Thanks for posting, SC. I’m enjoying this show (even though the narrator is extremely annoying!). I never took an art history class in my life, but this is extremely fascinating. The writers sure crammed a lot of information into this show.
There’s a VERY slight family connection for me, too. My paternal great grandfather was a silk merchant in southeast Netherlands in the late 1800s. But the rapid acceleration of cloth manufacture mechanization changed that profession and he moved to Cologne, Germany for another trade. His son (my grandfather) went to work for a battery company in Cologne in the 1890s and was a traveling salesman and service engineer / technician. The company assigned him to Danzig around 1897 where he met his bride. So the family got out of textiles and into the then-high tech. Batteries were used everywhere, for communications, lighting, transportation (rail, cars, boats), and other applications.
My pleasure. It’s been 99% great thus far, the third episode just started here. :^)