Survey the history of art, from antiquity to the present, on a global scale. Civilizations reveals the role art and creative imagination have played in forging humanity, and introduce viewers to works of beauty, ingenuity and illumination across cultures. Liev Schreiber narrates.
Examine the formative role of art and the creative imagination in forging of humanity.
A Syrian museum curator sacrificed his life trying to save artifacts in Palmrya.
An Early Step on the Road to Civilization
Cave paintings in Castillo Spain represent some of the first paintings made by humans.
This 25,000 year-old sculpture found in France represents the dawn of the idea of beauty.
Athenian vase painters recorded and then re-enforced ideas of what wives were meant to do.
Our compulsion to create images of ourselves is a defining artistic motif of humanity.
Episode 3 Preview | God and Art
Consider how religion has inspired art and art has inspired divine representation.
The Conquistadors attempted to eradicate all traces of indigenous Mexican culture.
