Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty
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| PBS | Release Date: July 8, 2025 |
Summary:
The three-part series about the rivalry between Michelangelo (Charles Dance), Leonardo da Vinci (Jonny Glynn), and Raphael (Joshua Duffy) is narrated by Sophie Okonedo.
[Premiered originally in the UK on BBC Two on 2 Dec 2024 and in the US on PBS on 8 Jul 2025]
[Premiered originally in the UK on BBC Two on 2 Dec 2024 and in the US on PBS on 8 Jul 2025]
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Drama, Movie/Mini-Series, Documentary, Arts
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The Guardian
Jun 10, 2025
The Times
Jun 10, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Charles Dance, with white Catweazle hair, made a bewitching elderly Michelangelo in Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty (BBC2), addressing his monologues to camera with wild blue eyes. The non-speaking actor bits, though, added little to the party. .... The second episode focuses more directly on the art, with excellent talking heads, from Antony Gormley to David LaChappelle.
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Jul 3, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Less amusing is the sense that the makers of “Renaissance” seem to think they’re revealing all this history to a viewership emerging from its own Dark Ages. But even Renaissance scholars will be entertained by this PBS-by-way-of-BBC presentation. .... “Renaissance” is really the Michelangelo story, with the usually marvelous Charles Dance appearing intermittently.
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Air Date: July 8, 2025
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