"Based on the television series which is a VPS-John Brabourne production in association with Sotheby's and W.H. Smith."

Kenneth Clark discusses thirteen important artists representing one of the greatest periods in the history of art -- the second half of the eighteenth century to the middle of the nineteenth century. During the second half of the eighteenth century, when the spirit of revolution was rising through Europe, a division appeared in all the arts, deeper and more radical than any that had preceded. Rivalry arose between to schools of painting, the Romantic and the Classic. To trace this "rebellion" Kenneth Clark brings into focus the artistic creativity of thirteen artists -- David, Goya, Piranesi, Fuseli, Blake, Ingres, Gericault, Delacroix, Turner, Constable, Millet, Degas and Rodin -- all but one successful and influential, all part of the European movement. Conflicts in styles, changes of contemporary opinion, influences in the lives of the artists, and the events which inspired their works are discussed with knowledge and understanding. -- From publisher's description.

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