The Private Life of a Masterpiece

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'The Private Life of a Masterpiece' was a BBC documentary series examining great works of art. It ran for 5 seasons from 2001 to 2006, for a total of 22 episodes; each episode was 50 minutes long. A DVD set of the complete set of episodes was released in 2007 which re-ordered the documentaries to reflect art history.

Disc One: Renaissance Masterpieces
Sandro Botticelli: La Primavera
Paolo Uccello: The Battle of San Romano
Leonardo Da Vinci: The Last Supper
Piero della Francesca: The Resurrection

Disc Two: Seventeenth Century Masters
Rembrandt van Rijn: The Night Watch
Johannes Vermeer: The Art of Painting
Diego Velazquez: The Rokeby Venus

Disc Three: Masterpieces 1800-1850
Francisco Goya: The Third of May 1808
Eugene Delacroix: Liberty Leading the People
Katsushika Hokusai: The Great Wave

Disc Four: Masterpieces 1851-1900
Edouard Manet: Le déjeuner sur l'herbe
James McNeill Whistler: Whistler's Mother
Edvard Munch: The Scream

Disc Five: Impressionism and the Post-Impressionists
Auguste Renoir: Bal au moulin de la Galette, Montmartre
Vincent Van Gogh: Sunflowers
Georges Seurat: A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

Disc Six: Masterpieces of the Twentieth Century
Pablo Picasso: Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Gustav Klimt: The Kiss
Salvador Dali: Christ of Saint John of the Cross

Disc Seven: Masterpieces of Sculpture
Michelangelo: David
Edgar Degas: La Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans
Auguste Rodin: The Kiss