Renaissance Revolution Season 1 Episode 3 Piero Della Francesca - Baptism Of Christ

TV Show: Renaissance Revolution

Aired on: 8:00 PM on October 30th, 2010 – Saturday

Channel: BBC TWO Channel

Episode Details: Season 1 Episode 3

Episode Name: Piero Della Francesca – Baptism Of Christ

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Matthew Collings concludes the series by looking at the invention of Renaissance painting.
The Baptism of Christ by Italian master Piero Della Francesca showed the household names of the High Renaissance how to use the big new trick of Renaissance painting – illusionism and perspective. Without him their achievements would have been impossible, but change came so rapidly in the Renaissance that the qualities that made Piero famous in his own time quickly went out of fashion.
The Baptism was bought for the National Gallery in 1861 and later Cezanne and Picasso saw him as the real deal: the authentic, honest Renaissance, a model for modern painting. Now he is so in tune with secular modern taste that a tourist trail links his work in the beautiful hills of Umbria, Tuscany, and a few galleries around the world who own a precious panel by him.Collings follows his trail and hunts down the forensic detail in the highest-resolution images of paintings yet seen on television.

Renaissance Revolution Season 1 Episode 3 Piero Della Francesca - Baptism Of Christ

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Renaissance Revolution Season 1 Episode 2 Hieronymus Bosch - The Garden Of Earthly Delights

TV Show: Renaissance Revolution

Aired on: 8:15 PM on October 23rd, 2010 – Saturday

Channel: BBC TWO Channel

Episode Details: Season 1 Episode 2

Episode Name: Hieronymus Bosch – The Garden Of Earthly Delights

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In the second programme of his new series on Renaissance painting, artist and writer Matthew Collings steps into the mysterious invented world of The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch, painted c.1505.
This imposing work, full of strange and fantastical details, contains one of the most famous images in all of art: a man with a tree for a body, who gazes out at us from the section of the painting representing hell. The tree-man’s face is generally thought to be the artist’s self-portrait but, like almost everything else about Hieronymus Bosch – including the meaning of this, his most famous painting – no one knows for sure.
Using the latest high-resolution digital technology, Matthew Collings is able to explore this extraordinary painting in minute detail and unravel some of the arcane messages that Bosch has woven into it through his use of symbols and unsettling inversions of scale – giant birds drop fruit into the mouths of nude humans, slithering creatures invade paradise, a devil-bird devours a man whole.

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Renaissance Revolution Season 1 Episode 1 Raphael – The Madonna Of The Meadow

TV Show: Renaissance Revolution

Aired on: 8:00 PM on October 16th, 2010 – Saturday

Channel: BBC TWO Channel

Episode Details: Season 1 Episode 1

Episode Name: Raphael – The Madonna Of The Meadow

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The new series on Renaissance painting, written and presented by Matthew Collings, begins with an artistic investigation into one of the most radiant and beautiful images in all of art history, The Madonna of the Meadow, painted in 1505 by Raphael.
Renaissance art has become part of the 21st-century heritage industry but when Raphael was alive, it was a startling new form of visual expression, and Raphael’s vibrant ‘realism’ was striking and fresh. It became the model for western art for the next 400 years, right up until the birth of Modernism.
As much as it was a cultural ‘rebirth’, the Renaissance was also a revolution in ideas about reality. Matthew Collings sets out to remind us of how radical Renaissance paintings were when they were made, as well as opening our eyes to what is still truly great about them. In this programme he deconstructs The Madonna of the Meadow with the help of the very latest high-resolution digital technology, which allows him to explore the inner secrets of Raphael’s painterly effects with a clarity and at a level of detail never before seen on television.

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