S1E7:Radiance
Civilizations
12 Apr 201853 minTV-PG
Simon Schama starts his meditation on color and civilization with the great Gothic cathedrals of Amiens and Chartres. He then moves to 16th-century Venice, where masterpieces by Bellini and Titian contested the assumption that drawing would always be superior to coloring. But he finds that if light and color could open the gates of ecstasy, it could also drop art into the abyss.
