Part 1. Disc 1. (lectures 1-6) The story of the National Gallery, London ; Late medieval painting ; Early Renaissance Italian painting ; Netherlandish portraits and devotional images ; Florence : Center of 15th-century Italian art ; 15th-century Venetian art --
Disc 2. (lectures 7-12) The high Renaissance in central Italy ; Titian and his Venetian contemporaries ; Venetian masters : Tintoretto and Veronese ; Painting for the courts, c. 1515-1575 ; Northern European masters : Bosch to Bruegel ; The innovation of Carracci and Caravaggio --
Part 2. Disc 3. (lectures 13-18) The rise of French art : Poussin and Claude ; Flemish masters : Rubens and Van Dyck ; A golden age of Spanish painting ; Dutch history, portraiture, genre scenes ; Dutch still lifes, townscapes, landscapes ; The genius of Rembrandt --
Disc 4. (lectures 19-24) Venetian and Spanish masters, c. 1740-1820 ; The charms of 18th-century French painting ; British painting comes of age ; British and French masters, c. 1785-1860 ; Impressionism in France ; Post-impressionism.
