The Private Life of a Masterpiece - Season 5

The Private Life of a Masterpiece - Season 5

Season 5

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DatesApr 13, 2006 - Apr 17, 2006
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Episodes

Leonardo Da Vinci: The Last Supper
Season 5Episode 150 min

Leonardo Da Vinci: The Last Supper

The story of probably the most renowned painting in the world. The Last Supper revolutionized Western art and its power reverberates to this day in the courts and the bookshops and cinemas.

Just how Leonardo Da Vinci broke with traditions in creating his supremely dynamic masterpiece is recounted, together with the tale of his disastrous attempt to use a new technique in wall-painting.

Apr 13, 2006
Salvador Dali: Christ of St John of The Cross
Season 5Episode 250 min

Salvador Dali: Christ of St John of The Cross

Salvador Dali's extraordinary crucifixion is often called the greatest religious painting of the 20th century. Yet its artist was a notorious blasphemer some of whose work had outraged the Catholic Church.

His Christ of St. John of The Cross was inspired by a weird mix of Spanish mysticism and nuclear physics, with his Christ being modelled by a Hollywood stuntman. It's also a masterpiece of painting technique.

Apr 14, 2006
Piero della Francesca: The Resurrection
Season 5Episode 350 min

Piero della Francesca: The Resurrection

The first moment in the Christmas story is the arrival of the Archangel Gabriel to tell Mary that she has been chosen to give birth to the son of God. Many painters have depicted this event, none better than the great Flemish painter Jan Van Eyck.

As befits a man who seems to mixed espionage in with painting for his patron, Eyck's picture is full of symbols and half-concealed messages. It has an extraordinary after-life - sold by the Soviets against the wishes of the Hermitage and bought by a secretive American millionaire who hid it away in a cellar.

Apr 17, 2006

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