SIMON SCHAMA'S THE POWER OF ART: Disc 1 (2006)

Cast

Plot

Focusing on eight iconic works of art this series reveals the history of visual imagination through the ages. Using a combination of dramatic reconstruction, spectacular photography and Simon Schama's enthusiastic and idiosyncratic narration the viewer is led from the murderous world of baroque Rome to paranoid, revolutionary Paris and the carnage of civil war Spain to the paradox of a 1950s New York caught between Cold War jitters and Manhattan glitter. Excellent! This disc looks at Caravaggio's David and Goliath, Bernini's Ecstasy of Saint Theresa and Picasso's Guernica.