Traces the creation of new styles and roles for art through the lives and work of various masters including Donatello, Brunelleschi, Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian and Caravaggio.

Presents the life and works of the great artists of the Italian Renaissance.

In the 1920s, African-American literature, art, music, dance, and social commentary flourished in Harlem, in uptown New York City. This cultural movement, which redefined African-American expression, became known as the Harlem Renaissance. Music became the centerpiece that this movement was built around, launching an artistic awakening rather than a social revolt. Featuring commentary from historians and the performers themselves, this program traces...

Guided by experts, art historians, and Florentine citizens, Bill Moyers tours Florence's rich Renaissance legacy, exploring the roots of the common artistic, architectural, and human heritage of modern Western civilization.

The Renaissance created itself as culture, literature, architecture and the visual arts all reflected a trend to glorify man, not necessarily God.

Uncover some of the greatest mysteries of our time in this stunning look at the works of the legendary Leonardo Da Vinci. Are there hidden messages within these masterpieces that shed new light on some religious beliefs?

A portrait emerges of the artist as a man with an insatiable thirst for knowledge and a drive for perfection that leaves much of his work uncompleted.

Chronicles the rise to power of a Catalan cardinal and his clan, who seek to establish a dynasty that would sway over the entire world and win him the ultimate prize, the Chair of Saint Peter.

Jeremy Irons stars in The Borgias, the saga of history's most infamous crime family. Conspiring with his ruthless sons and poisonously seductive daughter, the charismatic Rodrigo Borgia will let nothing and no one stand in the way of his relentless quest for wealth and power. Mercilessly cruel and defiantly decadent, intimidation and murder are his weapons of choice in his scandalous ascension to the papacy in Renaissance-era Italy.