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Mystery of the Lost Paintings

2018

Last aired: S1 E8, The Adoration · 2018-06-20

This documentary series tells the stories of a host of historic paintings that have been tragically lost, stolen or destroyed over the decades and centuries.

Cast

James Cosmo Narrator

Season 1

E1 Mystery of the Lost Churchill 2018-05-02 · 60 min This series kicks off with Graham Sutherland's controversial portrait of Winston Churchill.

E2 Mystery of the Lost Monet 2018-05-09 · 60 min Art experts attempt to digitally reconstruct Monet's Water Lilies, a much beloved painting that was destroyed in a fire at New York's Museum of Modern Art in 1958.

E3 Mystery of the Lost Van Gogh 2018-05-16 · 60 min A pioneering team of art experts attempt to recreate van Gogh's 1888 painting Six Sunflowers, which was destroyed in Japan during World War II.

E4 Mystery of the Lost Vermeer 2018-05-23 · 60 min A team of ingenious art experts recreate The Concert by Johannes Vermeer, which was stolen from a Boston museum in 1990 in the biggest art heist of modern times.

E5 Mystery of the Lost Lempicka 2018-05-30 · 60 min Follow the ingenious recreation of Tamara de Lempicka's Myrto, the priceless painting that was stolen during the Nazi occupation of France during World War II.

E6 Mystery of the Lost Klimt 2018-06-06 · 60 min A team of art experts attempt to recreate Medicine, a painting by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt, which was destroyed in 1945 by the retreating German army.

E7 The Tower of Blue Horses 2018-06-13 · 60 min Art experts attempt to make a perfect replica of Franz Marc's expressionist work The Tower of Blue Horses, which disappeared following the collapse of Nazi Germany.

E8 The Adoration 2018-06-20 · 60 min Art experts attempt to recreate Caravaggio's 17th century masterpiece The Adoration, which was stolen from the Oratory of San Lorenzo in Palermo, Italy, on 18 October 1969.

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