S1E8: The Light of Experience

13 Apr 196949 minTV-G

Kenneth Clark explores how new worlds in space and in the world around us, revealed by the telescope and microscope, revitalized 17th century civilization. New realism in the Dutch paintings of Rembrandt took the observation of human character to a new stage of development. Clark then travels from the Holland of Vermeer to the London of Wren, Purcell, and the Royal Society.