Disc 1. Lecture 1. Greatness in painting --

Lecture 2. The Majesty of Duccio and Giotto --

Lecture 3. Acts of faith: Masaccio, Van Eyck, Van der Weyden --

Lecture 4. The Diversity of Piero, Mantegna, Botticelli --

Lecture 5. The Devotion of Bellini, Geertgen, Dürer --

Lecture 6. Masterworks by Leonardo, Raphael, Correggio.

Disc 2. Lecture 7. Great ensembles: Michelangelo and Grünewald --

Lecture 8. Ideal and real: Giorgione, Titian, Holbein --

Lecture 9. Living and dying: Bruegel, El Greco, Caravaggio --

Lecture 10. Life stories by Ter Brugghen, Rubens, Steen --

Lecture 11. Inside Vermeer, Velázquez, Rembrandt --

Lecture 12. Spirit and thought: Hals, Rembrandt, La Tour.

Disc 3. Lecture 13. The Serenity of Poussin, Claude, Watteau --

Lecture 14. In contrast: Chardin, Tiepolo, Gainsborough --

Lecture 15. Dark images of David, Goya, Friedrich --

Lecture 16. The Worlds of Constable, Turner, Delacroix --

Lecture 17. Dark to bright: Courbet, Church, Monet --

Lecture 18. Alone and together: Whistler, Degas, Renoir.

Disc 4. Lecture 19. Unlike any other: Sargent, Manet, Seurat --

Lecture 20. Close observation: Cézanne, Van Gogh, Homer --

Lecture 21. The Human condition: Munch, Matisse, Schiele --

Lecture 22. Art in time of war: Monet and Picasso --

Lecture 23. Time and memory: Magritte, Hopper, Gorky --

Lecture 24. Expressive abstractions: Pollock and Hofmann.