Renaissance - The Blood and the Beauty

BBC Two Wales HD

3:05 AM to 4:05 AM

Tuesday 24 December

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As Michelangelo sets to work on the Sistine Chapel, his rival Raphael starts his commission to transform the pope's private apartments just a few hundred metres away, with each man determined to outdo the other and win the favour of the pontiff. Meanwhile, a violent religious schism engulfs Europe and makes Michelangelo question everything