his personal reflections on civilisation with a look at Renaissance man.
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Episode 5 - The Hero as ArtistKenneth Clark continues his personal reflections on civilisation with a look at individuals of genius, notably Michelangelo, Raphael and Leonardo da Vinci.
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Episode 6 - Protest and CommunicationKenneth Clark investigates the Protestant Reformation in northern Europe, and looks at Holbein, Thomas Moore, Erasmus and the printing press and Durer.
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Episode 7 - Grandeur and ObedienceSir Kenneth Clark visits Rome in search of grandeur and finds a city that gave rise to Michelangelo, Bernini and the Counter Reformation.
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Episode 8 - The Light of ExperienceSir Kenneth Clark's story takes him from the Holland of Rembrandt and Vermeer to the London of Wren, Purcell and the Royal Society.
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Episode 9 - The Pursuit of HappinessKenneth 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.
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Episode 10 - The Smile of ReasonKenneth Clark looks at the beginnings of revolutionary politics in the 18th century.
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Episode 11 - The Worship of NatureSir Kenneth Clark examines a new force - the belief in the divinity of nature.
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Episode 12 - The Fallacies of HopeSir Kenneth Clark traces the progressive disillusionment of the artists of the Romantic movement during the 19th century.
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Episode 13 - Heroic MaterialismKenneth Clark considers heroic materialism and humanitarianism in the past 100 years.
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