Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Every picture tells a story [videorecording] / a ZCZ production for Five ; writer & presenter, Waldemar Januszczak ; producer, Mike Lerner ; director, James Bluemel.

Edition:

Widescreen.

Publisher, Date:

[United States] : Athena ; Silver Spring, MD : Distributed by Acorn Media U.S., 2009.

Description:

2 videodiscs (ca. 187 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + viewer's guide (20 p.)

Summary:

U.K. art critic Waldemar Januszczak hosts a fascinating series that answers some of the most enduring questions in art history. Includes eight great paintings, such as Botticelli's The Birth of Venus, Da Vinci's Mona Lisa, and Rembrandt's The Anatomy Lesson. Features a guide for group discussion, avenues for further learning, stories behind the story, featured artwork, artist bios, and much more.

Target Audience Note:

Not rated.

Subjects:

Painting.

Television programs for the hearing impaired.

Documentary television programs.

Nonfiction television programs.

Other Author:

Januszczak, Waldemar.

Bluemel, James.

ZCZ Films.

Channel Five (Great Britain)

Athena (Firm)

Acorn Media (Firm)

Notes:

Originally broadcasted as on television as individual episodes in 2003.

Bonus features: 20-page viewer's guide includes key points, discussion questions, avenues for further learning, and featured artwork; The rest of the story: stories behind the story; artist biographies; exclusive web extras.

Camera, Billy Rich, Lynn Mitchell ; music, Simon Russell.

DVD; Dolby digital stereo.

Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Contents:

ep. 1. Mr. and Mrs. Andrews by Thomas Gainsborough -- ep. 2. The anatomy lesson of Dr. Tulp by Rembrandt -- The tempest by Giorgione -- ep. 4. The birth of Venus by Botticelli -- ep. 5. Boy bitten by a lizard by Caravaggio -- ep. 6. Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci -- ep. 7. Le déjeuner sur l'herbe by Édouard Manet -- ep. 8. The Arnolfini marriage by Jan van Eyck.

ISBN:

9781598282221

1598282220

Publisher Number:

AMP-8222

Other Number:

369380257

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

242163

# Local items in:

0

# System items in:

0

Call Number:

DVD 759 Every pi

Medium:

[videorecording]