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Simon Schama’s Power of Art (BBC, 2006) (1280x720p HD, 50fps, soft Eng subs) Historian Simon Schama recounts the story of eight moments of high drama in the making of eight artistic masterpieces. E01 Caravaggio Simon Schama recounts the story of eight moments of high drama in the making of eight masterpieces. How Caravaggio changed the way artists portrayed religious icons. E02 Bernini Schama looks at how Gian Lorenzo Bernini's Ecstasy of St Thereza shows a nun in the state of orgasmic bliss and wonders how it was ever allowed. E03 Rembrandt Why did one of the world's greatest artists cut up his own masterpiece, The Conspiracy of the Batavians under Claudius Civilis? Simon Schama tells the story of the rise and fall of Rembrandt van Rijn in glittering 17th-century Amsterdam E04 David Schama looks at Jacques Louis David's revolutionary painting Death of Marat. E05 Turner In this revealing blend of history and art, Simon Schama tells the extraordinary story of how Britain's greatest painter, JMW Turner, created one of his most powerful paintings, The Slave Ship. E06 Van Gogh In 1890, Vincent van Gogh painted his great masterpiece Wheatfield with Crows, but a few weeks later, he killed himself. Was the painting a cry of anguish that he would never realise his dream of creating an art revolution, or was it a shout of triumph that this kind of painting would be the new art for the people? E07 Picasso Simon Schama tells the story of Picasso's epic Guernica, looking at both the Nazi bombing massacre that inspired the painting and Picasso's extraordinary artistic response. The film combines Schama's trademark sassy storytelling with dramatisation to ask what art can do in the face of atrocity. E08 Rothko Mark Rothko believed that tradition was all used up, and that figurative art no longer had what it took to connect us, viscerally, to the human tragedy. Only a completely new visual language of strong feeling could wake us from moral stupor. So he set himself - and New York - a test. First broadcast: October - December 2006 Duration: 1 hour per episode Torrent dead? Request reseed in comments at x1337x.ws - or ask at elsonroa at tutanota.com