• 1987
Changing Faces

Summary Channel 4 UK series on the history of portraiture in Britain. View more details

  • 1987

Changing Faces

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Philip Mould

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Genres : Documentary

Release date : Sep 22, 1987

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Production companies : Nimrod Productions

Summary Channel 4 UK series on the history of portraiture in Britain. View more details

Details

Genres : Documentary

Release date : Sep 22, 1987

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Production companies : Nimrod Productions

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Episode 1 • Sep 22, 1987
Finding a Likeness
First in a series on portraiture. What do people expect from a portrait? How important is likeness? Philip Mould shows that likeness was unimportant to medieval man and traces its gradual development, ending with Holbein's portraits of Henry VIII.
Episode 2 • Sep 29, 1987
The Elizabethans
For the Elizabethans, portraits had to be functional - to prove ancestry and loyalty to the crown and to commemorate or celebrate. Philip Mould talks about the importance of symbolism, especially in portraits of Queen Elizabeth I, and shows how an Elizabethan would have read and understood the Rainbow Portrait at Hatfield House.
Episode 3 • Oct 06, 1987
The King's Painters
Painters have been responsible for our image of their period. For Charles I it was Van Dyck; for the Royalists during the Civil War, William Dobson. For Cromwell it was Samuel Cooper, and for the Restoration, Peter Lely.
Episode 4 • Oct 13, 1987
A Face to Order
In the 18th century, artistic patronage broadened due to the rising merchant class. Mould looks at the works of Kneller, Hogarth, Devis, Reynolds and Gainsborough, and shows how each provided society with an image of itself as required.
Episode 5 • Oct 20, 1987
Painting for Posterity
In the Victorian era, the new men of acclaim were writers, poets, musicians, historians and intellectuals and thought worthy of being portrayed for posterity. Pre-Raphaelites and impressionism were reacting against traditional art forms.
Episode 6 • Oct 27, 1987
Portrayal or Betrayal
A look at 20th century trends in portraiture and in the story of the burning of Sutherland's portrait of Churchill. Includes a look at dilemmas facing today's portraitist.
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