Men Of The North: Waldemar Januszczak Uncovers Viking, Anglo-Saxon & Carolingian Art
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This episode concentrates on the Vikings and their inventive craftsmanship, the expansive Carolingians' art of exquisite finesse and richness and the skillful hardworking ingenious Anglo-Saxons. Januszczak shows the Viking skill in making ships and their attacks on Christian centres such as Lindisfarne not only to loot but to defend their own Norse gods.
He visits the Jelling stones that commemorated the Danes' conversion to Christianity. Charles Martel and the Franks belief they were God's chosen people after the defeat of Muslim forces later led to Charlemagne being declared Holy Roman Emperor by the Pope and the creation of the largest empire since the Romans.
Januszczak considers Charlemagne's Palatine Chapel, Aachen, as a brutal and cold attempt to copy the Muslim Mosque of Cordoba. Anglo-Saxon art is represented by the Sutton Hoo hoard. Januszczak concludes that in the Dark Ages it was not the sword but the written word, whether in wood, stone, or what he considers the greatest masterpiece of all art, the Lindisfarne Gospels, that defined the age.
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I think I've learned more from Januszczak in two weeks of watching his documentaries than 4 years of Fine Arts. FANTASTIC!
sad aint it! I can say the same thing! I barely paid attention in college but if he was my art history professor Id would have been enthralled completely
says more about you and your dedication than your study.
@@demi3115 Exactly
Love this guy. I've always loved art but some of the deep dives into say the mysteries behind specific paintings and artists or dental records in a London England library clearly demonstrating the impact of sugar in our diet are so enlightening
I have watched some of his videos 2x over and still pick up the jewels.
Tryin to watch ads but this documentary is in the way
Skip to the end of the video and hit the replay button. Watch the video without ads
It's so annoying. I have to pull the red dot forward just beyond the evil yellow ad dots and then there aren't ads.
@Topher TheTenth Free plugin for chrome browser, just search "adblock for youtube"
Well said
Yes, it is annoying but it is worth it. For me anyway. What is five seconds ?
You are without doubt one of the best art historians of all time. Your teaching is in itself an artform. Thank you.
@Chucky Chrysal
Yes, he is outstanding!
On the cross:
"This is a rather wonky specimen, which is why I like it so much. It's not quite right...so you just want to hug it."
:) I love his quirky humor.
Maybe it reminds him of his own wonky specimen lol
We can all thank Professor Waldemar Januszczak for the best, most entertaining, and most informative videos on history, culture, and art, anywhere on the Internet! Thank you!
Waldemar’s Perspective productions are like a combination of travelogue, sociology, psychology, geography, history, and art - all delivered in a style that is entertaining and accessible for the lay person. He gives the viewer the perspective of art history from both the forest and the trees, and as a result makes a strong case for his perspectives on art. It’s how every Art History 101 should be taught.
Agreed!
I adore him!!
Brilliant praise ....thanks
Waldemar is an absolute treasure as a presenter and spokesperson for all historical subjects. The B.B.C. really has a treasure in him. Don't let him get away!!! Lol
Too jewish
Carl, I could not agree more!
@@kgspvgsp7569 he said he was Catholic in another episode, went to a Catholic school too
@@kckazcoll1 pog
@@kgspvgsp7569 ~Shame on you for bigotry and, quite probable, wrongness.
“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams.....................
Memory and projection into a future that might be if we do it right and get some lucky breaks. If the heavens open up. If we are bestowed with grace.
You know it's a Waldemar doc if "Wonky" pops up somewhere......as I rewatch these brilliant films I've heard it used several times.
Wonky is Wonky World. :)
That metal worker guy is incredible
Calling them "barbarians", is an insult.
"Vikings" or norsemen, had the biggest trading markets in the world during that time.
There's even archeological evidence that Europes biggest market city existed in southern Sweden...
They weren't all farmers and raiders. And they didn't live like cavemen at all. They just didn't build christian temples.
I’m a big fan of Waldemar but the leaving out of Irish and Pictish art in any true detail was disappointing. I can understand the focus on Saxon art, for its out standing quality, but we Irish came a cross as lesser folk.
This is a documentary on Viking art, not Irish or Pictish art. It is not that hard to figure out. Look at the title.
So good people, why did you give up using DVDs? If you download and burn onto DVD hey presto no ads are downloaded with the content!! Then you can watch and enjoy!
The amount of commercials is insane on this channel
imagine not using ad block
Mr Lag I may. I usually don’t bc I want channels to get paid but I’m starting to reconsider
if you skip a commercial, then there will more commercial coming up and even the lenght of each commercial is growing up, the more often you skip. if you never skip in the first place, they are almost NO commercials.
Julie Worland Thanks, I didn’t know that 🙃
Julie Worland Long live the algorythm shit.
The Oseberg ship is amazing.
The many daily life and ceremonial artefacts excavated from the burial is of equally extraordinary high standard!
The museum is definitely worth visiting, if possible...
There were Viking mercenaries soldiering as body guards in Constantinople, so what's that about "staying in the harsh north" and all.
Can u guys stop complaining about the ads and just appreciate the beautiful art and effort they put into this doc? Way better than the cap on TV now...unless you want more sjw bullshit??
Well, this was on tv first - it's a BBC production. All the complaining about the adds is annoying, though. I mean, adblock exists, anyway, and it's very flexible. Watching a couple of ads seems fair in return for good content, but if a youtube channel exploits the ad system and puts in too many (like this one), why should the audience bother watching ads from them at all?
October 2021 ... Still appreciate the docs being offered on TH-cam more than what is offered on commercial TV, sadly even PBS.
As for the ads, yes there are a lot of them. You can down load an ad-blocker (just remember that some of the individuals downloading these videos get paid a miniscule amount for the inclusion of the ad.).
Love these documentaries..I’ve always loved medieval art…well, art, period, but especially this period and I’m mad for illuminated manuscripts.
love the contents But Perspective come on ! ADDs every 3min ????WTF !!
Add ≠ ad
I hate ads, and youtube is peppered with them. So, I decided to get premium. And its cheap and ad free, plus the fact that you get the music function, which is just like Spotify. For the price of Spotify, I get two things. Just telling you, I think its worth it. I pay 9.99 per month and there is never an ad.
@@NickanM Just install adblock plus and use chrome
@@drgreengood
And leech on other people's work?
No thank you.
@@NickanM yutuve leechs other people's work
very good, informative, interesting documentary. i like vikings. and i LOVE US CELTS!
Ok, there is very little Viking/pagan artefacts in this documentary; its mostly Anglo-Saxon and Christian
I’ve been watching this for about an hour now, however I’m fairly sure I’ve only seen 10 minutes worth of this documentary the other 50 minutes were ads....no point in watching any further, it’s going to take 3 solid days to finish this documentary
Making a documentary about the Viking craftsmanship and the Saga without mentioning Iceland is like making a documentary about British pop music saga and not mentioning the Beatles
Well I guess we need another documentary, from, Waldemar!
Great presentation. The dark part of the age was/is more knowledge than art.
The Christianization of Lithuania occurred in 1387, initiated by King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania Władysław II Jagiełło and his cousin Vytautas the Great. It signified the official adoption of Christianity by Lithuania, the last pagan country in Europe.
I find the writing on ancient gravestones deeply touching and proof of the universality of human emotion…some are very funny, some not all complimentary, and some full of such profound loving grief and the terrible ache of an empty place in the those who outlived the deceased.
Man, you almost gave me a heart attack there 😨👉🏻14:51
when you whipped out your FOLDEKNIV in front of the rune stone! 😵
This man is like a fiery version of David Attenborough! I love it....
I love forgers! Imagine the skills and knowledge it takes to do that.They know more than the so called 'experts' They are my modern day 'Robin Hoods' in that they steal from the rich and make them look stupid. Unfortunately they don't give to the poor, but I still admire them.
Waldemar's enthusiasm is delightful!
I’ve never known any of this … so glad I found this channel and Waldemar.
32:15 BBC: Frankish Germanic art bad, Anglo Saxon art goooood.
Lol I know so biased lolll. The Franks actually did amazing things with gold, colors and jewels but that was left out.
SO GOOD TO SEE ALL THIS HISTORY and I didn't have to attend a class - or 3 or 4 - THANK YOU THIS ALL TAKES MY BREATH AWAY. so grateful. I struggled to get an education- finding I COULD ACTUALLY do art works, naturally - I could've been somebody like Mr. Greenhouse. wow. at 80 - I am enjoyng being shown beauty beyond compare.
Living in the NW we're surrounded with Vikings!
I am a Yank-Half Irish, plus Norwegian/German, out here in Wyoming. Thanks, again, Waldy-what a treat!❇️
Waldemar's perspective is stellar, magnificent and splendid.
I'm thankful for you sir.
Anyone knows the name of the host. He is great. I wanna know more about him.
Waldemar Januszczak
Remains my fave Waldemar documentary. Carving his name in runes...straightening his quiff hairstyle...iconic moments.
And the man is genuinely extremely interesting.
Curious why the term "illuminated manuscript" was never used? That's what I was taught in art history during my BFA. Wonderful Waldemar doc as always.
Waldemar Januszczak, long time no see, I am now 100% more excited about this documentary!
6:08 "This is what their helmets really looked like." Should be "This is the looking of ONE of their helmets." No demerit for grammar; it is an error in logic not grammar.
Aidan and his monks were from Iona. Lindisfarne was a Dalriada Scots' foundation.
This is such an incredible series to watch 🙂 I really learnt a lot
I love watching this guy-thanks for helping me heal up from rib injury and keeping my brain entertained
I like the cloisonné king and the craftsman.
Where Waldemar goes I go.
Loving this. Learning a lot.
Waldemar is my idol
To this TH-cam Channel: I really appreciate the content you host here, but there's a reasonable number of ads you can put on a video (2-3 is really the maximum I'll tolerate anyway). If you put in too many, people will lose patience and do one of 2 things: go elsewhere, or use adblock.
Once a channel has used too many adds on a video, I block ads for all videos on that channel. Apps these days make this very easy to do and I doubt I'm the only one with such a system.
At 23:49. Yes, I've seen finer jewelry than what the Anglo-Saxons achieved. They're jewels from T'ang China. Just go to museums with T'ang Chinese bling and you will be amazed. Just as impressive as any Anglo-Saxon jewel--extremely intricate, exquisite, with the finest, tiniest details you will ever see in gold, silver and precious stones. T'ang Chinese jewelry was also made at roughly the same time as Anglo-Saxon jewelry, between 600 AD and 800 AD. You will be mighty impressed.
Vikings never really wore helmets, they saw them as cumbersome and heavy for battle, this is why they are not found all over, they never used them. Ignore the Hollywood Viking image.
MAGNIFICENT!!!
Thank you 🙏❤️🙏
I have seen that garnets are found on the beaches of Scotland. What is the source of the garnets in the wonderful Viking hoards?
Love this guy's work and his contagious enthusiasm. He KNOWS art, from A to Z.
Dumbed down, overly dramatized and riddled with commercials. Even downright wrong in places. Unwatchable.
Love the metal working artist.
Waldemar, you are SO interesting, you bring it all to life, thank you
Break my heart, why don't you! Wonderful! Jeg laengter hjem til Danmark! Thank you Waldemar!
For all of us Art History lions, this is red meat! You can never get enough of this.
@@mattg56 Good stuff!
It's amazing how much racial stereotyping there is in historical programming.
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Not always cutting edge. Views on Anglo Saxons are questionable. His opinions are intrusive.
The fall of the Roman Empire???? Charlemagne was a Roman Emperor ! The city of Rome had been sacked but at the time of Charlemagne there was a pope very much in Rome!!!
Also a Byzantine ( Eastern “ Roman” ) Empire.
I used to spend holidays on Holy Island ..amazing little place
Aachen's cathedral is actually one of my favourites compared to other cathedrals. 💔
But it's really fascinating how sturdy cuttlefish bones are.
bloody marvelous.
Such an excellent piece. Thank you
Viking artifacts have been found in Texas, Minnesota, and perhaps in Grand Canyon, though I'm not sure of the last.
" The twilight begins to work it's magick," Indeed.
This channel is better than many with many more subscribers
WARNING: Art of the Vikings is buried under tons of ads!!!
Use adblock, it works.
I love it all.
I gave up television because of all the commercials and I refuse to watch anything that has ads this often!!!
I am fin of the. smart leader of History understanding and feelings of human. Behavior through century also millennium also his English voice Love from Mexico 😘
RACHEL THESE ARE real men.............................right......................RIGHTRILEFTGHT..........................
Three sets of commercials in the first five minutes. A veritable masterclass in how to drive away viewers and discourage subscribers.
I didn't see absolutely any advertisements during the entire program.
Waldemar, I watch you to find sanity in the world today.
Great one.
I am so happy to find this documentaryl. Thank you very much
What a magnificent ship!
The Sutton Hoo jewellery is astounding. Utterly beautiful and absolutely beyond compare. It always blows me away
So impresive we do so love you
I just love valking around vith Waldemar. This is my new fave series!
Finer jewelry easy Canada native American anything puts everything in England to shame
The Norse (not Viking as Viking means Pirate, (say the Norse not the Vikings unless it is referring to a raid) consisted mostly of a genetic composition mostly of R1b, so that means they arrived in Norway from Ireland in the times before 5-600 AD. The Irish had Drakkars with sails at least 2500 years before the same ships appeared in Norway at all. The rune alphabet Ogham is basically the same rune alphabet found in Scandinavia from Norse times that confirms they travelled from Ireland which is also consistent with the genetic evidence in the remnants in Norse establishments in Britain (York, Cork, Dublin etc) that basically have none so called proto Scandinavian haplogroups but only R1b in the modern times population.
BTW, it was catholicism that emerged around the year 1000 AD not "christianity", it was only the royals that adapted it officially to get to trade with Europe. What really ended the so called empirical tendencies of Norway was the plague in the thirteen hundreds that very well could have been one of history's first examples of biological warfare being used actively, because isn't it strange that one of the most isolated places in the world was the worst off? The Norse culture lived on among common people in Norway until the sixteen hundreds when the revolution of the Lutheran Protestantism from Henry VIII emerged, banning and burning all remnants of the Norse with the implementation of a "preste velde".
You might want to google search "Roman iron mining in Norway" if you're interested in creating another interesting documentary that can explain who was the Vikings and where they came from before the Norse viking times began around 700 AD. I've given you plenty of leads above.
Mentioning the Stonehenge, that probably resembles an example of one of history's first ethnical cleansings since the haplogroup of men that existed those times are gone, even their male offspring's must have been removed as it is only R1b left in the area but plentiful of female haplogroups left. This must have happened around 4000 years ago. It is important to implement this information correctly or else you fall into the cunning trap repeating the narrative disregarding and disrespecting our culture like the Lutherans did/do which I am sure isn't the intention.
norwegianscitechnews.com/2017/09/the-enigma-of-norwegian-iron-production/
www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/4500-year-old-boat-galway-viking-discovered
R1b-L21 in Norway was probably due to gaelic slaves people taken as slaves. Dna shows that the people on viking raids came from a lot of places in Europe, not just the nordic countries. Runes were used all over mainland Europe. Ogham was restricted to the British Isles. Irish galleri, Scottish birlinn, inspired by viking ships. Can we please stop with the alternative reality already?
The art of the adds, a full documentary with some historical backgrounds on other minor documentaries.
Interesting, thank you.
Little history.. Poland accepted Christianity in 966 when Mieszko l married Dobravka, Czech (Christian country) Kings daughter their daughter married viking kings son perhaps that's when vikings became Christians their son as a king expanded the kingdom even to today's Canada (by that they really were first in discovery of America) lion is not just symbol of strength its symbol of Jews as a tribe that's y is all over in Christianity specially Roman catholic.. The famous one with that symbol was Saint Mark the true father of Christian religion starting all in Alexandria..
Very well done indeed...
Get ready for commercials every 3 minutes. So many adds I had to stop watching.
Waldemar, you are Better than any Professor I ever had!!! Your teaching skills are amazing!!! I could watch you all day!!😍👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
I was really enjoying this documentary but all these ads made it to unbearable to continue tbh
Magganificent !
Thank you for these programs explaining the Art of many ages.
THAT AMAZING SHIP IS SO BEAUTIFULLY-CRAFTED...it's like a seagoing poem by an Odin-spawned skald.
Stood next to the Oseberg Ship you feel a shiver down your spine.
The sheer size.
It exudes both power and grief simultaneously.
Being a burial vessel.
Thought to have been for a Viking Queen. 👑
Welp, 8+ mins in and finally got an ad.
Usually a lot more
NVM...now they’re flooding in
Do you want to know a place with an intrintincate art appart of anglosaxon? Go Sweden to Vendel age and see where anglosaxon comes from
I just think this was one of your best
K. Haring art was certainly inspired by Runes.
Excellent video. I love the Perspective series. Brilliant and inspiring.
A great documentary on art and religion!
12 minutes in, 4 ads. I stopped watching and found this doc on another channel then blocked this one.
Yes indeed. The way YT does it with the ads is an èxtreme RUDE and blunt way and an immens insult to the viewer. A complete lack of respect for the viewer.
I'm still looking for a real good TH-cam ad blocker for Safari on iPhone !!
Just fast forward to the end, hit replay and the ads disappear
@@43painter it's actually the owner of upload and channel who's deciding the level of adds 😉
Grab me by the ear if you'd like, but the Vikings *were* barbarous. Nice art, wretched behavior on raids even by the standards of their day. Or, as Kenneth Clark put it long, long ago - a culture, yes; a civilization, no. Outstanding documentary!