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Simon Schama explores the history of British portraiture, revealing the stories behind the most compelling images in British art and examining the ways portraiture is used to make a statement.
BBC Two
Season 1
5 episodes
Simon Schama
Self - Presenter
Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty
2024
The Legends of Paris: A Tale of the 19th Century Artistic Scene
Lost Women Art
2021
Simon Schama's History of Now
2022
Art of the Western World
Anh's Brush with Fame
2016
Art of Germany
2010
Karin och Carl Larsson
2023
Simon Schama's Power of Art
2006
The Art of Russia
2009
Becoming Frida Kahlo
Rebuilding Ancient Rome
2015
The Great Epochs of European Art
1989
A Musée Vous, A Musée Moi
2018
Baroque! From St Peter's to St Paul's
The High Art of the Low Countries
2013
Leonardo da Vinci
Houses of Art
Bares für Rares
The Romantics and Us with Simon Schama
2020