The Sculpture 100 is a journey through one hundred public sculptures made across one hundred years. In 1905, Thomas Brock and Aston Webb began work on their final grand celebration of Victoria Regina, the Victoria Memorial, at one end of London’s Mall.
View Details >>The Victorians were obsessed by the nude in art. For many nineteenth century painters and sculptors the naked body, both male and female, was central to exotic historical fantasies and elaborate allegories of imperial power.
View Details >>The Lindisfarne Gospels is the greatest of Anglo-Saxon treasures and one of the world’s great works of art.
View Details >>The perennially popular paintings of Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) have long been recognised as embodying the sophistication and elegance of Georgian England.
View Details >>Venice is the subject that dominates the later, glorious paintings and watercolours of J.M.W. Turner. Filmed in Italy and London, and produced alongside Tate’s major 2003-4 exhibition on the subject, Turner and Venice explores all aspects of the rich relationship between the painter and the city.
View Details >>The artist J.M.W. Turner is widely recognised as England’s greatest painter. Tate has the world’s finest and most extensive collection of his work and this film provides an overview of Turner’s life and of critical approaches to his art. Also included are a series of short films detailing individual pieces of work.
View Details >>The painter William Hodges is increasingly seen as a key figure in eighteenth-century British art and in its relationships with the wider world. Produced alongside the National Maritime Museum’s spectacular exhibition, this film reviews Hodges’ career and his complex and beautiful art.
View Details >>Shakespeare’s Globe is a film offering an intimate look at the working life of a unique theatrical institution. The film explores a day in the life of this remarkable enterprise: behind-the-scenes preparations, rehearsals, backstage drama and performance extracts from a production of Romeo and Juliet, together with glimpses into Globe Education workshops and activities, the exhibition and tours!
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Matthew Bourne brings his unique take on the legendary 1948 feature film.
Shakespeare’s classic love story is given a novel twist by being set in the dystopian “Verona Institution”.
