page_title: Civilisation (TV series)
section_title: 3. Romance and Reality
hierarchical_section_title: Civilisation (TV series) / Series outline / 3. Romance and Reality
caption_attribution_description: English: The disciple on the left, who wounds a soldier with his knife, is Saint Peter.
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: Beginning at a castle in the Loire and then travelling through the hills of Tuscany and Umbria to the cathedral baptistry at Pisa, Clark examines the aspirations and achievements of the later Middle Ages in 14th century France and Italy.
  The Gothic Spirit
  Courtly Love
  The Siege of the Castle of Love
  The Duke of Berry
  St Francis of Assisi
  Civic Life
  Giotto
  Dante and Pisano.
caption: Giotto's The Kiss of Judas
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