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This programme comprises a detailed consideration of Ingress and his style throughout his creative life.
This programme comprises a detailed consideration of Ingress and his style throughout his creative life.
| Module code and title: | A202, The age of revolutions |
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| Item code: | A202; 12 |
| First transmission date: | 1972 |
| Published: | 1972 |
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| Duration: | 00:24:19 |
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| Producer: | Nick Levinson |
| Contributor: | Tim Benton |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Apotheosis of Homer; Ingres; Paintings |
| Footage description: | Before a large screen projection of the 'Apotheosis of Homer', Benton briefly outlines: Ingres' sources of inspiration and his aesthetic theory. Quotations from Ingres writing is read over details of the painting. Ingres' characters in the 'Apotheosis of Homer' are identified by Tim Benton. Benton speaks generally of the influences to which Ingres was open in his early career. Detailed shots of painting. Shots of 'Achilles receiving the ambassadors of Agamemnon'. Benton describes the picture and Ingres' early life briefly. Shots of 'Napoleon as emperor' (1806). Tim Benton discusses the picture and its reception by academic painting circles. Shots of 'Jupiter and Thetis', Tim Benton adding a commentary. Benton discusses the nature of Ingres' imagination. Shots of 'Roger and Angelica' Tim Benton's commentary over. Tim Benton attempts to analyse the essential characateristics of a painting by Ingres. Detailed shots of 'Oedipus and Sphinx', Tim Benton adds a commentary and discusses further the essential nature of Ingres' imagination and the characteristics of his technique. Shot of mail torso by Ingres, followed by shots of portrait of Mme Devausay. Tim Benton discusses the paintings and Ingres use of light in his paintings. Further comments are made on Ingres' technique. Tim Benton compares Ingres' 'Bather' with Raphael. Shots of Ingres' painting with commentary by Benton. Further comments of Ingres' style and technique are made. The previous painting is compared with the 'Apotheosis of Homer'. Tim Benton discusses the latter painting's weaknesses and compares it with Raphael's Parnassus: (shots of latter painting). Tim Benton traces the development of a pose in Ingres' 'Odalisque and slave' through extant sketches by Ingres. Tim Benton continues his discussion of Ingres' formal analysis of his canvases, the painting 'Odalisque and Slave' serves as Benton's example. Tim Benton discusses Ingres' later career. Shots of 'Sleeper', 'Odalisque and Slave', 'Turkish Bath' illustrate Benton's commentary. |
| Master spool number: | 6HT/70491 |
| Production number: | 00521_2324 |
| Videofinder number: | 2522 |
| Available to public: | no |
