• 1975
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Spirit of the Age
  • 1975
  • 50m

Spirit of the Age

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : John Julius Norwich Roy Strong Hugh Casson Robert Furneaux Jordan

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Genres : Documentary

Release date : Oct 30, 1975

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Production companies : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Details

Genres : Documentary

Release date : Oct 30, 1975

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Production companies : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

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Episode 1 • Oct 30, 1975
The Medieval World
Alec Clifton-Taylor surveys the surviving medieval buildings of England, from timber-framed cottages, parish churches and moated farms to the great castles and cathedrals, with a special focus on Lincoln Cathedral, which he considered the finest.
Episode 2 • Nov 06, 1975
A New Heaven, a New Earth: The Tudor Renaissance
Roy Strong explores how new palaces built following the English Reformation gave English vernacular architecture a strong influence from the Italian Renaissance.
Episode 3 • Nov 13, 1975
The Cult of Grandeur
Robert Furneaux Jordan examines how three of England's most famous architects - Sir Christopher Wren, Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor - brought about their English Baroque masterpieces after the Restoration of Charles II.
Episode 4 • Nov 20, 1975
A Sense of Proportion
John Julius Norwich considers the restraint and proportion of Palladian architecture of the 18th century.
Episode 5 • Nov 27, 1975
Landscape with Buildings
Sir John Summerson looks at the architectural era of the Adam brothers and John Nash, and how new ideas of the Romantic poets and painters saw a new relationship between landscapes and buildings.
Episode 6 • Dec 04, 1975
All That Money Could Buy
Mark Girouard examines how the prosperity of the Industrial Revolution and advent of the railways brought the Victorians an exuberance of both materials and style, with a special focus on Sir George Gilbert Scott's Gothic Revival masterpiece, the Midland Grand Hotel at St Pancras railway station.
Episode 7 • Dec 11, 1975
A Full Life and an Honest Place
Patrick Nuttgens investigates how William Morris and the Arts and Crafts movement brought about societal change with the Garden city movement and a renewed focus on craftsmanship in buildings such as Charles Rennie Mackintosh's Glasgow School of Art.
Episode 8 • Dec 18, 1975
Dreams and Awakenings
Sir Hugh Casson reviews 20th-century architecture, from 1920s social experiments through to the Brutalist works of the 1960s.
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