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-'''''The Private Life of a Masterpiece''''' is a [[BBC]] documentary series examining great works of art. It ran for 5 seasons from 2001 to 2006, for a total of 22 episodes; each episode was 50 minutes long. A 7-DVD box set of the first five series was released in 2007, which re-arranged the documentaries into genres from art history. Further episodes have been broadcast in 2006 and 2009.  
-The series is produced by independent TV company Fulmar TV, based in [[Cardiff]], for [[BBC Two]]. The series producer, who also devised the concept of the programme, is Jeremy Bugler.+'''''Sunflowers''''' (original title, in French: '''''Tournesols''''') are the subject of two [[serial imagery|series]] of [[still life]] paintings by the [[Netherlands|Dutch]] painter [[Vincent van Gogh]]. The earlier series executed in Paris in 1887 gives the flowers laying on the ground, while the second set executed a year later in Arles shows bouquets of [[sunflowers]] in a vase. In the artist's mind both sets were linked by the name of his friend [[Paul Gauguin]], who acquired two of the Paris versions. About eight months later Van Gogh hoped to welcome and to impress Gauguin again with ''Sunflowers'', now part of the painted ''[[Vincent van Gogh's Décoration for the Yellow House|décoration]]'' he prepared for the guestroom of his ''[[Yellow House (painting)|Yellow House]]'' where Gauguin was supposed to stay in Arles. After Gauguin's departure Van Gogh imagined the two major versions as wings of the ''Berceuse Triptych'', and finally he included them in his [[Vincent van Gogh's display at Les XX, 1890|exhibit]] at [[Les XX]] in Bruxelles.
-'''Disc One: [[Renaissance]] Masterpieces'''<br />+As Van Gogh anticipated in 1889, the ''Sunflowers'' finally became his, and served - combined with [[Self-portraits by Vincent van Gogh|self-portraits]] - as his artistical arms and alter ego up to the present day: no retrospective Van Gogh exhibition since 1901 voluntarily missed to include them, and a wealth of forgeries as well as record-setting price payed at auction acknowledges their public success: Perhaps, because Van Gogh's ''Sunflowers'' are more than his or him - they may be considered, as Gauguin put it, ''the flower''.
-[[Sandro Botticelli]]: ''[[Primavera (painting)|La Primavera]]''<br />+
-[[Paolo Uccello]]: ''[[The Battle of San Romano]]''<br />+
-[[Leonardo da Vinci]]: ''[[The Last Supper]]''<br />+
-[[Piero della Francesca]]: ''[[Resurrection_(Piero_della_Francesca)|The Resurrection]]''<br />+
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-'''Disc Two: Seventeenth century Masters'''<br />+
-[[Rembrandt van Rijn]]: ''[[The Night Watch]]''<br />+
-[[Johannes Vermeer]]: ''[[The Art of Painting]]''<br />+
-[[Diego Velázquez]]: ''[[The Rokeby Venus]]''<br />+
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-'''Disc Three: Masterpieces 1800-1850'''<br />+
-[[Francisco Goya]]: ''[[The Third of May 1808]]''<br />+
-[[Eugène Delacroix]]: ''[[Liberty Leading the People]]''<br />+
-[[Katsushika Hokusai]]: ''[[The Great Wave]]''<br />+
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-'''Disc Four: Masterpieces 1851-1900'''<br />+
-[[Édouard Manet]]: ''[[Le déjeuner sur l'herbe]]''<br />+
-[[James McNeill Whistler]]: ''[[Whistler's Mother]]''<br />+
-[[Edvard Munch]]: ''[[The Scream]]''<br />+
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-'''Disc Five: [[Impressionism]] and the [[Post-Impressionists]]'''<br />+
-[[Auguste Renoir]]: ''[[Bal au moulin de la Galette, Montmartre]]''<br />+
-[[Vincent van Gogh]]: ''[[Sunflowers (series of paintings)|Sunflowers]]''<br />+
-[[Georges Seurat]]: ''[[A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte]]''<br />+
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-'''Disc Six: Masterpieces of the Twentieth century'''<br />+
-[[Pablo Picasso]]: ''[[Les Demoiselles d'Avignon]]''<br />+
-[[Gustav Klimt]]: ''[[The Kiss (Klimt painting)|The Kiss]]''<br />+
-[[Salvador Dalí]]: ''[[Christ of Saint John of the Cross]]''<br />+
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-'''Disc Seven: Masterpieces of [[Sculpture]]'''<br />+
-[[Michelangelo]]: ''[[David (Michelangelo)|David]]''<br />+
-[[Edgar Degas]]: ''[[La Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans]]''<br />+
-[[Auguste Rodin]]: ''[[The Kiss (Rodin sculpture)|The Kiss]]''+
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-A Christmas series was broadcast in December 2006 : 
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-'''The Private Life of a Christmas Masterpiece'''<br /> 
-[[Jan van Eyck]]: ''[[Annunciation (van Eyck, Washington)|The Annunciation]]''<br /> 
-[[Pieter Bruegel the Elder]]: ''[[:Image:Pieter Bruegel d. Ä. 087.jpg|Census At Bethlehem]]''<br /> 
-[[Paul Gauguin]]: ''[[God's Child]]'' 
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-An Easter special was broadcast on 11 April 2009 : 
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-'''The Private Life of an Easter Masterpiece'''<br /> 
-[[Caravaggio]]: ''[[The Taking of Christ (Caravaggio)|The Taking Of Christ]]''<br /> 
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Sunflowers (original title, in French: Tournesols) are the subject of two series of still life paintings by the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh. The earlier series executed in Paris in 1887 gives the flowers laying on the ground, while the second set executed a year later in Arles shows bouquets of sunflowers in a vase. In the artist's mind both sets were linked by the name of his friend Paul Gauguin, who acquired two of the Paris versions. About eight months later Van Gogh hoped to welcome and to impress Gauguin again with Sunflowers, now part of the painted décoration he prepared for the guestroom of his Yellow House where Gauguin was supposed to stay in Arles. After Gauguin's departure Van Gogh imagined the two major versions as wings of the Berceuse Triptych, and finally he included them in his exhibit at Les XX in Bruxelles.

As Van Gogh anticipated in 1889, the Sunflowers finally became his, and served - combined with self-portraits - as his artistical arms and alter ego up to the present day: no retrospective Van Gogh exhibition since 1901 voluntarily missed to include them, and a wealth of forgeries as well as record-setting price payed at auction acknowledges their public success: Perhaps, because Van Gogh's Sunflowers are more than his or him - they may be considered, as Gauguin put it, the flower.





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