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Power of art: Caravaggio
Backed by a Church struggling to connect with the faithful, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio painted images imbued with physical immediacy and in-your-face drama. As this program shows, there was a trade-off: Caravaggio's biblical scenes frequently...
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History of western art: the age of splendor
This program's focus is on the Baroque and the Dutch masters, including Vermeer, Rembrandt, Rubens, Caravaggio and Bernini, who coupled with spectacular new limits of realism and expression that fostered such great art as Las Meninas, Marriage a la ...