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Simon Schama's Power of Art Episodes

    Rothko

    8/8 Mark Rothko believed figurative art could no longer connect us to the human tragedy.

    Picasso

    7/8 The story of Guernica, Picasso's extraordinary artistic response to a brutal massacre.

    Van Gogh

    6/8 Simon Schama investigates what drove Van Gogh to paint Wheat Field with Crows.

    Turner

    5/8 How JMW Turner created one of his most powerful paintings, The Slave Ship.

    David

    4/8 Simon tells the story behind Louis David's Death of Marat.

    Rembrandt

    3/8 Simon Schama tells the story of the rise and fall of Rembrandt in 17th-century Amsterdam.

    Bernini

    2/8 How Bernini's Ecstasy of St Thereza mixed sex and the sacred in 17th-century Rome.

    Caravaggio

    1/8 Simon reveals how Caravaggio changed the way artists portrayed religion.