Susan Foister
Deputy Director and Curator of German Paintings at the National Gallery
4 episodes
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Albrecht Dürer
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Dürer, the creator of some of the most memorable images in the late Renaissance from his woodcut of a rhinoceros to his stunning self portraits.
12 November 2020
Also featuring: Giulia Bartrum, Ulinka Rublack
Judith beheading Holofernes
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how artists such as Gentileschi, Caravaggio and Klimt responded to this Bible story of the widow who killed an enemy general to save her people.
14 February 2019
Also featuring: John Gash, Ela Nutu Hall
The Fighting Temeraire
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss The Fighting Temeraire, JMW Turner's painting of a famous ship from the Battle of Trafalgar on its way to a breakers' yard on the Thames.
10 November 2016
Also featuring: David Blayney Brown, James Davey
Holbein at the Tudor Court
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Hans Holbein's role in the Tudor Court, painting Henry VIII as he asserted himself as supreme head of the Church during the Reformation.
15 October 2015
Also featuring: John Guy, Maria Hayward