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- DirectorMick DavisStarsAndy GarciaElsa ZylbersteinOmid DjaliliThe story of Amedeo Modigliani's bitter rivalry with Pablo Picasso, and his tragic romance with Jeanne Hebuterne.
- 2001–201149m8.4 (14)TV EpisodeDirectorIan Michael JonesStarsSamuel WestPhilippa BerryPeter BogdanovichSandro Botticelli's 'La Primavera' is one of art history's most hotly debated paintings. Created in the 1480s and rediscovered only in the 19th century, historians and critics weigh in on the enigmatic painting's origin and meaning.
- 2001–2011TV Episode
- 2001–2011TV Episode
- Episode: (2004)2001–201149m7.9 (9)TV EpisodeDirectorMichael BurkeStarsSamuel WestRichard CorkKatharine LochnanAn American icon in Paris. Critics, artists, and enthusiasts discuss James McNeill Whistler's beloved 1871 painting best known by its popular title, "Whistler's Mother."
- 2001–201149m7.7 (18)TV EpisodeDirectorMick GoldStarsSamuel WestSalvador DalíDawn AdesAn examination of Salvador Dali's 1951 painting "Christ of St. John of the Cross." A convert to Catholicism and banished from the Surrealists, Dali finds inspiration in a drawing by a Catholic mystic. The work's uneasy home in Glasgow.
- 2001–20117.4 (10)TV EpisodeDirectorIan Michael JonesStarsSamuel WestWaldemar JanuszczakTamar GarbScholars and critics celebrate Paul Gauguin's "Te Tamari No Atua," better known as "God's Child," painted in Tahiti in 1896. The Impressionist artist's unorthodox painting defied traditional representations of the Christmas Nativity.
- 2001–20117.8 (7)TV EpisodeDirectorIan Michael Jones
- 2001–20118.7 (10)TV EpisodeDirectorLucie DonahueStarsSamuel WestDavid BomfordAnne Clergue
- 2001–201150m7.6 (11)TV EpisodeDirectorIan Michael JonesStarsSamuel WestSusanna Avery-QuashFrancesco CagliottiScholars, critics, and military strategists discuss the abundant merits of Paolo Uccello's "The Battle of San Romano," a triptych painting that immortalizes a single day's warfare from preparation, engagement, and victory.
- 2001–20117.5 (16)TV EpisodeStarsSamuel WestCristine AcidiniPinin Brambilla BarcilonThe rise, fall, and rise again of Leonardo's Last Supper is recounted by critics, historians, and the work's primary restorer. The iconic painting's recreations, spoofs, and its pivotal role in The Da Vinci Code are also discussed.
- 2001–201149m7.7 (9)TV EpisodeDirectorJohn BushStarsSamuel WestLuigi AndreiniMarilyn Aronberg LavinWhat is "the greatest painting in the world"? According to Aldous Huxley, it is The Resurrection painted by Piero della Francesca in the 1460s. The fresco's origins, power, and miraculous survival during World War II are discussed.
- DirectorDavid BeltonStarsSimon SchamaAndy SerkisSimon sketches how Vincent Van Gogh was foremost a world-improver, who cared for the common man, working as a 'lay priest' among but got fired by the Dutch Protestant establishment at age 30, and only then turned to painting as a means of continuing his social strife for the poor, while depending on his brother, who became an art gallery-keeper in Paris, for his meager livelihood, as his works' dark themes and colors didn't sell in the colorful, light-focused age of impressionism, yet made his mark on it after a visit to Paris, without becoming fashionable till long after his death in a mental asylum.
- DirectorClare BeavanStarsSimon SchamaGrégoire BonnetTim FrancesThis time Simon rather uses the works of the iron-monger's son, orphaned at 7 by a duel and trained by a famous relative, Boulanger, in the art of 'bonbonniere' paintings to the taste of the aristocracy, as illustration of a fairly elaborate sketch of the road to and trough the French Revolution rather then the other way around. David incurred a permanent jaw-mark which marked his face, speech and social skills, rather estranging him from his patrons and the Royal Academy, despite his ultimate success. After expensive French support to the American Revolution contributed to rising poverty and outcry for change, David soon espoused the cause of the revolution, even becoming a member of the legislative Convention, in the ranks of the fanatical publicist Marat, whose slaying by a moderate revolutionary he portrayed masterly, and tyrant Robespierre, the incarnation of political terror by guillotine whose head ended up like 'last' king Louis XVI's, David even rises to chief of its visual propaganda. After the collapse of the republic, David turned coat to become Napoleon Bonaparte's court-painter, only after the royal Restoration he was banished and forgotten, 'exiled' in Brussels (Belgium).
- DirectorClare BeavanJames RuncieStarsSimon SchamaThe rise and fall of Holland's great painter Rembrandt van Rijn (1606 - 1669) is detailed.
- DirectorClare BeavanStarsSimon SchamaAndrea GherpelliMeirko FiccaItalian sculptor Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) becomes the hottest artist in Rome.
- DirectorCarl HindmarchStarsSimon SchamaPaul PopplewellAndrew GarfieldThe 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.
- DirectorRobert AltmanStarsTim RothPaul RhysAdrian BrineThe familiar tragic story of Vincent van Gogh is broadened by focusing as well on his brother Theodore, who helped support Vincent. The movie also provides a nice view of the locations which Vincent painted.
- DirectorRaúl RuizStarsJohn MalkovichVeronica FerresStephen DillaneA portrait of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt, whose lavish, sexual paintings came to symbolize the art nouveau style of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
- StarsRichard ArmitageJulian GloverWill Keen"Three hour mini-series tells the intimate history of a most illustrious brotherhood of Impressionist artists - Monet, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne and Manet. Entirely based on documentary evidence, special effects transport the viewer inside some of the world's best-loved paintings, The Impressionists will recreate the illuminated landscapes, and haunting portraits of late 19th-century France."
- DirectorMilos FormanStarsJavier BardemNatalie PortmanStellan SkarsgårdPainter Francisco Goya faces a scandal involving his muse, who is labeled a heretic by a monk.
- CreatorPeter BowkerFranny MoyleStarsSamuel BarnettSam CraneJosie FarmiloePeriod drama set in London about the rise of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
- DirectorGilles BourdosStarsMichel BouquetChrista ThéretVincent RottiersSet on the French Riviera in the summer of 1915, Jean Renoir -- son of the Impressionist painter, Pierre-Auguste -- returns home to convalesce after being wounded in World War I. At his side is Andrée, a young woman who rejuvenates, enchants, and inspires both father and son.