BBC to bring the treasures of the Royal Collection to audiences across the UK

The BBC announced the first programmes to feature in its Royal Collection Season at Buckingham Palace. 

Created in partnership with the Royal Collection Trust, the Royal Collection Season will reveal the fascinating history of one of the largest and most important art collections in the world, bringing the masterpieces of the Royal Collection, and the stories behind them, to audiences across Britain.

Jonty Claypole, Director, BBC Arts says: “The BBC is delighted to be working in partnership with Royal Collection Trust. The programmes we’re announcing today are The Royal Collection, a four-part series presented by Andrew Graham-Dixon for BBC Four, and Treasures Reunited: Charles I At The Royal Academy for BBC Two. These programmes will give audiences across the UK a chance to discover the extraordinary history and masterpieces of the Royal Collection, as well as some of its lesser-known, but equally extraordinary treasures. Broadcast will coincide with the major exhibitions, Charles II: Art & Power at The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, and Charles I: King and Collector at the Royal Academy.”

Presented by Andrew Graham-Dixon, The Royal Collection will be broadcast on BBC Four in 2018. Further BBC programming in the Royal Collection Season will be announced later in 2017.

The Royal Collection (w/t) - 4 x 60 - BBC Four

The Royal Collection is one of the most important and largest art collections in the world. Containing over a million works, it not only covers all aspects of the fine and decorative arts, but is also a personal record of the tastes and passions of kings and queens over the last five hundred years. Forty years since the story of the Royal Collection was last told so extensively on television, the BBC and Royal Collection Trust are working together in a major partnership to bring the many treasures of the Collection to television.

In a four-part series for BBC Four, made by BBC Studios, Andrew Graham-Dixon selects some of the most spectacular works of art from this vast collection as he visits royal residences, museums and galleries across the UK. This is a collection that includes world-famous masterpieces by Van Dyck, Rembrandt, Canaletto and unrivalled collections of exquisite drawings by Holbein and Leonardo da Vinci. From grand sculpture and some of the most remarkable furniture ever made to Tudor miniatures and the extravagant creations of Fabergé, Andrew Graham-Dixon will explain what the objects meant to the artists who created them and to the royal collectors who acquired them.

For centuries, the Royal Collection has helped the monarchy to perform its duty while also projecting its tastes, priorities and concerns. A record of British kings and queens at their most public, Andrew shows how it also reveals them at their most human.

Treasures Reunited: Charles I At The Royal Academy - 1 x 60 - BBC Two

This special programme for BBC Two, made by BBC Studios, will see presenter Brenda Emmanus explore the Royal Academy’s landmark exhibition - created in partnership with Royal Collection Trust - Charles I: King and Collector.

For the first time since the seventeenth century, and to mark the 250th anniversary of the Royal Academy in 2018, much of Charles’ I’s extraordinary art collection will be reassembled and displayed at the Royal Academy in London. The exhibition will include more than 90 works of art from the Royal Collection.

With the help of art historians, as well as those who have worked with galleries and museums across the world to bring this extraordinary collection back together, Brenda will unpack the stories behind the works in the collection - from artists such as Dürer, Rubens, Titian and Holbein. She will tell the incredible story of how it was amassed by Charles I and then dismantled by Oliver Cromwell and trace the King’s motivation in creating such an outstanding art collection.

May 23, 2017 1:49pm ET by BBC TWO   Comments (0)

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