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An Artist Looks at Churches (1959)

An Artist Looks at Churches poster
Directed by
John Taylor
Genre
documentary
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
14 min
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows artist John Piper as he visits nine churches in Britain, one from each century from the Norman period to the 1950s. He points out the architecture, carvings, sculptures and stained glass in each building, showing how artists have depicted human faces and figures over the centuries.

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