Rick Steves' Poland
About the Episode
This one-hour "best of Poland" special begins in Kraków, with a stunning square, historic castle, and nearby, communist-era Nowa Huta and Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp memorial. Then we head to bustling Warsaw for skyscrapers and Chopin, sample gingerbread in Toruń, and ogle red-brick Malbork Castle. We finish in Gdańsk with handsome Hanseatic townhouses and stirring Solidarity history.
Aired:
03/31/25
| Expires: 06/01/25 | Runtime: 54m 57s
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Extras
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Art Bites 190: Romanticism and Romantic Era Painting
Epic, melodramatic canvases, images that stir the emotions, and an embrace of nature.2:43 -
Art Bites 188: Gustav Klimt
Gustav Klimt, with paintings like “The Kiss” captured a simmering hedonism in Vienna.1:35 -
Art Bites 187: Toulouse-Lautrec
Toulouse-Lautrec painted the turn-of-the-century bohemian scene on Paris’ Montmartre Hill.1:46 -
Art Bites 186: Modern Art and the Isms of the 20th Century
20th-century art was a parade of isms: Fauvism, Expressionism, Cubism, Surrealism.4:31 -
Art Bites 185: Art Nouveau, Mucha, and Gaudí
Art Nouveau went organic with willowy maidens, melting eaves, and an embrace of nature.5:03 -
Art Bites 184: Vincent van Gogh
Van Gogh’s wild brush strokes and vivid colors portrayed the world he felt so intensely.3:01 -
Art Bites 183: The Post-Impressionists: Seurat, Cézanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh
Dots, slabs, primitive Tahitian scenes, wild brush strokes, and vivid colors.3:51 -
Art Bites 182: Claude Monet and His Waterlilies
The true subject of Monet’s “Waterlilies” is the changing reflections on the pond.2:10 -
Art Bites 181: Rodin, Impressionism in Sculpting
Auguste Rodin brought Impressionism to stone with iconic statues like “The Thinker.”1:27 -
Art Bites 180: Impressionism, Monet, Renoir, and Degas
The Impressionists revolutionized art with a focus on nature: light, shadow, and color.6:20
