Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty

Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty (2024)

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Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty explores the lives of three rival artists - Michelangelo, Leonardo and Raphael – who created seductively beautiful works of art during an age of violence and upheaval.

Featuring contributions from contemporary artists Antony Gormley, Alison Lapper, David LaChapelle, a host of experts and a star turn from Charles Dance as the older Michelangelo, this landmark series reveals how some of history's greatest works of art, from Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa to Michelangelo's David, emerged from an era of brutality and bloodshed.

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III. Redemption
Season 1Episode 359 min

III. Redemption

As Michelangelo sets to work on the Sistine Chapel, his rival Raphael is working on the Pope's private apartments just a few hundred metres away. Each man is determined to outdo the other and win the favour of the Pope.

Meanwhile, Raphael unveils the School of Athens: a work of iconic beauty that casts Julius II as the inheritor of the wisdom of the classical world, with the figures of Plato and Aristotle surrounded by great thinkers.

Dec 2, 2024

Recent Episodes

EpisodeNameAirdate
S01E03III. RedemptionDec 2, 2024
S01E02II. RivalryDec 2, 2024
S01E01I. RiseDec 2, 2024
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Cast

Charles Dance

Charles Dance

plays Michelangelo
Sophie Okonedo

Sophie Okonedo

voices herself
Joshua Duffy

Joshua Duffy

plays Raphael
Eddie Mann

Eddie Mann

plays Young Michelangelo
Jonny Glynn

Jonny Glynn

plays Leonardo da Vinci
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Characters

Michelangelo

Michelangelo

played by Charles Dance
Narrator

Narrator

voiced by Sophie Okonedo
Raphael

Raphael

played by Joshua Duffy
Young Michelangelo

Young Michelangelo

played by Eddie Mann
Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci

played by Jonny Glynn
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