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(jazzy music) Male: We're in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna and we're looking at a Lucas Cranach. This is a painting of Judith with the Head of Holofernes, which is a biblical...

(piano playing) Dr. Steven Zucker: By the time Titian painted Christ Crowned with Thorns, he was towards the end of his very long career. He was the greatest artist of the Venetian Renaissance and he...

(piano playing) Dr. Zucker: Almost always when we look at Greek sculpture we're looking at Roman copies, we're looking at marble copies of what had once been bronze, but bronze is...

(jazz music) Dr. Zucker: We're in the British Museum in London and we're looking at a series of magnificent low reliefs. Dr. Harris: These show a very dramatic lion hunt and...

(lighthearted music) Male Voiceover: We're in the Accademia in Venice, standing in front of a very late Titian. In fact, a painting so late in his life, that not only did he intend it for his...

(jazzy music) Male: I am there. I'm sitting on the cool marble. I'm listening. I'm rapt. Female: I want to be there! Male: (chuckles) So do I! Female: Alma-Tadema has captured...

(bell ringing) Man: The intent of the Gothic church was to create heaven on earth. It was a way that medieval religious ideas were fused with classical ideas, what we call neoplatonism that allowed...

Female: So, here we are in this foyer leading the American Gallery at the Portland Art Museum. We see a line up of portraits, some of them, the ones that are closest to us, we can see their very...

(piano music playing) Steven: We're in The Louvre in Paris and we're looking at a large, vertical portrait of Charles I, King of England. Beth: Charles I was self-conscious about being...