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Easter in Art (2002)

Easter in Art (2002)

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In this three part series Tim Marlow explores the Easter story as depicted in art from the time of the early Christians to the present day. Filmed throughout the world, the series explores the different ways artists have depicted the Easter story through the ages.

Episode 1 Betrayal
The first program begins with a look at several different versions of the Last Supper, from the earliest surviving - a 6th century mosaic - to Leonardo's fresco in Milan to Chris Ofili's contemporary interpretation of the scene. Through works by artists such as Giovanni Bellini, Mantegna, Bosch and Tintoretto, the program looks at Jesus' betrayal, arrest, torture and trial. At the end of it all Jesus is presented to the people for a final judgement, an episode known as 'Ecce Homo' and the subject of works by the 19th century French artist Honoré Daumier and the contemporary British Mark Wallinger.

Episode 2 Crucifixion
The crucifixion of Jesus Christ is the most iconic image in the history of Western art, depicted over and over again by artists since it first appeared in the early 5th century. Tim visits Varallo in Northern Italy where a 15th century Franciscan friar, Bernardino Caimi, recreated Jesus' last journey through the streets of Jerusalem in a series of sculptures and frescoes. Travelling to Italy and France Tim looks at two of the greatest crucifixions in the histroy of Christian art: Tintoretto's enormous crucifixion in the Scuola di San Rocco in Venice and Matthias Grünewald's harrowing crucifixion which forms part of the great Issenhiem Altarpiece. A contemporary treatment of the crucifixion comes from the British artist, Sebastian Horsley, who travelled to the Philippines to experience the sensation of crucifixion first hand.

Episode 3 Resurrection
The mourning over the body of Jesus Christ is depicted in two separate scenes known as the Lamentation and the Pieta, the subjects for work by Giotto, Michelangelo and Sam Taylor-Wood. After several days of entombment, Jesus is seen miraculously rising from the dead, the final proof of his divinity and his triumph over death. This, the most crucial episode in the entire Easter story, appears in several very different treatments by Grünewald and Rembrandt, as well as in Stanley Spencer's eccentric version in which the resurrection is relocated to his local churchyard. The series ends with a variety of contrasting interpretations of Jesus' ethereal ascension to heaven.

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Documentary 2002 66 576i (PAL) 1 2 3 4 5 6
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