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.
