- Network: PBS
- Series Premiere Date: Jul 8, 2025
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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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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.