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Édouard-Manet

Impressionists episode 1 – Édouard Manet

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Impressionists episode 1 – Édouard Manet: impressionists and their circle have become the international superstars of Western painting. But whilst their popularity is greater than ever, it is easy to forget the revolutionary nature of the Impressionists’ art. In this series, Tim Marlow takes us on a journey through the great art movement of the late nineteenth-century and explores some of the most beautiful paintings ever created.     Édouard Manet is often cited as the father of Impressionism, and yet he stubbornly refused to show with them and was careful to maintain an aesthetic distance from Monet, Renoir and […]

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Titian Vecellio

Great Artists episode 17 – Titian Vecellio

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Titian Vecellio – Tim Marlow reveals how the Renaissance movement found a new centre in Venice and examines the life and work of Tiziano Vecellio, known to English-speakers as Titian, who pioneered the use of oils with a radical approach to light, colour and brush strokes.     His talent was recognised across Europe and he painted portraits of some of the 16th century’s most powerful figures, including Pope Paul III and Charles V of Spain.   Great Artists episode 17 – Titian Vecellio   This major 26-part series takes a fresh look at the most important artworks of some

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Great Artists episode 16 – Raphael

Great Artists episode 16 – Raphael

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Raphael – Italian Renaissance painter Raffaello Santi, known better simply as Raphael, who was born in 1483 and achieved so much in his 37-year life that he was considered equal to Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo.     He was highly regarded for his many studies of the Madonna and Child, and artists adopted his idealised forms as the model of beauty until the end of the 19th century.   Great Artists   This major 26-part series takes a fresh look at the most important artworks of some of the greatest artists in history. Shot on location in over fifty

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Michelangelo Buonarroti

Great Artists episode 15 – Michelangelo Buonarroti

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Great Artists episode 15 – Michelangelo Buonarroti – Tim Marlow charts the life and work of celebrated Renaissance sculptor, architect and painter Michelangelo Buonarroti, most famous for the extraordinary scenes that adorn the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican.     Great Artists   This major 26-part series takes a fresh look at the most important artworks of some of the greatest artists in history. Shot on location in over fifty museums, churches and palaces throughout Europe and the United States, this series is a comprehensive survey of the history of Western art. Both intelligent and informative, it’s

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Leonardo

Great Artists episode 13 – Leonardo da Vinci

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Tim Marlow profiles scientist, engineer, inventor and painter Leonardo da Vinci, whose extraordinary artistic genius gave rise to masterpieces including the Mona Lisa, the Annunciation and the Last Supper.     Breaking new ground in portraiture and historical imagery, this giant of the Italian Renaissance used his wide-ranging skills to make a unique contribution to the development of European art.   Great Artists – Leonardo da Vinci   This major 26-part series takes a fresh look at the most important artworks of some of the greatest artists in history. Shot on location in over fifty museums, churches and palaces throughout Europe

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Whistler

Great Artists episode 9 – Whistler

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Whistler Whistler was the first great international American artist, hugely well travelled, a painter and printmaker who bridged the gap between Impressionist Paris and symbolist London. He was an intelligent and original artist who radically proclaimed that art rather than documenting the visual world around us – should be experienced for its own sake.     His Arrangement in Grey and Black, a portrait of Whistler’s mother, is one of the great portraits in the history of art, not least for its elusive title. Whilst his Nocturne Black and Gold, was thought so radical that Whistler had to go to

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Stubbs

Great Artists episode 5 – Stubbs

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Stubbs George Stubbs is the greatest painter of horses who ever lived, but so much more than that – a man who literally dissected his subject before he felt able to paint it. But Stubbs was no dispassionate observer instead he brought a weight of feeling to his work that sometimes makes the spine tingle.     Stubbs’ great triumph is Whistlejacket, a portrait of a horse without a background that concentrates the eye on the beautifully observed body of the greatest racehorse of the day. Tim Marlow also looks at Stubbs’ lesser known masterpieces, such as his striking depiction

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John Russell

Australia’s Lost Impressionist

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Australia’s Lost Impressionist: a new beautifully crafted documentary film reveals the close relationships and influence enjoyed by Australia’s lost impressionist, John Russell, within the French avant-garde in the late 1880s.     Artist, John Peter Russell (1858-1930), was considered locally at home in his day as being handsome, independently wealthy through an inheritance, as well as decidedly debonair. He joined the ranks of those both local and from afar, who travelled overseas to steep themselves not only in the artistic atmosphere of Europe and England, but also in their traditions. He was seeking an adventure through art, only to discover

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Caravaggio

Great Artists episode 4 – Caravaggio

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Caravaggio Of all the great artists, Caravaggio seems to speak most intensely to the modern world. He lived a brief and tumultuous life, mocking authority and even murdering a man; he spent four years on the run, a fugitive from justice, but he always painted, bringing religious art to life in paintings so powerful and naturalistic that some saw them as miracles in themselves.     In the programme Tim Marlow looks at paintings such as The Musicians, a melancholy celebration of music with a slight erotic edge, and as well as The Conversion of St. Paul, an expression of

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Piero-della-Francesca

Great Artists episode 2 – Piero della Francesca

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Piero della Francesca This episode looks at the life and work of the 15th century Italian artist Piero della Francesca. With only 26 surviving works Piero has been seen as one of the mystery men of western art. But his calm, monumental, often enigmatic images mark an important step in the development of Renaissance art. This fascinating film reveals the man behind the myth, an artist that paved the way for likes of Leonardo and Michelangelo.     In his typically enthusiastic and accessible manner Tim Marlow explores works such as the huge fresco cycle The Legend of the True

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Giotto

Great Artists episode 1 – Giotto

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Giotto Giotto di Bondone, the son of a Tuscan shepherd. Born in 1267, Giotto began his apprenticeship at the age of 12, and with his naturalistic treatment of medieval Christian iconography, was recognised as the first in a line of great painters and architects who contributed to the Italian Renaissance.     Giotto’s contemporary, the banker and chronicler Giovanni Villani, wrote that Giotto was “the most sovereign master of painting in his time, who drew all his figures and their postures according to nature” and of his publicly recognized “talent and excellence”. In his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters,

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Monet to Matisse

Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse

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Claude Monet was an avid horticulturist and arguably the most important painter of gardens in the history of art, but he was not alone. Great artists like Van Gogh, Bonnard, Sorolla, Sargent, Pissarro and Matisse all saw the garden as a powerful subject for their art. These great artists, along with many other famous names, feature in an innovative and extensive exhibition from The Royal Academy of Arts, London.     From the exhibition walls to the wonder and beauty of artists’ gardens like Giverny and Seebüll, the film takes a magical and widely travelled journey to discover how different

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