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Simon Schama explores the history of British portraiture, revealing the stories behind the most compelling images in British art and examining the ways portraiture is used to make a statement.
BBC Two
Season 1
5 episodes
Simon Schama
Self - Presenter
Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty
2024
Karin och Carl Larsson
2023
The Legends of Paris: A Tale of the 19th Century Artistic Scene
Simon Schama's History of Now
2022
Art of Germany
2010
Art of the Western World
Anh's Brush with Fame
2016
Lost Women Art
2021
A Musée Vous, A Musée Moi
2018
Rebuilding Ancient Rome
2015
Simon Schama's Power of Art
2006
Leonardo da Vinci
Becoming Frida Kahlo
The Art of Russia
2009
Art of France
2017
The Art of Gothic: Britain's Midnight Hour
2014
The Romantics and Us with Simon Schama
2020
Bares für Rares
2013
The Great Epochs of European Art
1989
Houses of Art