The worship of nature

Duration: 0:55:00

Genre: Educational | Historical

Year Published: 1970

Creator: Indiana University Audio-Visual Center: Distributor | National Educational Television: Distributor | Time-Life Films: Distributor

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Discusses the fragmentation of Christendom, when a belief in the divinity of nature replaced Christianity as the chief creative force. Highlights the birth of Romanticism as advocated by Jean Jacques Rousseau, Goethe, Wordsworth, and Coleridge. Examines the painting of John Constable, who rediscovered the beauty of the natural landscape, and Turner, whose work anticipated future generations, including the Impressionists.

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