Simon Schama's Power of Art

Season 1 Episode 2: Bernini

Oct 26, 2006NR50m8.4

Italian sculptor Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) becomes the hottest artist in Rome.

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Season 1 Episodes:

Episode 1 Caravaggio

1. Caravaggio

Aired: Oct 19, 2006

The violent life and tumultuous times of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1...

Episode 2 Bernini

2. Bernini

Aired: Oct 26, 2006

Italian sculptor Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) becomes the hottest artist i...

Episode 3 Rembrandt

3. Rembrandt

Aired: Nov 2, 2006

The rise and fall of Holland's great painter Rembrandt van Rijn (1606 - 1669)...

Episode 4 David

4. David

Aired: Nov 9, 2006

This time Simon rather uses the works of the iron-monger's son, orphaned at 7...

Episode 5 Turner

5. Turner

Aired: Nov 16, 2006

Simon argues The Slave ship, one of 7 of his works causing a scandal at the 1...

Episode 6 Van Gogh

6. Van Gogh

Aired: Nov 23, 2006

Simon sketches how Vincent Van Gogh was foremost a world-improver, who cared ...

Episode 7 Picasso

7. Picasso

Aired: Nov 30, 2006

Simon sketches how Pablo Picasso, the Andalusian (south Spanish) hedonistic k...

Episode 8 Rothko

8. Rothko

Aired: Dec 7, 2006

Mark Rothko, the Anglicized name of a Russian Jewish family which immigrated ...


Info about Simon Schama's Power of Art

Network: BBC Two

Genres:Drama, Documentary, History