Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

War paintings

Guernica (Spanish: [ɡeɾˈnika]; Basque: [ɡernika]) is a large 1937 oil painting by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. It is one of his best-known works, regarded by many art critics as the most moving and powerful anti-war painting in history.

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  1. Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Eugene Delacroix's painting Liberty Leading the People, his celebrated depiction of the events of the 1830 July Revolution.

    20 October 2011

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    Featuring: Tim Blanning, Tamar Garb, Simon Lee

     
  2. Picasso's Guernica

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Pablo Picasso's Guernica, which he painted in 1937 soon after the bombing of that Basque town in the Spanish Civil War, and its wider context.

    2 November 2017

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    Featuring: Mary Vincent, Gijs van Hensbergen, Dacia Viejo Rose