Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty

"What a fantastic and refreshing view of the three artists who had the greatest effect on the art world of Italy! Split into three wonderful episodes, Charles Dance narrates as an older and wiser Michelangelo, who looks back on his life with Raphael, and Leonard da Vinci as his rivals. These three are the subjects of this incredibly well researched and entertaining documentary about their lives as artists. Their commissions, their rivals, and their legacies. Papal influences, the Medici, the Borgia, the war with France, and so many historical events were the backdrop of these essential artists careers. I was mesmerized at learning so much more about them. "