Understanding Art: Hidden Lives of Works of Art

Understanding Art: Hidden Lives of Works of Art Season 1

TV Show

Season 1 Episodes

1. Raphael

January 1st, 2011

The Louvre possesses some of the most important works painted by Raphael at the end of his career, including the Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione. Experts scrutinize and debate that masterpiece, the inscrutable Self-Portrait with a Friend, and Saint Michael Vanquishing Satan, which has barely survived five centuries of botched restorations.