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Simon Schama's Power of ArtEpisodes

    Rothko

    8/8A look at Mark Rothko, who believed that figurative art was a thing of the past.

    Picasso

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

    Van Gogh

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

    Turner

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

    David

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

    Rembrandt

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

    Bernini

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

    Caravaggio

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