Rise
Michelangelo and Leonardo struggle to win work in the brutal world of Renaissance Italy, as they navigate a deadly world of powerful patrons, violent warfare and artistic rivalry.
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Pietà
S2025 E1 - 3m 20s
Michelangelo carves his Pietà – a remarkable image of the Madonna holding her dead son. He is determined to “make something of such great and rare beauty that no one who saw it would not be moved to pity.”
Leonardo in Milan
S2025 E1 - 2m 35s
Failing to secure commissions in Florence, Leonardo travels to Milan where he is determined to make his name at the court of the Duke of Sforza. He turns his hand to designing of weapons of war… but is also given the freedom to indulge his creativity and thirst for knowledge.
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