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Simon Schama's Power of Art

Episode 2: Bernini

Duration: 57 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two EnglandLatest broadcast: on BBC Four

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Documentary series in which historian Simon Schama recounts the story of eight moments of high drama in the making of eight masterpieces. He looks at how Gian Lorenzo Bernini's Ecstasy of St Thereza shows a nun in the state of orgasmic bliss and wonders how it was ever allowed. Show less

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