Great artists of the Italian Renaissance

Part I : Lecture 1. Italy and the Renaissance ; Lecture 2. From Gothic to Renaissance ; Lecture 3. Brunelleschi and Ghiberti in Florence ; Lecture 4. Donatello and Luca della Robbia ; Lecture 5. Masaccio ; Lecture 6. Masaccio: the Brancacci Chapel

Lecture 7. Fra Angelico and Fra Filippo Lippi ; Lecture 8. Three specialists ; Lecture 9. Donatello and Padua ; Lecture 10. Piero della Francesca: individual works ; Lecture 11. Piero della Francesca: Legend of the True Cross ; Lecture 12. Pageant of life in Renaissance Florence.

Part II : Lecture 13. The heroic nude ; Lecture 14. Sculpture small and large ; Lecture 15. Botticelli: spirituality and sensuality ; Lecture 16. Botticelli and the trouble in Italy ; Lecture 17. Filippino Lippi ; Lecture 18. Leonardo da Vinci: portraits and altarpieces

Lecture 19. Leonardo da Vinci: The Last Supper ; Lecture 20. Michelangelo: Florentine works ; Lecture 21. Michelangelo: Roman projects ; Lecture 22. Michelangelo: The Sistine Chapel ceiling ; Lecture 23. Raphael: Madonnas and portraits ; Lecture 24. Raphael: history paintings.

Part III : Lecture 25. Urbino: microcosm of Renaissance civilization ; Lecture 26. Andrea Mantegna in Padua and Mantua ; Lecture 27. Venice: Byzantine, Gothic, and Renaissance ; Lecture 28. Celebrating the living city ; Lecture 29. Giovanni Bellini: the early years ; Lecture 30. Antonello da Messina and Giovanni Bellini

Lecture 31. Giovanni Bellini: the late years ; Lecture 32. Giorgione ; Lecture 33. Giorgione or Titian? ; Lecture 34. Titian: the early years ; Lecture 35. A culture in crisis ; Lecture 36. The Renaissance reformed.