Made to encourage people to visit museums and to show how to mkae the best use of such visits. The film studies critically three pieces of sculpture in the Victoria and Albert Museum; a Madonna and child carved in whalebone by an early Anglo-Saxon, carved in wood by Veit Stoss and in terra-cotta by Rosellino. The film comments on the general characteristics of art in the Romanesque, Gothic and early Renaissance pieces respectively. Commentary by Michael Redgrave.
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Credits
Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
006492
Language
English
Subject categories
Crafts & Visual Arts → Art - Study and teaching
Crafts & Visual Arts → Art museums
Crafts & Visual Arts → Art, Early Renaissance
Crafts & Visual Arts → Art, Gothic
Crafts & Visual Arts → Art, Romanesque
Crafts & Visual Arts → Sculptors
Crafts & Visual Arts → Sculpture
Documentary → Documentary films - Great Britain
Education, Instruction, Teaching & Schools → Art - Study and teaching
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Black and White
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)
16mm film; Limited Access Print (Section 2)