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The stories behind iconic works of art.
Art historian Kate Bryan creates a television history of the nude.
Release date:
02 Feb 2020
Josie d'Arby presents a live life drawing masterclass, which viewers can take part in too.
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04 Feb 2020
Hip-hop legend Fab 5 Freddy explores 15th-century Italian renaissance art on horseback.
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27 Jul 2019
The story of the last decade of Picasso's life, through the words of family and friends.
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24 Mar 2018
A look at the influence of the 17th-century pioneer collectors such as Thomas Howard.
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17 Jul 2013
The untold story of Britain's cross-dressing high society painter.
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27 Aug 2017
The story of the female artists who aimed to radically change the way women were perceived
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18 Jun 2018
What happened when the world's greatest artists met on the edge of the Arctic Circle
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04 Mar 2004
Alastair Sooke celebrates the protean genius of artist Robert Rauschenberg.
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10 Dec 2016
Andrew Graham-Dixon looks at the art of the German middle ages and Renaissance.
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29 Nov 2010
Artist Paul Gauguin, 19th-century colonial wild man, reassessed for the 21st century.
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01 Dec 2019
A unique insight into the life of celebrated painter Paula Rego, directed by her son.
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25 Mar 2017
Roman anatomist Claudius Galen and the artist and part-time dissector Leonardo da Vinci.
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13 Aug 2014
Jim Moir, aka Vic Reeves, explores how video became the art form of the modern world.
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24 Nov 2019
What happened on the December night when Vincent van Gogh took a blade to his own ear?
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06 Aug 2016
The history of the humble fig leaf throughout 2,000 years of western art and ethics.
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10 Feb 2011
Andrew Graham-Dixon explores the extraordinary art to come out of the dark Norwegian soul.
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How golden treasures made across the ages reflect everything that has been held as sacred.
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25 Jul 2012
Documentary exploring the life and work of the late writer and art critic John Berger.
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06 Nov 2016
Biography of the Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai, famous for his print The Great Wave.
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27 Jun 2017
Sam Roddick explores the enduring appeal of Botticelli's masterpiece The Birth of Venus.
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15 Feb 2016
How mankind's struggle with winter has been reflected in western art throughout the ages.
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22 Jan 2013
A look at how the era's sculpture casts a new light on medieval times in Britain.
Release date:
09 Feb 2011
A look at the sublime art of the Hudson River School.
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23 May 2018