The Private Life of a Masterpiece

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Edvard Munch: The Scream
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Tells the life-story of the painting more widely reproduced than any other, even the Mona Lisa. It shows exactly how and why the Norwegian expressionist Edvard Munch arrived at his .. show full overview
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Michelangelo: David
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Michelangelo's David is one of the marvels of Renaissance art, yet was carved from a block of marble that was so shallow that two other master sculptors had declared it unusable. This .. show full overview
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Sandro Botticelli: La Primavera
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Botticelli's painting is extraordinarily beautiful; his portrayal of Flora, the central character, reveals a face you might find in London or Bologna or Boston today. But what the .. show full overview
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Paolo Uccello: The Battle of San Romano
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Among the greatest of all depictions of battle, these three panels were break throughs in painting technique, so that contemporaries must have viewed them in awe. Also they were the victims of an audacious art crime.
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Leonardo da Vinci: The Last Supper
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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 .. show full overview
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Piero della Francesca: The Resurrection
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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 .. show full overview

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