| Description |
1 online resource (57 minutes) |
| Summary |
Art of Faith complete series is a sumptuous high-definition visual experience presented and narrated by the broadcaster John McCarthy who travels the world visiting the greatest and most significant religious buildings, exploring how the passions and complexities of religious beliefs have been expressed in architecture. Broadcast by Sky Arts and looking back over the last 3000 years, the series provides an insight into how we have celebrated art through faith. With contributions from architects, scholars and worshippers, the films explain the buildings' genesis, laying down the brush strokes of the sites' design, whilst looking at the shared elements and contrasts between religions and the aesthetics of the places of worship. Buddhism offers an introduction to the religion, a family of beliefs derived from the teachings of Buddha who died around 400 BCE. The emperor Ashoka Maurya (who r.272-231BC) was responsible for the first large-scale stone art in India, and he also redistributed the Buddha's relics among (supposedly) 84,000 simple stupas (or solid memorial mounds containing relics) across his empire. It is from this act that Buddhist architecture and art springs. Buddhism looks at the architecture ranging across England, India, Indonesia, China, and Japan |
| Notes |
Title from title screen (viewed June 16, 2023) |
| Credits |
Executive producer, James Hunt |
| Performer |
Presenter: John McCarthy |
| Notes |
In English with occasional Chinese voiceovers |
| Subject |
Architecture and religion
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Buddhist architecture
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Buddhist temples
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Buddhist monasteries
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Buddhist art and symbolism
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Architecture and religion.
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Buddhist architecture.
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Buddhist art and symbolism.
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Buddhist monasteries.
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Buddhist temples.
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| Genre/Form |
Documentary television programs.
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Educational television programs.
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Educational television programs.
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Documentary television programs.
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| Form |
Streaming video
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| Author |
Zuck, Linda, director
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McCarthy, John, 1956- on-screen presenter, narrator, screenwriter
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Wyver, John, producer, screenwriter
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Illuminations TV, publisher, production company
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Sky Arts, broadcaster
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