The world's greatest paintings

Disc 1. Lecture 1. Greatness in painting

Lecture 2. The Majesty of Duccio and Giotto

Lecture 3. Acts of faith: Masaccio, Van Eyck, Van der Weyden

Lecture 4. The Diversity of Piero, Mantegna, Botticelli

Lecture 5. The Devotion of Bellini, Geertgen, Dürer

Lecture 6. Masterworks by Leonardo, Raphael, Correggio.

Disc 2. Lecture 7. Great ensembles: Michelangelo and Grünewald

Lecture 8. Ideal and real: Giorgione, Titian, Holbein

Lecture 9. Living and dying: Bruegel, El Greco, Caravaggio

Lecture 10. Life stories by Ter Brugghen, Rubens, Steen

Lecture 11. Inside Vermeer, Velázquez, Rembrandt

Lecture 12. Spirit and thought: Hals, Rembrandt, La Tour.

Disc 3. Lecture 13. The Serenity of Poussin, Claude, Watteau

Lecture 14. In contrast: Chardin, Tiepolo, Gainsborough

Lecture 15. Dark images of David, Goya, Friedrich

Lecture 16. The Worlds of Constable, Turner, Delacroix

Lecture 17. Dark to bright: Courbet, Church, Monet

Lecture 18. Alone and together: Whistler, Degas, Renoir.

Disc 4. Lecture 19. Unlike any other: Sargent, Manet, Seurat

Lecture 20. Close observation: Cézanne, Van Gogh, Homer

Lecture 21. The Human condition: Munch, Matisse, Schiele

Lecture 22. Art in time of war: Monet and Picasso

Lecture 23. Time and memory: Magritte, Hopper, Gorky

Lecture 24. Expressive abstractions: Pollock and Hofmann.