Hidden History of Wales

Episode 1 - A look at Stonehenge's link to the Preseli Hills, Swansea's medieval beginnings and bomb-damaged streets, plus the secrets of the highest house in Wales.

   

Episode 2 - This episode looks at how laser scanning has brought a totally new dimension to the history of a quarry in North Wales. Plus, the rediscovery of a medieval fish trap in Fishguard harbour and an architect who built his ideal village at Llanfairfechan.

 

Episode 3 - Discovering what may be a Roman villa in Mid Wales, uncovering the hidden secrets of a Renaissance ceiling at St David's Cathedral, and observing the preservation of a major sculpture at a leading Welsh college

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Episode 4 - There's the house that time forgot near Raglan, a visit to the best preserved World War I training trenches at Penally in Pembrokeshire, and a look at new plans to open a visitor centre at Parys Mountain in Anglesey, once the biggest copper mine in the world.

 

Episode 5 - The legacy of a Tudor lord who wanted to turn Denbigh into the capital of North Wales is investigated, and there's a visit to a spectacular cliff-top fort in Pembroke to look at how Iron Age people lived close to the edge. Plus, how Cistercian monks created Wales's first multinational sheep business.

 

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Tim Marlow's Great Artists

A major 14 part television series in which art historian Tim Marlow takes a fresh look at the most important artworks of some of the greatest artists in history. Shot on location in over 50 galleries, museums, churches and palaces throughout Europe and the United States, this series is a comprehensive survey of the history of Western art. Both intelligent and informative, the series aims to provide an uncomplicated and accessible analysis of the works and artists featured including Giotto, Leonardo, Durer, Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian, Bruegel, Rubens, Rembrandt, Vermeer, El Greco, Velázquez, Turner, and Van Gogh.

Director: Phil Grabsky Year: 2001 Country: England BBC

  1- Giotto Watch on Tudou
 2- Leonardo Da Vinci Watch on Veoh  Watch on Tudou
 3- Durer Watch on Veoh  Watch on Tudou
 4- Michelangelo Watch on Tudou
 5- Raphael Watch on Veoh  Watch on Tudou
 6- Titian Watch on Veoh  Watch on Tudou
 7- Bruegel Watch on Tudou
 8- Greco Watch on Tudou
 9- Rubens Watch on Veoh  Watch on Tudou 
10- Velazquez Watch on Veoh  Watch on Tudou
11- Rembrandt Watch on Tudou
12- Vermeer Watch on Veoh  Watch on Tudou
13- Turner Watch on YouKu  Watch on Tudou  Watch on Veoh
14- Van Gogh Watch on Veoh  Watch on YouKu  Watch on Tudou

Other Great Artists from the continuing series include:  Delacroix on Veoh, Goya on Tudou, Piero della Francesca on Tudou and Whistler on Veoh

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The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance

From a base in 15th-century Florence, the Medici family used charm, patronage, duplicity, and ruthlessness to amass wealth and power.

The Medicis also ignited Western history's most important cultural and artistic revolution, the Renaissance, but doomed their own ordered world.

In The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance, this epic drama in the courts, cathedrals, and palaces of Europe traces a family's powerful ambition and a continent's tortured struggle to emerge from the Dark Ages.


Birth of a Dynasty



The Magnificent Medici



The Medici Pope



Power vs. Truth



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