The Private Life of a Masterpiece - Season 4

The Private Life of a Masterpiece - Season 4

Season 4

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DatesApr 2, 2005 - Apr 16, 2005
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Episodes

Eugène Delacroix: Liberty Leading the People
Season 4Episode 150 min

Eugène Delacroix: Liberty Leading the People

The great revolutionary masterpiece, painted by a man who soon complained that revolutions got in the way of dinner parties. Shunned by the government of the day, it has endured to become the symbol of the French republic and an icon of later revolutions.

Apr 2, 2005
Johannes Vermeer: The Art of Painting
Season 4Episode 250 min

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 customers. A customer three centuries after he died was none other than Adolf Hitler.

Apr 9, 2005
Georges Seurat: Sunday on La Grande Jatte - 1884
Season 4Episode 350 min

Georges Seurat: Sunday on La Grande Jatte - 1884

A popular masterpiece and yet an enduring enigma. It seems to show a quiet scene in a Paris park but there are hints at the demi-monde, if you know where to look. The most remarkable aspect of this vast canvas however remains Seurat's technique his revolutionary pointillism.

Apr 23, 2005
Gustav Klimt: The Kiss
Season 4Episode 450 min

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 prodigious sexual appetite. Yet it may portray the shift of sexual power towards the female.

Apr 30, 2005
Paolo Uccello: The Battle of San Romano
Season 4Episode 550 min

Paolo Uccello: The Battle of San Romano

Among the greatest of all depictions of battle, these three panels were break throughs in painting technique, so that contemporaries must have viewed them in awe. Also they were the victims of an audacious art crime.

Apr 16, 2005

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