S1E5:The Triumph of Art

29 Mar 201854 minTV-PG

Think Renaissance and you think of Italy. But in the 15th and 16th centuries, the great Islamic empires experienced their own extraordinary cultural flowering. The two phenomena did not unfold in separate artistic universes. They were conscious of, and in competition with, each other. Simon Schama explores these connections and rivalries and examines how art developed in the years that followed.