You are what this country lacks in teachers, humour, knowledge, compassion empathy, yes enthusiasm, and teaching! I am old now but being retired and have time to watch this, my world has opened up to unimaginable horizons!! God bless "You Tube"
Teaching?! I didn't learn anything about art. Sounds like he's reading directly from Wikipedia. Maybe he should waste less time walking around the woods and actually do some research and tell us more about the actual art.
Waldemar, thank you so much for this channel. All of your content is fantastic. I've fallen down the rabbit hole and watched almost every single show but I have a soft spot especially for this period which is often so shadowy. And you have successfully illuminated it for me and a multitude of others. Thanks again.
I don't think we should think of this work as "falling down a rabbit hole." When we spend time watching these videos, we are doing further research into history. The phrase "Falling down a rabbit hole" implies that this work is not worthy of our time, and I do not agree with that idea. As Waldemar points out (putin) in this video, The Barbarians had a bad reputation as being uncivilized. When we spend the time to investigate the Barbarians, we find that this is not true. Who slandered the Barbarians, and why would they? These are valid questions.
Spokane Diploma Mill, Dixie Randock, 2011 Spokane Review. In light of this situation, I'm even more convinced that we have a responsibility to challenge our teachers. Some teachers got jobs with fake diplomas from this mill.
The production of these shows, especially this one, is unrivaled! Not a surprise, coming from Valdemar.. But then maybe I liked this episode so much because my name is... Barbara...!
The guy that makes these ‘films’ is absolutely amazing!! I learn so much from his art history films. My favourites so far have been the series on Impressionists, but all his films are excellent.
@@anthonypulle8039 yes. I am one of those Goths from Camden (earlier in the video, he refers to us as “oily punks with dyed black hair who worship the devil”) and I am not amused. You would think a bloody art critic would know about the Victorian Gothic renaissance. All black corsets and funeral garb. That’s where modern goths come from, not the barbarian tribes. Either way, what did we ever do to him?
Waldemar, you bring light into the Dark ages. Your programs subtly teach and illuminate and your cheeky humor traps the story in our minds and hearts. Bravo!
As much as J loved Dr. Schoop I wish Waldemar had been my Art History professor. He makes it all so much more interesting. I would have probably changed my major.
Waldemar, we recently discovered you, when I was looking for videos on Islamic architecture. We were enthralled! Your name has now become a household word, like "Which Waldemar documentary shall we watch tonight?" You never dissappoint! Thank you so much. You are so authentic.
definition of erudition for those who didn’t know (quite like myself): scholarship; the quality of having great knowledge or learning. Also, what a proper good name to have 😊heraclitus
"WHAT have the barbarians ever done for ART? OK, they did this and that, but apart from that..." Thanks again, Waldemar. Both you and Bettany Hughes are absolutely top of your respective fields. You are both genuinely enthusiastic, never snarky., can be funny, and are wonderfully knowledgeable. We fans of history and history of art are lucky to have you both (I know you two are unrelated, but no one else compares to you two,)
I love how this video avoids the 'rape/loot/burn' parts of barbarian invasions. Pretty jewelry but lots of dead bodies and destroyed cities in their wake.
I love this series and presenter which is the only reason I watch it. The constant commercials are beyond annoying and disruptive, and after checking into the British network that makes these I discovered it's a corporate entity trying to unseat the BBC's prominence. Another reason to support publicly funded/non-commercial programming. Same quality minus commercial interruption.
@@robliefeld2646 Your video gave me insight! Shows how things perpetually rise and fall, same things are going on now, just different names and guises. Your video is very well made, so dense with info, such a pleasure to watch, thanks once again!
From an eldergoth who loves history and art, respectfully: we are not satanists :) Although I hace slightly expected this to be said. Apart from this, I love this series. :)
As an eldergoth myself , specifically a Camden goth, you took his insults with much greater class and aplomb than I did. I’m a bit disappointed that Waldemar seems ignorant of the entire Victorian Gothic renaissance period…. But mostly that he called us oily 😂
He gets the reference to Germans as 'Huns' wrong. It was the Kaiser himself who told his soldiers to fight 'like Huns.' The Allies just picked it up and ran with it.
He gets a lot of things wrong. Like he says Barbara means Barbarian, when he has himself said it was merely 'foreign' In a doc on the Arnolfini Marriage he rewrites the whole painting, with a total story that has no credence whatsoever. All about the 'Bride' being pregnant and dying in childbirth and this being the 'husbands' memorial to her. No evidence, whatsoever, Just W off on one of his fantasy trips again. Another documentary remade the dress, proved how it was a simple Bling thing, and she was Not pregnant. It was the Frock! But he's a bloke, what does he know about fashion?
Certainly an upgrade from what my history professor said. "The Goths were fleeing from a tiny, yellowish people!" That was 50 years ago. And you dared not get him started on the Turks. He was a tenured professor at a university many would recognize too. His generation was oddly still grieving the fall of Rome. Thus you can only imagine just how refreshing watching this documentary was for me. Thank you!
Hey Waldemar, Another thing that you could have mentioned is that the Vandals named part of Spain after itself. The lovely Andalucia is named after the Vandals. Great movies!
I know what you mean... But it must be horrendously expensive to produce these videos oh, so I can put up with the ads... But you're right oh, there are a lot of them!
THe section on the Vandals makes all kinds fo jumps. They are described as "farmers" and then are conquering. The mosaics seem to be attributed o them but it's the Carthaginian artists who were mosaics. The fact that the Vandals and the other barbarians wanted to be like the ROmans meant that the Roman culture was the stronger one
I would love to see Waldemar do a series on Fantasy and Science Fiction Illustration from the 1700's to the present day. What would he think of Frank Frazetta, for example...
Back in the 1960s I was in Honors History. For the Russian History unit we had to choose a republic of the Soviet Union on which to research and report. I chose Kazakhstan in part because of pictures I had seen of the artwork produced by the nomadic, ancestral people of the area.
Invigorating but you only touched the tip of the Gothic and Suevi art in Spain without the Celtic Art you didn't complete the "Barbaric" in this such a rich patrimony. I'm so interested in the Steppe's cultures and Arts modelled around their nomadic or semi-nomadic lives.
I love his programs and, since I'm not the only one, I guess that's why there's SO MANY ADVERTS! Put 5 at the start if you like, RU-vid, hell, 10, but not 1 almost every minute throughout the bloody show!
Waldemar, please don't stop making these amazing documentaries. Your videos helped me to survive Covid lockdown, survive the disease, and come out of it all understanding so much about pictorial art that I had never noted before. I watch and watch again your videos. God Bless you.
The presenter likes dramatic, scary scenes... I can just hear him thinking, "I hope these barbarian horsemen don't trample me to a bloody pulp..." Then, "Oh well, at least I'll get a hero's send off to Valhalla."
You know if you offered to hug those Goths in your home town I’ld bet 2 things 1) they’ll give the best and biggest hugs 2)they’re more like the original Goths then you realize
There's something Waldemar does not mention. The Greeks called these people "Barbarians" because the Barbarians had no organized military. They would run up, one at a time, and take a swipe at a Greek soldier, then run away. They ran out into the uncivilized forest, where their people made guteral sounds like sheep: " BaaBaa." I learned this in a youtube about Hadrian's wall.
@@Dunge0n Thank you for sharing that information. Do you happen to know which language interprets the word Barbarian as to mean Bearded? I've found this to be a common problem. A certain epithet becomes common. When we talk to other cultures about that epithet, we frequently find that this epithet has origins in more than one language.
Remarkably beautiful. The Huns had not at all been nomadic if they smelted gold. They had to have a labor-process of converting Roman gold into art objects of gold implying they were settled and the reshaping of the heads, same with ancient Maya, a ritualism implies settlements. The artistry and work itself of the gold cups and bowls are exquisite sights of highly skilled labor implies there was a division of labor that requires settlement. Then there are precious stones embedded in the objects of art requires mining, quarry work, cutting and finishing all by hand manufacture, require the existence of other industries to make the tools the other skilled labors use for their productions. Finally the level of skill itself could not arrive to this stage of production if the culture were a nomadic collection of tribal families for this requires the cultivation of land or food, energy, sustenance, without which the skill level could not have reached.
One big flaw about the Perspective channel is the fact that the source of these films is obscured. This is a BBC series from 2012. All of the credits have been cut off so that the filmographers, composers and other contributors are dismissed. I don't understand why this is so.
Because they want people to think it is Them. People make loads of money from You Tube. This is Bootlegging of the Highest order, because they are conning people into thinking it is W himself, and subscribing. To something that is breaking copyright probably. The Honest Vloggers who actually Make their own vids work damned hard for it, and some of them are equal, if not better than the TV productions, because they Really Have studied their subject and are not just prancing around reading a script, that is often incorrect. And they are doing it on a shoestring. .
LOL. Right off the bat we learn that one of the major contributions of the barbarians to civilization was the development of trousers! Although I loved learning about the art of the barbarians, I don't really agree with Januszczak's thesis that art is the only measure of how advanced a civilization is. Great technical skill, artistic creativity, and the ability to create beautiful works of art doesn't prove that their civilization was highly advanced. Advancements in science, technology, engineering, politics, philosophy, morality, etc are also important.
I know. There’s a weird movement in history circles of wild overcorrection. Peoples/ideas/actions generally deemed in the past as negative or “evil” are now trying to be repackaged as saintly and beautiful. It’s silly and I hope cooler heads will prevail
Science would have been in its fetal stages at this point in time. And he did cover architectural, engineering and agricultural accomplishments. But, is is through art, that those accomplishments are documented. Christianity, and especially Catholicism, has spent centuries whitewashing history, to inflate its importance. The contributions of the non-Christians and early Christians are well worth a revisit.
'Civilization' is the Latin word for CITY. The Dark Ages saw most 'cities' utterly destroyed or tremendously smaller in size, Rome shrank 90% in size and was in ruins, for example. England saw near total destruction of anything 'civilized' and when 'London' became more than a small town, this was 600 years later.
At 10:42 those gold with red stone jewelry look alot like the 6th century merovingian dynasty bee shaped gold treasures discovered at the tomb of childeric in the 1600s.
