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Simon Schama's Power of Art

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2006-2006
1 Season
Documentary, Drama

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In each episode historian Simon Schama treats, in his own erudite, unconventional and somewhat socially engaged style, a work of art from a great master. He concentrates not just on the art history as such, but mainly on the relationship between the work and the historical context of its creation, as this touches the significance of and vision on the subject as well as the life of the artist: where and when did he produce it, why, for which destination...

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Simon Schama

Self - Presenter

Paul Popplewell

Caravaggio

Allan Corduner

Mark Rothko

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Episode 1

Caravaggio

60 mins

The violent life and tumultuous times of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610), revolutionary artist of the Counter Reformation and Baroque era, whose paintings forever changed religious art.

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