Renaissance Faces DVD

Four hundred years after the Renaissance we still make portraits, for many of the same reasons as our ancestors - to mark important moments in our lives, to celebrate friendships, and to remember those who are no longer with us.

    This stunning film traces the development of the portrait in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, in northern and southern Europe.

    • Includes oil paintings, minatures and manuscript illustrations, portrait medals, terracotta or marble busts and full-length bronze sculptures.

    • Explains why these portraits look as they do, and how and why they were made.

    • Includes work by Antonello da Messina, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Giovanni Bellini, Sandro Botticelli, Lucas Cranach, Albrecht Durer, Jan van Eyck, Nicholas Hilliard, Lorenzo Lotto, Quinten Massys, Hans Memling, Palma Vecchio, Piero di Cosimo, Pisanello, Pontormo, Raphael, Titian

    Running time approximately 50 minutes
  Region free * Widescreen * English subtitles