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Preview: Season 1 | 30s Video has closed captioning.
Survey the history of art, from antiquity to the present, on a global scale. Programs reveal the role art and creative imagination have played in forging humanity, and introduce viewers to works of beauty, ingenuity and illumination across cultures. Civilizations, a nine-part series, premieres Tuesday, April 17 at 8/7c. Join the conversation with #CivilizationsPBS
Aired: 04/17/18
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.
The Conquistadors attempted to eradicate all traces of indigenous Mexican culture.
Episode 3 Preview | God and Art
Consider how religion has inspired art and art has inspired divine representation.
A spectacular place where the symbolism of the sacred mountain is embodied in art.
Examine the formative role of art and the creative imagination in the forging of humanity.
Explore light and color in art in the search for greater realism and spiritual ecstasy.
