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Rick Steves’ Europe: Art of the High Middle Ages

Season 12 Episode 1206 | 25m 36s

As Europe passed A.D. 1000, its growing prosperity was reflected in soaring Gothic cathedrals graced with colorful altarpieces, lacy stonework, and radiant stained glass. We visit luxurious castles to see exquisite tapestries showing a new secular love of worldly pleasures and, end in Italy, where pioneering artists like Giotto were mastering realism and pointing the way to the future of art.

Aired: 09/30/23 | Expires: 01/03/24
Distributed nationally by American Public Television
Extras
The little-known story of the deadly 1898 race massacre and coup d’etat in Wilmington, NC.
James Supp: 1941 Willie Sutton Prison-escape Head & Hand
Kevin Zavian: Red Diamond Ring
Laura Woolley: Helen Hayes's "Verdura for Chanel" Cuff, ca. 1930
Leila Dunbar: Walter Johnson-signed Baseball/Babe Ruth & Wagner-signed Baseball
Extraordinary Find: 1945 Gertrude Abercrombie Surrealist Painting
Simeon Lipman: 1917 Boston Red Sox Baseball Calendar
Extraordinary Find: Louis Rice-designed Skyscraper Coffee & Tea Service, ca. 1928
Travis Landry: 1964 Aurora Plastics Godzilla Model
Extraordinary Find: 1655 Shakespeare "King Lear" 3rd Quarto Edition
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Greece’s timeless art: Golden Age temples, alluring Venuses, and exuberant Winged Victory.
We marvel at Stone Age cave paintings, mighty megaliths, and mysterious goddesses.
Early Europeans produce diverse art: from Christians to Muslims and Byzantines to Vikings.
Roaming Europe, we admire stately Neoclassical buildings and dramatic Romantic paintings.
From Portugal to Germany, booming economies and new technologies produce exquisite art.
We marvel at Baroque’s over-the-top churches, palaces, bubbly fountains, and theatric art.
The turbulent century and its rule-breaking art—Picasso, Surrealism and edgy architecture.
Shimmering Impressionist canvases by Monet and Renoir, plus Van Gogh, Gauguin and more.
Florence’s bold “rebirth” is powered by the genius of Leonardo, Rafael, and Michelangelo.
The grand cities of ancient Rome’s vast empire and majestic churches of its fall.