Simon Schama's Power of Art (Hd)

Focusing on eight iconic works of art such as Caravaggio's David and Goliath, David's Death of Marat and Picasso's Guernica, this series reveals the history of visual imagination through the ages. A combination of dramatic reconstruction, spectacular photography and Simon Schama's unique and personal style transport the viewer back to the intense moments the great works were conceived and born; from the murderous world of baroque Rome; paranoid, revolutionary Paris and the carnage of civil war Spain to the paradox of 1950s New York, caught between Cold War jitters and Manhattan glitter. Simon Schama's Power of Art is the epic story of an unfolding force, a chance to witness the power of the individuals who changed the way we view the world.

Sun, Nov 10	1:00 P.M.	Caravaggio NH Explore (11.2) David with the Head of Goliath (1601) - Rome 1603.
Sun, Nov 17	12:00 P.M.	Bernini NH Explore (11.2) The Ecstasy of St Theresa (1652) - Gian Lorenzo Bernini, boy wonder, then adult prodigy - sculptor, architect, composer, as well as a dashing Cavalier, and the personal friend of Pope Urban VIII.
Sun, Nov 17	1:00 P.M.	Rembrandt NH Explore (11.2) The Conspiracy of the Batavians under Claudius Civilus (circa 1666) - In The Night Watch and his portraits of the richest merchants of Amsterdam, Rembrandt has done the impossible: made something heroic, dramatic and grand out of a world of merchants and money.
Sun, Nov 24	12:00 P.M.	David NH Explore (11.2) The Death of Marat (1793) - When the arch-denouncer and violent journalist Jean-Paul Marat, the 'friend of the people', is stabbed in his bath in July 1793, Jacques-Louis David - painter for the Revolution - promises to make an image of the martyr, for France and for the world.
Sun, Nov 24	1:00 P.M.	Turner NH Explore (11.2) Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying - Typhoon Coming On ("The Slave Ship") (1840) May, 1840.
Sun, Dec 1	1:00 P.M.	David NH Explore (11.2) The Death of Marat (1793) - When the arch-denouncer and violent journalist Jean-Paul Marat, the 'friend of the people', is stabbed in his bath in July 1793, Jacques-Louis David - painter for the Revolution - promises to make an image of the martyr, for France and for the world.