Seeing Salvation (2000)
Synopsis
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.
First Air Date: 2000-04-02
Last Air Date: 2000-04-23
Number of Seasons: 1
Number of Episodes: 4
Networks: BBC Two
Top Cast
- Neil MacGregor as Self - Presenter
Seasons
Specials (1999)
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Episodes:
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Ep. 1: The Coming of the Kings
As a taster to a series for the new year, this four-part study looks at how images of Christ reflect human concerns.
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Ep. 2: A Child Born to Die
Neil MacGregor considers how pieces of nativity art such as Bruegel's Adoration of the Kings can be seen to foreshadow Christ's fate.
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