How Art Made the World: Art of Persuasion
In this BBC series from 2004, Dr Nigel Spivey investigates everything from cave paintings to ceramics, pyramids to palaces and icons to artifacts across five continents and 100,000 years of history. The leaders of most modern countries exploit a powerful political tool – the power of images. These techniques, in fact, were invented thousands of […]
Art and Architecture of Early Christianity
Waldemar Januszczak shows how Christianity emerged into the Roman Empire as an artistic force in the third and fourth centuries. Early Christians had no art but practised in secret and Januszczak purports the Rotas Square found throughout the Roman Empire such as at Pompeii were early Christian symbols along with the fish and anchor. With […]