Inc MI Productions
1) Velazquez
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A portrait of the extraordinary painter who chronicled the life and times of his friend King Philip the Fourth, who built the core of the Prado collection (which today houses almost all of his work), and who, with El Greco, Goya, and Picasso, comprises the quartet of the greatest painters of Spain.
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The 20,000-year-old caves of Altamira are among the greatest and the least known of the monuments of prehistory. Closed to visitors to prevent disintegration through pollution, the caves are known only through a replica located in the Archaeological Museum in Madrid. This tour of Altamira shows the cave paintings in their extraordinary power as they depict the daily life of Magdalenian people seeking to bend animal life to their will, while themselves...
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Almost precisely the contemporary of Leonardo da Vinci, that emblem of the Renaissance, Hieronymus Bosch epitomizes the Middle Ages with its bitter vision of the endless ways in which man sins. This program covers the array of Bosch's work collected by Philip II and housed in the Prado, showing the depth and detail of Bosch's pictorialization of man's ways on Earth, painted in extraordinary and imaginative detail-the more extraordinary because Bosch,...
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Built as a walled fortress by the Romans and watered by their great aqueduct, Segovia began to grow in Visigothic times and came into its own as a rich and powerful city in the Middle Ages. This program documents its history-which in many ways mirrors the history of Spain-through its homes and churches, its highways and byways, the rooms where Alfonso el Sabio wrote his astronomical treatise and where ordinary fullers plied their trade. Segovia is...
5) The Alhambra
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If there is one building that symbolizes Spain-its history, its romance, its mystery, its conjoining of disparate strains into one, single, recognizably Spanish cultural statement-it is the Alhambra. This program, produced by the Spanish Ministry of Culture, provides a detailed tour of the buildings and grounds, as well as an explanation of the purpose and function of the citadel, and provides historical portraits of those who built and modified it,...