Civilisation; 8-Light of Experience Pt. I

Duration: 26 min

Creator: Time-Life

Color: color

Description: Pictures the Seventeenth Century Dutch painters Rembrandt, Frans Hals, Vermeer, and Saenredam dominating the period because the Dutch first grasped the revolutionary change in thought that replaced divine authority with experience, experiment and observation. Shows that the spirit of free enterprise began to make its influence felt, and men such as Christopher Wren, Newton and others make their appearance.

Metadata Source:Catalog of Classroom Teaching Films for Georgia Schools, No. 10 (Georgia Department of Education)