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Simon Schama's Power of Art Episodes

  1.

    Rothko

    8/8 A look at Mark Rothko, who believed that figurative art was a thing of the past.

  2. Picasso

    7/8 The story of Guernica, Picasso's extraordinary artistic response to a brutal massacre.

  3. Van Gogh

    6/8 Simon Schama investigates what drove Van Gogh to paint Wheatfield with Crows.

  4. Turner

    5/8 How JMW Turner created one of his most powerful paintings, The Slave Ship.

  5. David

    4/8 Simon tells the story behind Louis David's Death of Marat.

  6. Rembrandt

    3/8 Simon Schama tells the story of the rise and fall of Rembrandt in 17th-century Amsterdam.

  7. Bernini

    2/8 How Bernini's Ecstasy of St Thereza mixed sex and the sacred in 17th-century Rome.

  8. Caravaggio

    1/8 Simon reveals how Caravaggio changed the way artists portrayed religion.