The Private Life of a Masterpiece
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The Private Life of a Masterpiece is 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 7-DVD box set of the first five series was released in 2007, which re-arranged the documentaries into genres from art history. Further episodes have been broadcast in 2006 and 2009.
The series is produced by independent TV company Fulmar TV, based in Cardiff, for BBC Two. The series producer, who also devised the concept of the programme, is Jeremy Bugler.
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 Velázquez: The Rokeby Venus
Disc Three: Masterpieces 1800-1850
Francisco Goya: The Third of May 1808
Eugène Delacroix: Liberty Leading the People
Katsushika Hokusai: The Great Wave
Disc Four: Masterpieces 1851-1900
Édouard 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 Dalí: 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
A Christmas series was broadcast in December 2006 :
The Private Life of a Christmas Masterpiece
Jan van Eyck: The Annunciation
Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Census At Bethlehem
Paul Gauguin: God's Child
An Easter special was broadcast on 11 April 2009 :
The Private Life of an Easter Masterpiece
Caravaggio: The Taking Of Christ