Although Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece -- the Mona Lisa -- is undoubtedly the world's most famous painting, he was also a scientist, engineer and inventor who drew plans of flying machines and made accurate studies of human anatomy. In this 14 par...
This program presents Western Art, artists, painters, the Renaissance, the Golden Age and the Reformation of Medieval Florence, and it includes the art and artists Michelangelo, Raphael, Da Vinci, Holbein, Dürer, Titian, Ambassadors, Mona Lisa, The...
In the second episode of The Nude in Art, we look at the role that the nude played in the Renaissance. Tim Marlow travels to England, France and Italy as part of a lively visual journey illustrating how the Christian idea of nudity associated with s...