Season 2 - Art of the Western World

Season 2 has 9 episodes, each 60-minutes long. The 18 original 30-minute episodes are consolidated to 9 one-hour episodes.

(1) "The Classical Ideal": The origins of Western art are traced to ancient Greece and Rome.

(2) "A White Garment of Churches": Romanesque and Gothic churches and the effect of monasticism and pilgrimage on art and architecture.

(3) "The Early Renaissance in Italy and the North".

(4) "The High Renaissance": Includes Da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael.

(5) "Realms of Light": The Baroque period, including Bernini, Caravaggio, Velasquez, Rembrandt.

(6) "An Age of Reason, an Age of Passion": Rococo, Neoclassicism, Romanticism.

(7) "Realists, Impressionists, Post-Impressionists".

(8) "Into the Twentieth Century" ; Fauves, Cubists, Surrealists, etc.

(9) "In Our Own Time": Post-war period, Abstract Expression, Post-Modernism, etc. Pollock, Warhol, Oldenburg, etc.