Product Details

• Directors: Gaston Schoukens
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: View Video
• VHS Release Date: July 30, 1996
• Run Time: 30 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: 630241878X
• Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #50,693 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)

Editorial Reviews

Martie Zad, The Washington Post

you’ve got A PRICELESS PARADE OF BEAUTY AND KNOWLEDGE- a refreshing break from rented two-star movies…WORTH THE PRICE

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The year was 1436. The place: Florence. The cathedral: Santa Maria del Fiore.

All Florentine eyes looked up to the mighty dome that Brunelleschi alone had successfully devised to cap the cathedral roof. With his master achievement Florence took on its characteristic landscape and led the Western World into the light of the Renaissance. For the next 100 years Florence was to be the cradle of rebirth in art, architecture and philosophy. Seminal figures like Michelangelo, Botticelli, Ghiberti, Cellini, Lorenzo de Medici and Leonardo da Vinci flourished and brought forth the treasures of Western Civilization: The David, The Baptistry Doors, Giotto's Bell Tower, the Pazzi Chapel, the Medici and Uffizi palace, the Birth of Venus.

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29 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Very Dissapointing!, November 6, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Florence: Cradle of the Renaissance [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The picture quality is that of a tourist learning to operate his or her new video camera. So many close ups of important pieces of art were out of focus.

The narrator's accent reminded me of Eliza Doolittle's affected speech from My Fair Lady and was very annoying. The narration was poorly written, redundant and boring.

I begrudgingly gave this one star because the system would not allow me to input less than one.