Athena Art DVD

The face of Botticelli's Venus from The Birth of Venus (1485) seems to be our ideal of female beauty. Here she is again, this time on the cover of Athena's Art of the Western World (2011), a DVD set to be published on 27 September. Four years in the making and filmed at over 150 locations in 8 countries, this tour through 2,500 years of Western art takes you from The Classical Ideal to tripe In Our Own Time. Michael Wood, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in the UK, conducts this tour through Western art (title link).