History, Art & Culture Documentaries:

National Gallery

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I hoped to see lots of pictures in this DVD, but there was too much talk about internal politics…some interesting comment on actual works of art, but not enough to justify the purchase.

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London's National Gallery, one of the world's foremost art institutions, is itself portrayed as a brilliant work of art in this, Frederick Wiseman's 39th documentary and counting. Wiseman listens raptly as the great canvases of Da Vinci, Rembrandt, and Turner are decoded; he visits with the museum's restorers as they use magnifying glasses, tiny eye-droppers, scalpels, and Q-tips to repair an infinitesimal chip; he attends administrative meetings in which senior executives do (polite) battle with younger ones who want the museum to become less stodgy and more welcoming to a larger cross-section of the public. But most of all, we experience the joy of spending time with the aforementioned masters as well as Vermeer and Caravaggio, Titian and Velázquez, Pissarro and Rubens, and listen to the connoisseurs who discourse upon the aesthetic, historical, religious and psychological underpinnings of these masterpieces.

  • A fascinating look at London's National Gallery which houses one of the greastest collections of paintings ion the world

“Truly inspiring… there's no way you could possibly watch it without learning all kinds of stuff” – The Telegraph

“If a picture is worth a thousand words, then there are at least a million things worth talking about in National Gallery” – The Hollywood

Release date Australia
May 27th, 2015
Movie Format
DVD Region
  • Region 4
Length (Minutes)
180
Number of Discs
1
Genre
Original Release Year
2014
Box Dimensions (mm)
135x190x14
UPC
9312590156847
Product ID
23008007

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