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Provides a panorama of 2000 years of architecture, painting and sculpture, and studies the art masterpieces as reflections of the Western culture that produced them.

As society revolted against decadence and corruption, artists turned again to classical Greece. The romantic painters in turn elevated individual expression. Featured: Watteau, Syon House, David's The Death of Marat, Ingres, Delacroix, The Third of May.

Napoleon's charisma and promise, and the changes he wrought, had an enormous impact on French artistic life. This episode includes the French Revolution and its aftermath, and Napoleon's rise and fall from power.