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Picasso

Simon Schama on the making of eight great works of art. The story of Picasso's Guernica, from the bombing massacre that inspired it, to Picasso's artistic response.

Documentary series in which historian Simon Schama recounts the high drama in the making of eight artistic masterpieces. He tells the story of Picasso's epic Guernica, looking at both the Nazi bombing massacre that inspired the painting and Picasso's extraordinary artistic response.

The film combines Schama's trademark sassy storytelling with dramatisation to ask what art can do in the face of atrocity.

1 hour

Last on

Tue 21 Nov 2023 02:00

Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Simon Schama
Picasso Pep Cortes
Maria Therese Andrea Villalonga
Producer Steve Condie

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