A Formative Landscape : (or Why the Greek Islands are of Such Importance to us) [videorecording] / [lecture by] Nigel McGilchrist ; [sponsored by the J. Paul Getty Museum].

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A Formative Landscape : (or Why the Greek Islands are of Such Importance to us) [videorecording] / [lecture by] Nigel McGilchrist ; [sponsored by the J. Paul Getty Museum].

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Nigel McGilchrist, art historian, classical scholar, and author of Blue Guide Greece: The Aegean Islands, describes the joys, trials, and tribulations of seven years of walking, riding, sailing, climbing, and swimming amongst seventy inhabited Greek Islands and explains how the unique geography of these extraordinary landscapes and seascapes engendered fundamental revolutions in ancient art, science, and politics.

1 videodisc of 1 (DVD) (ca. 80 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

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The Getty Villa, located just off the Pacific Coast Highway in Pacific Palisades, California, operates as a museum and educational center dedicated to the study of the arts and cultures of ancient Greece, Rome, and Etruria. The Getty Villa was designed to house J. Paul Getty's art collection when it outgrew his Ranch House, which had served as a private museum since 1954. After considering various options for expanding the Ranch House, Getty decided in the fall of 1968 to build a ne...

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