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Focusing on eight iconic works of art, this series reveals the history of visual imagination through the ages. A combination of reconstruction, photography and storytelling transport the viewer back to the intense moments when great works were conceived and born: the murderous, messianic world of Baroque Rome; opulent, parvenu Amsterdam; paranoid, revolutionary Paris; Victorian England suffocating beneath riches and righteousness; the madhouses and brothels of Provence; the carnage of civil war Spain; 1950s New York, caught between Cold War jitters and Manhattan glitter. In each place, a great artist is backed into a corner, facing a crisis, given a chance to confound his rivals, enemies and critics one more time.

Disc 2 includes:
Jacques Louis David's "The Death of Marat"
Turner's "Slave Ship"
Van Gogh's "Wheatfield With Crows" 

One of 3 videodiscs (ca. 400 min. total) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Audio: English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired.
Each episode runs approximately 60 min.