Seventeenth Century Masters

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Contents 1 General Information 2 Cover 3 Information 3.1 The Night Watch 3.2 The Art of Painting 3.3 The Rokeby Venus 4 Screenshots 5 Technical Specs 6 Links 6.1 Release Post 6.2 Related Documentaries 6.3 ed2k Links

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Arts Documentary hosted by Samuel West and published by BBC broadcasted as part of BBC The Private Life of a Masterpiece series in 2004 - English narration

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This engaging series of art documentaries investigates the stories behind classic works by three masters of 17th-century painting: Rembrandt van Rijn and Johannes Vermeer of Holland and Diego Velázquez of Spain. A Dutch military company sets out in Rembrandt's The Night Watch, Vermeer celebrates his own medium in The Art of Painting, and the goddess of love regards herself in a mirror held by Cupid in Velázquez's The Rokeby Venus.

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Why should a painting of a group of part-time Amsterdam militiamen, dressed up for an occasion that wasn't serious anyway, have become the most revered painting in Holland? The full story of Rembrandt's masterpiece.

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Of all Vermeer's paintings, it was probably this picture that he held in greatest esteem. It was the painting he used to show off his skills to customers. A customer three centuries after he died was none other than Adolf Hitler

[edit] The Rokeby Venus

She's been called 'the most smackable bum in art'. Velazquez's portrait of a young woman lying naked on a couch gazing at her reflection in a mirror held by Cupid has an extraordinary story

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Video Codec: XviD 1.1.2
Video Bitrate: 1 920 Kbps
Video Resolution: 704x400 / 704x568 (episode 2)
Video Aspect Ratio: 16:9 / 4:3 (episode 2)
Frames Per Second: 25.000
Audio Codec: AC3
Audio Bitrate: 192kb/s CBR 48000 Hz
Audio Streams: 2
Audio Languages: English
RunTime Per Part: 50 min
Number Of Parts: 3
Part Size: 746 MiB
Subtitles: No
Ripped by: JurB

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• MVGroup.org (ed2k)
• MVGroup.org (torrent)

[edit] Related Documentaries

• Close to Vermeer
• The Private Life of a Masterpiece: The Kiss
• My Rembrandt
• The Private Life of an Easter Masterpiece: The Taking of Christ
• Looking for Rembrandt
• Great Art Series 2
• Rossetti: Sex Drugs and Oil Paint
• Christmas Masterpieces
• Vermeer and Music: The Art of Love and Leisure
• An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump
• Rembrandt: Masterpieces of the Late Years
• Fine Art Collection
• Tim's Vermeer
• Private Life of a Christmas Masterpiece
• Impressionism and the Post-Impressionists
• Masterpieces 1851-1900
• Goya - Crazy Like A Genius
• Masterpieces 1800-1850
• Renaissance Masterpieces

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