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12 Episodes 2003 - 2013
Episode 1
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
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
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
23 mins
Episode 5
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
23 mins
Episode 7
23 mins
Episode 8
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
23 mins
Episode 10
23 mins
Episode 11
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
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.