Renaissance: The Blood and The Beauty explores the lives of three rival artists - Michelangelo, Leonardo and Raphael – who ...

CHARLES Dance is taking on a completely new challenge in the BBC’s latest historical docu-drama, Renaissance: The Blood and The Beauty. Known for playing the commanding Lord Mountbatten in The ...

presenter of five series of Britain’s Lost Masterpieces for the BBC, and now the author of The Invention of British Art, an ...

The BBC series is split into six 60-minute episodes, each based on a section of the novel written by Dame Hilary Mantel, who died shortly before filming for series two began. The historical drama ...

The same applies to TV. By adding a single pluralising letter to the classic BBC art history series Civilisation (1969), the programme makers of Civilisations opened up the tantalising possibility ...

First broadcast in 2003, Imagine was a regular art series on BBC One hosted and executively ... in 2005 saw the presenter investigate A Short History of Tall Buildings by studying the technology ...