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In separate episodes, art historian Tim Marlow explores the lives and works of Dürer, Michelangelo, and Raphael. Filming takes place throughout the world.

In separate episodes, art historian Tim Marlow explores the lives and works of Vermeer, Turner, and Van Gogh. Filming takes place throughout the world.

James Burke examines how various scientific, historical and social factors gave rise to technological advances, including atomic weapons, nautical navigation and a growing dependence on technology.

The Landscape of pleasure: The South of France and the Mediterranean become a generator of color-filled images of well-being that permeated the work of Monet, Cezanne and other Impressionists. Trouble in Utopia: The glass palaces of German architects give way to the functionalists. Concern for social programs, culminating in the town plans of le Corbusier, the speculations of Buckminster Fuller and the srange wasteland of Brasilia.

The Threshold of liberty: Surrealism was the last revolutionary art movement of the Twentieth Century. Dali, Mire, and Magritte were striving to liberate the unconscious mind through fantasy/reality. The View from the edge: Figurative Expressionism was ruined by the realities of the Nazi death camps whose horrors surpassed distortions of the human body an artist could imagine.