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The Private Life of a Masterpiece - Season 2

First aired: 2/9/2002 4 episodes
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Episodes

1. Rembrandt van Rijn: The Night Watch

Aired: 2/9/2002

Why should a painting of a group of part-time Amsterdam militiamen, dressed up for an occasion that wasn't serious anyway, have become the most revered painting in Holland? The full story of Rembrandt's masterpiece.

2. Johannes Vermeer: The Art of Painting

Aired: 2/10/2002

Of all Vermeer's paintings, it was probably this picture that he held in greatest esteem. It was the painting he used to show off his skills to customers. A customer three centuries after he died was none other than Adolf Hitler

3. Diego Velázquez: The Rokeby Venus

Aired: 2/11/2002

She's been called 'the most smackable bum in art'. Velazquez's portrait of a young woman lying naked on a couch gazing at her reflection in a mirror held by Cupid has an extraordinary story

4. Eugene Delacroix: Liberty Leading the People

Aired: 4/2/2005

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