The Private Life of a Masterpiece
Date de parution : 1 avril 2004
 | Saison 1 - épisode 1 | Sandro Botticelli: La Primavera Botticelli's painting is extraordinarily beautiful; his portrayal of Flora, the central character, reveals a face you might find in London or... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 2 | Leonardo da Vinci: The Last Supper The story of probably the most renowned painting in the world. The Last Supper revolutionized Western art and its power reverberates to this day in... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 3 | Piero della Francesca: The Resurrection The first moment in the Christmas story is the arrival of the Archangel Gabriel to tell Mary that she has been chosen to give birth to the son of God.... |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 1 | Johannes Vermeer: The Art of Painting Of all Vermeer's paintings, it was probably this picture that he held in greatest esteem. It was the painting he used to show off his skills to... |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 2 | Diego Velázquez: The Rokeby Venus She's been called 'the most smackable bum in art'. Velazquez's portrait of a young woman lying naked on a couch gazing at her reflection in a mirror... |
| Saison 3 - épisode 1 | Francisco Goya: The Third of May 1808 Arguably the most powerful painting about war ever achieved. It portrays the slaughter of civilians after Napoleonic troops entered Madrid in 1808.... | |
 | Saison 3 - épisode 2 | Katsushika Hokusai: The Great Wave Perhaps the most celebrated of all Japanese pictures, the Great Wave's portrayal of a huge wave about to overwhelm three boats was only produced by... |
 | Saison 4 - épisode 1 | Édouard Manet: Le déjeuner sur l'herbe Two men sitting on the grass, with a picnic nearby. They are not looking at a naked woman seated nearby, who stares brazenly out of the canvas at... |
 | Saison 4 - épisode 2 | Edvard Munch: The Scream The Scream tells the life-story of the painting more widely reproduced than any other, even the Mona Lisa. It shows exactly how and why the... |
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 | Saison 6 - épisode 1 | Gustav Klimt: The Kiss One of the most sensual of paintings, achieved in the extraordinary intellectual climate of turn of the century Vienna by a male artist of... |
| Saison 6 - épisode 2 | Salvador Dalí: Christ of Saint John of the Cross Salvador Dali’s strange crucifixion is often called the greatest religious painting of the 20th century. Yet its artist was a notorious blasphemer... |
