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Films to Buy
- The Age of Rubens
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- Matthew Merian
- Mexico: The Grandeur of New Spain
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- Claude*
- Via Dolorosa (Stations of the Cross)
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- Antoine Watteau: The Melancholia of Pleasure
- Star of Bethlehem
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- The Hand of Adam
- Royal Rococo
Matthew Merian
European Engraver and Historian
15 minutes, black and white, age range: 12 - adult, #290
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Copperplate engraving is an art that has almost been forgotten; Matthew Merian was its master. During a working life that almost exactly spanned the Thirty Years War, he produced thousands of engravings, filling thick portfolios with scenes of Europe and its towns, its people and its history - a record of a world on the brink of its own destruction.
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Credits
Director: Th N Blomberg
Original music: Horst Dempwolff
Awards
International Status, German Government
Highly Commended, German Center for Film Classification
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