France, 1400 AD.

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 430.

________, ___________, a castle-we come to the middle ages, in the time of___________. Now the world was becoming smaller, artists______around the meeting one another-that's beginning what's called rather pompously - an international style.

The very rich ____of the Duke of berry___________title_____middle ages painting. Gently play, happy peasants toil-it's the rich man's view. And that's Duke of berry was.

After a thousand years non-religious themes in art have reappeared. And Limbo's brother painted the Duke's property, castles, lands and peasants ________. The only castle painted by Limbo survives today is______________in the Loire valley.

What do we see - this enchanting picture. Well, what Duke of berry saw ______________________. And one can imagine him in_______church looking at this magnificent pictures. This is an end of august from a calendar of the beginning of the book. And it's a miraculous picture because it gives just what he wants. That's the castle, one of his 17 castles, all ____________and _____-in the light. And here're other courtiers on splendid horses______, perhaps the Duke himself on the white horse__________. Because the Limbo was a great artist. He didn't just give_________________what he wants he give they actually saw. And they saw these fields and the river, and the peasants__________naked, unembarrassed__________-in the water__________those_______courtiers-living apparently, good life. This is august, remember, very hot, they're close to the neck__________look at the women's wastes. The only horses following again________-but it's the rule of the game and even those_________ in the back, there're rules for exchanging love looks. So, it's a very constricted life, life being looked at. Peasants, they're free, they`re happy________better of_________. It's double-level. I find so marvelous _____________I think this one.________. Because at first you're to see it's____________. Here is the lady of the house, the peasant lady warming her indepencive at the fire, modestly averting her gaze of the man of the house, who warming there____indepence before the fire. And this`s ability truly to look without fixed ideas of _________what makes great painting.

The middle ages were actually a dreadful time of war and disease. Plague probably killed Limbo and Duke of berry. In England the first protest caused the peasant rebellion. King Richard II survived only to be deposed and imprisoned. __________today got it by the National gallery was painted for him by forgotten artist, __________. At first sight it's perfectly conventional, but when we take the second look you realize everybody in this picture__________or looking the least significant figure-young king Richard II except that din angel at the back got the idea, and the idea is a political idea, because Richard II was a disastrous king. He was handsome and brave but __________made it_______he had not_______ that makes a leader_________-to struggle against the rejections by his people. For one thing, he didn't won't to fight with the French was greatly upset the English, and at the end, shortly after this was painted he was deposed and died in suspicious circumstances. So we can see what he wants here. He wants to convince himself______-that didn't matter what people thought, all that matter was________thought. You couldn't ____the king, _________ and he's showing all the ___________________even vulgar touch and the angels actually wearing______________the Union Jack_______how really very low class that is. And you can imagine poverty, rejected and depressed, popping this icon up_________________-and remembering that even his people didn't love him _______, the power_________.

In the story so far, we've spent centuries and continents. But in the next program our story becomes focused on one man-his name is Jotto.