The Private Life of a Masterpiece
- The Private Life of a Masterpiece
'The Private Life of a Masterpiece' was a BBC documentary series examining great works of art. It ran for 5 seasons from 2001 to 2006, for a total of 22 episodes; each episode was 50 minutes long. A DVD set of the first five series was released in 2007, which re-ordered the documentaries to reflect art history.
Disc One: Renaissance Masterpieces
Sandro Botticelli: "La Primavera"
Paolo Uccello: "The Battle of San Romano"
Leonardo Da Vinci: "The Last Supper"
Piero della Francesca: "The Resurrection"
Disc Two: Seventeenth century Masters
Rembrandt van Rijn: "The Night Watch"
Johannes Vermeer: "The Art of Painting"
Diego Velazquez: "The Rokeby Venus"
Disc Three: Masterpieces 1800-1850
Francisco Goya: "The Third of May 1808"
Eugene Delacroix: "Liberty Leading the People"
Katsushika Hokusai: "The Great Wave"
Disc Four: Masterpieces 1851-1900
Edouard Manet: "Le déjeuner sur l'herbe"
James McNeill Whistler: "Whistler's Mother"
Edvard Munch: "The Scream"
Disc Five: Impressionism and the Post-Impressionists
Auguste Renoir: "Bal au moulin de la Galette, Montmartre"
Vincent Van Gogh: "Sunflowers"
Georges Seurat: "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte"
Disc Six: Masterpieces of the Twentieth century
Pablo Picasso: "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon"
Gustav Klimt: "The Kiss"
Salvador Dali: "Christ of Saint John of the Cross"
Disc Seven: Masterpieces of Sculpture
Michelangelo: "David"
Edgar Degas: "La Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans"
Auguste Rodin: "The Kiss"
A further series was broadcast in December 2006 :
The Private Life of a Christmas Masterpiece
Jan van Eyck: "The Annunciation"
Pieter Bruegel the Elder: "Census At Bethlehem"
Paul Gauguin: "God's Child"
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