The World’s Greatest Paintings
Andrew Marr tells the stories behind 10 of the greatest paintings in the world - exploring works by Picasso, Van Gogh, Monet and more.
Andrew Marr tells the stories behind 10 of the greatest paintings in the world - exploring works by Picasso, Van Gogh, Monet and more.
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Andrew Marr starts his journey at the Louvre, where every year more than eight million people queue for hours to get a...
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The story behind perhaps the most famous painting at the National Gallery - Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh.
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The story behind JMW Turner's The Fighting Temeraire, a painting voted Britain's favourite.
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Andrew Marr tells the harrowing and uplifting tale of Pablo Picasso's 'barbed-wire face-mask' of a painting, Weeping...
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Claude Monet was the leading figure in Impressionism, and his Water Lilies cycle was his final gift to the world.
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The story behind the most iconic painting of the English countryside ever created, John Constable's The Hay Wain.
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Andrew discovers the amazing tale of the greatest painting of the Spanish Golden Age, Diego Velazquez's only nude, The...
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Andrew heads to Amsterdam to unravel the extraordinary journey of Rembrandt van Rijn, a risk-taking young artist with...
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Andrew follows John Everett Millais's Ophelia from its unlikely origins as part of a shocking artist rebellion, to...
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The tale of a painting so magical that grown men have been said to faint in front of it - Botticelli's The Birth of...