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Season 1

  • S01E01 Painting Paradise

    • August 6, 2007
    • BBC Four

    Andrew traces the beginnings of Christian art in the declining Roman Empire, Egypt and medieval France, and reveals the ideas which lay behind the transition

  • S01E02 The Glory of Byzantium

    • August 13, 2007
    • BBC Four

    Andrew travels to Istanbul to immerse himself in the tumultuous world of the Byzantine Empire. He decodes the iconography of the art of the period and explains its continuing relevance.

  • S01E03 When East Meets West

    • August 20, 2007
    • BBC Four

    Andrew examines early Christian art and the reasons for its evolution during the Renaissance. He also reveals just how far modern artists have been influenced by the pre-perspective view of the world.