Seeing Salvation

Apr 02, 2000 (en) Documentary [0] Min
  • First Air Date
    Apr 02, 2000
  • Production
    BBC
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  • Original title
    Seeing Salvation
  • Release
    Apr 02, 2000
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Overview

Christianity has produced some of the greatest works of art of all time, in which believers and non-believers alike can explore the great themes of life and death. It is the language in which Leonardo and Michelangelo, Dali and Rembrandt speak to us all about love and suffering, loss and hope. To mark the year 2000, these four programmes, written and presented by Neil MacGregor, Director of the National Gallery, London, consider how artists over two millennia have tackled the extraordinarily difficult task of representing Christ. Without contemporary accounts of Jesus' appearance, artists through the ages have been free to create many images of him - images that sometimes reflect the spiritual world of the artist and other times the desires of the patron or the needs of the spectator. Seeing Salvation is a four part series surveying the historical representations of Jesus Christ in Western European art and sculpture over the centuries since Roman Times.

  1. Music Supervisor

  2. Patricia Wheatley

    Producer

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  1. Neil MacGregor

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Casts : 1 / Crews : 7

Season 1 ( 2000-04-02)

The Face

Episode: 1

The Baby

Episode: 2

The Cross

Episode: 3

The Promise

Episode: 4
Apr 02, 2000 (en)
Documentary
[0] Min
  • First Air Date Apr 02, 2000
  • Production
    BBC
  • Rotten tomato 0%
Original Title Seeing Salvation
en

Overview

Christianity has produced some of the greatest works of art of all time, in which believers and non-believers alike can explore the great themes of life and death. It is the language in which Leonardo and Michelangelo, Dali and Rembrandt speak to us all about love and suffering, loss and hope. To mark the year 2000, these four programmes, written and presented by Neil MacGregor, Director of the National Gallery, London, consider how artists over two millennia have tackled the extraordinarily difficult task of representing Christ. Without contemporary accounts of Jesus' appearance, artists through the ages have been free to create many images of him - images that sometimes reflect the spiritual world of the artist and other times the desires of the patron or the needs of the spectator. Seeing Salvation is a four part series surveying the historical representations of Jesus Christ in Western European art and sculpture over the centuries since Roman Times.

  1. Music Supervisor

  2. Patricia Wheatley

    Producer