S1E12: The Fallacies of Hope

11 May 196950 minTV-PG

The storming of the Bastille and the subsequent French Revolution led not to freedom but to the Terror, the dictatorship of Napoleon and the dreary bureaucracies of the 19th century. Kenneth Clark continues his history of civilization by tracing the progressive disillusionment of the artists of the Romantic movement through the music of Beethoven, the poetry of Byron and the sculpture of Rodin.