Civilisation: A Personal View by Kenneth Clark, Ep. 08 "The Light of Experience"

Clark tells of new worlds in space and in a drop of waterworlds that the telescope and microscope revealedand the new realism in the Dutch paintings of Rembrandt and other artists that took the observation of human character to a new stage of development in the 17th century.

The Light of Holland
Frans Hals
Rembrandt
Descartes
Vermeer
The Royal Society
Sir Christopher Wren
St Paul's Cathedral

BBC: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00dtjbv

Amazon:

Book: https://www.amazon.com/Civilisation-Kenneth-Clark/dp/0719568447

Series: https://www.amazon.com/Civilisation-Complete-Kenneth-Clark/dp/B000F0UUKA