Great Artists with Tim Marlow
A major 25 part television series in which art historian Tim Marlow takes a fresh look at the most important artworks of some of the greatest artists in history. Shot on location in over 50 galleries, museums, churches and palaces throughout Europe and the United States, this series is a comprehensive survey of the history of Western art. Both intelligent and informative, the series aims to provide an uncomplicated and accessible analysis of the works and artists featured including Giotto, Michelangelo and Raphael.
- 2001-2013
- 2 seasons
- Documentary
A major 25 part television series in which art historian Tim Marlow takes a fresh look at the most important artworks of some of the greatest artists in history. Shot on location in over 50 galleries, museums, churches and palaces throughout Europe and the United States, this series is a comprehensive survey of the history of Western art. Both intelligent and informative, the series aims to provide an uncomplicated and accessible analysis of the works and artists featured including Giotto, Michelangelo and Raphael.
Season 2 Episode Guide
12 Episodes 2003 - 2013
Episode 1
Piero Della Francesca
23 mins
The first episode looks at the life and work of the 15th century Italian artist Piero della Francesca. With only 26 surviving works Piero has been seen as one of the mystery men of western art.
Episode 2
Holbein
23 mins
Holbein made the human individual seem more real and more exposed than any other artists before him and is the father of a tradition of portraiture which continues to this day.
Episode 3
Caravaggio
23 mins
Caravaggio lived a brief and tumultuous life, mocking authority and even murdering a man; but he always painted, bringing religious art to life in paintings so powerful and naturalistic that some saw them as miracles in themselves.
Episode 4
Stubbs
23 mins
Episode 5
Goya
23 mins
Goya has often been described as the last of the great old masters and the first of the new. He painted sublime portraits of the Spanish royal court and celebratory pictures of the good life in Spain.
Episode 6
David
23 mins
Episode 7
Constable
23 mins
Episode 8
Delacroix
23 mins
Delacroix is France's greatest romantic painter - an artist who challenged to rigid classicism of the previous generation, injecting a degree of fluidity and unpredictability to his art.
Episode 9
Whistler
23 mins
Episode 10
Rodin
23 mins
Episode 11
Cassatt
23 mins
Mary Cassatt is one of only a handful of women artists up to the beginning of the twentieth century who have managed to forge a reputation in the male dominated story of art history.
Episode 12
Schiele
23 mins
Egon Schiele has become one of the most celebrated artists of the last hundred years. He was a controversial figure in his own short lifetime who was jailed on an obscenity charge.