page_title: Civilisation (TV series)
section_title: 4. Man: the Measure of all Things
hierarchical_section_title: Civilisation (TV series) / Series outline / 4. Man: the Measure of all Things
context_page_description: Civilisation—in full, Civilisation: A Personal View by Kenneth Clark—is a television documentary series written and presented by the art historian Kenneth Clark.
  The thirteen programmes in the series outline the history of Western art, architecture and philosophy since the Dark Ages. The series was produced by the BBC and aired in 1969 on BBC2. Then, and in later transmissions in Britain, the US and other countries it reached an unprecedented number of viewers for an art series. Clark's book of the same title, based on the series, was published in 1969. Its production standards were generally praised and set the pattern for subsequent television documentary series. The New Yorker magazine described it as revelatory for the general viewer. The BBC's DVD issue in 2005 has remained in the catalogues, and the 1969 book has never gone out of print.
context_section_description: Visiting Florence, Clark argues that European thought gained a new impetus from its rediscovery of its classical past in the 15th century. He visits the palaces at Urbino and Mantua and other centres of (Renaissance) civilisation.
  Early Renaissance
  Leonardo Bruni
  Perspective
  Jan Van Eyck
  Botticelli
  The Palace of Urbino
  The Court of Mantua
  A Civilised Countryside.
caption: Botticelli's The Three Graces
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