The late Michael Matthews (actor) in the play 'Klaagliederen' (Lamentations) of Gerardjan Rijnders (stage director) 1994; Myron, Praxitiles, Socrates, Plato, Leonardo da Vinci, Apollo, Dionysos, Lysippos, Polykleitos, Vitruvius, Friedrich Nietzsche Sculptures: 00:35 David - Michelangelo, 01:50 Venus de Milo - Alexandros of Antioch, 02:27 Lady of Auxerre - unknown, 02:48 kouroi (Kleobis and Biton) - Polymedes of Argos, 03:20 Charioteer - Polyzalos of Gela, 03:48 Discus Thrower (Diskobolos / Discobolus) - Myron (Roman copy), 04:36 Hermes and the Infant Dionysos - Praxiteles (Roman copy), 04:55 Apollo Belvédère - Leochares (Roman copy), 05:12 Laocoön and his Sons - Agesander, Athenodoros and Polydorus, 06:06 Warriors from the sea off Riace - unknown, 06:25 Athena and the Trojan archer ("Paris") from the Temple of Aphaia -- unknown, 09:08 Apollo Sauroktonos - Praxiteles , (Roman copy), 09:46 Apoxyomenos - Lysippos, 10:20 Doryphoros and Diadumenos - Polykleitos Further: Tut Anch Amon and his wife; rhombicuboctahedron designed by Leonardo da Vinci, temple of Apollo (Delphi, Greece). Nietzsche painted by Edvard Munch, Subjects: classical ideal of beauty, Egyptian - Greek art, coloring of ancient Greek sculptures, body proportions, Apolonian versus Dionysian beauty concept. Literature: Eco, U. (2002). On Beauty. London: Secker & Warburg. Gombrich, E.H. (1990). Eeuwige schoonheid (The story of art). Houten (NL): De Haan. Music: Domenico Cimarosa (1749-1801), Concerto in C major
middle ages, claritas / clarity, mediaeval paintings, lapis lazuli, Renaissance beauty concept, body proportions of children,madonna and child, Ptolomy, Copernicus, geocentric and heliocentric model, Mannerism, figura serpentinata, Baroque, Rococo style, Neoclassicism Literature: Cone, T.E. (1962) Emerging awareness of the artist in the proportions of the human infant. Clinical Pediatrics, 1 (3), 176-184. Eco, U. (2002). On Beauty. London: Secker & Warburg. Gombrich, E.H. (1990). Eeuwige schoonheid (The story of art). Houten (NL): De Haan. Music: Domenico Cimarosa (1749-1801), Concerto in C major, Oboe and strings. Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757), Sonate K 531 in E major.
Works of art (mostly details): 00:15 and 08:32 David - Gianlorenzo Bernini, 1623/1624 00:22 God measuring the world with a compass, from a Moralized Bible, ca 1250 AD 00:42 Angel of the fifth trumpet - Beatus of Liébana, 8th cent.( 01:50 Montefeltro Altarpiece - Piero della Francesca, 1472/74 02:19 Vitruvian Man - Leonardo da Vinci, 1487 02:29 Human body in a pentagram - Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, 16th cent 02:34 On the symmetry of human bodies - Albrecht Dürer, 1528 02:40 Ancestors of Christ - Michelangelo, 1510 02:48 Seated goddess with a child, 15th-13th cent BC 02:52 Isis nursing her child (Horus), 664-332 BC 02:56 Hermes and the Infant Dionysos - Praxiteles, c340 BC 03:04 Human body proportions from Zubek, J.P. & Solberg, P.A. (1954, p. 111) Human Development. New York: McGraw-Hill; after the original of Jackson, 1928. 03:17 Ideal proportions at various ages. Loomis, A. (1943, p.29) Figure drawing for all it's worth. New York: Viking Press. 03:30 Adoration of the Magi (kings) - Christian sarcophagus, 4th cent. 03:34 Salus Populi Romani / Madonna and Child, 6th cent. 03:42 Madonna and Child - Book of Kells, 9th cent. 03:50 Madonna and Child - Berlinghiero Berlinghieri, c1230 03:54 Crevole Madonna / Madonna with Child and Two Angels - Duccio di Buoninsegna, c1284 04:00 Madonna and Child -- Giotto di Bondone, 1297 04:09 Ognissanti Madonna / Madonna in Maestà - Giotto di Bondone, 1310 04:16 Madonna and Child - Gentile da Fabriano, c1408 04:20 Madonna in the church - Jan van Eyck, c1425 04:28 The Madonna of Humility - Fra Angelico, c1430 04:32 Madonna and Child with Saints / Sacra Famiglia con Imperator mundi - Andrea Mantegna, 1490s 04:46 Madonna and Child - Fra Filippo Lippi, c1440 04:53 Madonna and Child - workshop Andrea del Verrocchio 1470/75 04:59 Madonna and Child - Domenico Ghirlandaio, 1470/75 05:03 Madonna and Child - Pietro Perugino, 1470/75 05:09 Madonna with blessing Child - Giovanni Bellini, 1475/80 05:13 Madonna and Child - Cima da Conegliano, 1499/1502 05:18 Madonna of Bruges - Michelangelo, 1501/04 05:30 Madonna d'Orleans - Raphael, 1506 05:33 Body proportions of a child (On the symmetry of human bodies) - Albrecht Dürer, 1528 05:41 Study of the Christ Child - Albrecht Dürer, 1495 05:54 Claudius Ptolemy - early Baroque artist's rendition 06:07 Geocentric model- Atlas Ger. Valk and Petr. Schenk, c1700 06:21 Nicolaus Copernicus / Mikołaj Kopernik 06:32 Heliocentric model- Atlas Ger. Valk and Petr. Schenk, c1700 07:03 Dying slave - Michelangelo, 1513/16 07: 24 Testa ideale - Michelangelo, c1516 07:37 Testa nonideale - Michelangelo, c1516 07:47 Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time / Allegory of the triumph of Venus] - Angelo Bronzino, 1550 08:09 Madonna with the long neck -- Parmigianino, 1532 09:06 Bacchus - Caravaggio, 1596/97 09:44 Boy bitten by a lizard - Caravaggio, c1595 09:55 The ecstasy of Saint Theresa of Avila - Bernini, 1644/47 10:45 The swing - Jean-Honoré Fragonard, 1770 11:31 Cupid and Psyche - Antonio Canova, 1787/93 11:54 The kiss - Francesco Hayez 1859 11:58 The kiss - Auguste Rodin, 1889 12:00 The kiss - Gustav Klimt, 1907/08 12:04 The kiss - Pablo Picasso, 1969 12:07 The kiss - Joel-Peter Witkin, 1983
History of art, Enlightenment, Immanuel Kant, Romanticism, the sublime, the era of disorder, 19th and 20th century art movements. Susan Sontag and John M. Coetzee on beauty. Works of art: 00:02 The Destroyed City - Ossip Zadkine, 1951 (Rotterdam, NL) 00:24 Immanuel Kant - Vernet, 1795 00:48 Self-portrait - Angelica Kauffmann, 1770 01:08 Woman dressed as Vestal Virgin - Angelica Kauffmann, 1775/1800 01:32 Sappho - Charles-Auguste Mengin, 1867 01:50 Le château de la Royère, Nechin - Jean-Baptiste de Jonghe, 1810 01:53 Gulf of Naples - Josephus Augustus Knip, 1818 01:56 The Ruins of Eldena - Caspar David Friedrich, c1825 01:59 River landscape with ruins - Wijnandus Johannes Josephus Nuyen, 1838 02:02 Egyptian Temple - Charles-Gabriel Gleyre, 1840 02:05 Mountain landscape with ruin - Louwrens Hanedoes, 1849 02:10 Summer landscape with the ruins of the Barbarossa Chapel - Marinus Kruseman,1858 02:15 Povazsky Hrad castle - Thomas Ender, 1860s 02:17 Ruins of the O.L. Vrouwekerk, Leiden - Jacobus Ludovicus Cornet (1815-1882) 02:19 Artist and Spectator in Ruin - Samuel Rayner, 1876 02:21 Ruins of Vredenburg castle, Utrecht - Albertus Verhoesen, 1826 02:22 Ruins of the Abbey of Villers - François Stroobant (1819-1916) 02:24 The eruption of Mt. Merapi at night, Java - Raden Saleh, 1865 02:36 The pass of St. Gotthard - J.M.W. Turner, 1803/04 02:46 The Ice-Sea (Das Eisenmeer) - Caspar David Friedrich, 1824 02:57 View of the Sermitsialik glacier - William Bradford, c1870 03:12 The Devil's Bridge - Caspar Wolf, 1777 03:24 Wanderer above a sea of fog - Caspar David Friedrich, c1818 03:36 Chalk-cliffs, Fügen - Caspar David Friedrich, 1818 03:46 The nightmare - Johann Heinrich Füssli, 1781 03:57 Day-dreaming - Jozef Israëls, 1850 04:14 The first ever screen kiss in 1896 (Thomas A. Edison Compagny) 04:24 Rudolph Valentino (1895-1926) and Agnes Ayres 04:29 Louise Brooks (1906-1985) 04:32 Rita Hayworth (1918-1987) 04:35 Marlon Brando (1924-2004) 04:38 Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) 04:40 James Dean (1931-1955) 04:43 Liz Taylor (1932-2011) 04:47 Brigitte Bardot (1934) 04:50 Robert Redford (1936) 04:52 Brad Pitt (1963) 04:55 Nicole Kidman (1967) 04:59 Olympia - Edouard Manet, 1863 05:11 Nude in a landscape - Salvador Dali, c1923 05:21 Realism: The Stone Breakers - Gustave Courbet, 1849 05:24 Impressionism: Impression, Sunrise - Claude Monet, 1872 05:28 Neo-impressionism: Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte - Georges Seurat, 1884/86 05:32 Post-impressionism: Cafe Terrace at Night - Vincent van Gogh, 1888 05:36 Symbolism: The Death of the Grave-Digger - Carlos Schwabe, 1895 05:40 Fauvism: Landscape at Collioure - Henri Matisse, 1905 05:45 Art Nouveau: Giséle - Elizabeth Shippen Green, 1908 05:50 Expressionism: The Scream - Edvard Munch, 1893 05:54 Cubism: Violin and Candlestick - Georges Braque, 1910 05:59 Futurism: Abstract Speed + Sound - Giacomo Balla 1913/14 06:03 Dadaism: The And-Picture (Das Undbild) - Kurt Schwitters, 1919 06:07 Bauhaus: Composition VIII -- Kandinsky, 1923 06:11 Art Deco: Young girl in green dress - Tamara de Lempicka, 1930 06:14 Surrealism: The Persistence of Memory - Salvador Dalí, 1931 06:18 Magic realism: Simeon the pillar saint - Carel Willink, 1939 06:22 Abstract Expressionism: No. 5 - Jackson Pollock, 1948 06:30 Pop-Art: Campbell's Soup Cans - Andy Warhol, 1962 06:34 Portrait of Isabel Rawsthorne - Francis Bacon, 1966 06:44 Woman III - Willem de Kooning, 1953 06:46 The Son of Man - René Magritte 1964 06:49 Four Darks in Red 1958 - Mark Rothko 1958 06:51 Stiched felt - Josef Beuys, 1970 06:54 Weeping Woman - Pablo Picasso, 1937 06:56 Wrapped Reichstag, Berlin - Christo and Jeanne-Claude, 1971 06:59 Cloud peeper -- Marlene Dumas, 1997 07:06 Great deeds against the dead -- Jake and Dinos Chapman, 1994 07:24 An argument about beauty - Susan Sontag (1933-2004), De Groene Amsterdammer, 29 june 29, 2002, p26 - 29. 08:09 About Beauty and Consolation -- John M. Coetzee (1940), VPRO TV series of Wim Kayzer, 17th episode, 2000. 12:31 The Watzmann - Caspar David Friedrich, 1824/25 Literature: Eco, U. (2002). On Beauty. London: Secker & Warburg. Gombrich, E.H. (1990). Eeuwige schoonheid (The story of art). Houten (NL): De Haan. Music: Domenico Cimarosa (1749-1801), Concerto in C major, oboe and strings. Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757), Sonate K 380 in E major and Sonate K 531 in E major. |