Season 1, Episode 6

Why are celebrities grabbing their paint brushes during the Great Lockdown, and what exactly is the elusive art movement they call Mannerism? Plus Waldy’s self-portrait as Philip Guston.

MANNERISM

Vertumnus the god of seasons (c. 1590-1591) by Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527-1593)

Gardens of Bomarzo (16th century)

Venus, Cupid Folly and Time (1540-1546) by Agnolo Bronzino (1503-1572)

The Madonna with the Long Neck (c. 1535-1540) by Parmigianino (1503-1540)

Visitation (1528) by Pontormo (1494-1557)

The Deposition from the Cross (1528) by Pontormo

Temptations of St Jerome (1541) by Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574)

Pallas Athene (1539) by Parmigianino

Noli me tangere (1561) by Agnolo Brozino

ISOLATION

Celebrities painting in lockdown

Pierce Brosnan

Sylvester Stallone

Sharon Stone

Reese Witherspoon

Anthony Hopkins

ON THE WALL

Sabine (2000) by Alison Watt (1965-)

Painting, Smoking, Eating (1973) by Philip Guston (1913-1980)