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Germany: Memories of a Nation

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Neil MacGregor explores 600 years of Germany's complex and often challenging history.

Neil MacGregor, director of the British Museum, explores 600 years of Germany's complex and often challenging history using objects, art, landmarks and literature.

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Germany: Memories of a Nation: Riemenschneider: Sculpting the Spirit

Riemenschneider: Sculpting the Spirit

14/10/2014

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Neil MacGregor focuses on the supreme limewood sculptures of Riemenschneider (c1460-1531).

Neil MacGregor focuses on the supreme religious sculptures of Riemenschneider (c1460-1531), whose Four Evangelists were carved from the peculiarly German medium of limewood.

Neil MacGregor focuses on the religious sculptures of Riemenschneider (c1460- 1531), whose reputation as an artist has steadily risen. He is seen as a supreme sculptor, working in a peculiarly German medium, limewood, but articulating the sensibilities of a continent. 

And Neil MacGregor reveals why, as the war came to an end in 1945, the Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann identified Riemenschneider as a moral and political hero. 

Producer Paul Kobrak.

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