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Host Simon Schama discusses eight works of art, the lives of their creators, and the impact they have made on the world.
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Beautiful. Fascinating. Emotional. Art is all of these. But only a few are powerful. These are the works that not only lift one off one's feet in their sheer artistry, they forever alter the human psyche. Focusing on eight iconic works of art, Power of Art reveals the history of visual imagination through the ages, from the murderous world of baroque Rome to paranoid, revolutionary Paris; from the carnage of civil-war Spain to the paradox of 1950s New York, caught between Cold War jitters and Manhattan glitter. A combination of dramatic reconstruction, spectacular photography and Simon Schama's unique, personal style of storytelling transport the viewer back to the intense moments that great works were conceived and born.
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