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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.