Poster for Rick Steves' Art of Europe

PBS 2022 - 2023 2 seasons 12 eps Returning series

Rick Steves' Art of Europe

2022 - 2023 2 seasons 12 eps

7.7

Season 2

No results found

Specials

Season 1

Season 2

55 min

S2 · E1 Oct 2, 2023

Rick Steves Art: Prehistoric and Ancient Episode 1

Rick Steves' Europe © 2023 | As the Ice Age glaciers melted, European civilization was born — and with it, so was art. From the Stone Age came prehistoric art: mysterious tombs, mighty megaliths, and vivid cave paintings. Then the Egyptians and the Greeks laid the foundations of Western art — creating a world of magical gods, massive pyramids, sun-splashed temples, and ever-more-lifelike statues.

55 min

S2 · E2 Oct 2, 2023

Rick Steves Art of Ancient Rome Episode 2

Rick Steves' Europe © 2023 | The Romans gave Europe its first taste of a common culture—and awe-inspiring art. From its groundbreaking architecture to its statues, mosaics, and frescos, Rome engineered bigger and better than anyone before. At its peak, the Roman Empire was a society of unprecedented luxury, with colossal arenas for entertaining the masses and giant monuments to egotistical emperors. And then it fell. 

55 min

S2 · E3 Oct 2, 2023

Rick Steves Art of the Middle Ages Episode 3

Rick Steves' Europe © 2023 | After Rome fell, Europe spent a thousand years in its Middle Ages. Its art shows how the light of civilization flickered in monasteries and on Europe’s fringes: Christian Byzantium, Moorish Spain, and pagan Vikings. Then, around A.D. 1000, Europe rebounded. The High Middle Ages brought majestic castles, radiant Gothic cathedrals, and exquisite art that dazzled the faithful and the secular alike.

55 min

S2 · E4 Oct 2, 2023

Rick Steves Art of the Renaissance Episode 4

Rick Steves' Europe © 2023 | Around 1400, Europe rediscovered the aesthetics of ancient Greece and Rome. This rebirth of classical culture showed itself in the statues, paintings, and architecture of Florence, then spread to Spain, Holland, Germany, and beyond. The Renaissance—from art-loving popes to Leonardo’s Mona Lisa and Michelangelo’s David—celebrated humanism and revolutionized how we think about our world.

55 min

S2 · E5 Oct 2, 2023

Rick Steves Art of the Baroque Age Episode 5

Rick Steves' Europe © 2023 | In the 1600s and 1700s, the art of "divine" kings and popes—and of revolutionaries and Reformers—tells the story of a Europe in transition. In the Catholic south, Baroque bubbled over with fanciful decoration and exuberant emotion. In the Protestant north, art was more sober and austere. And in France, the excesses of godlike kings gave way to revolution, Napoleon, and cerebral Neoclassicism.

55 min

S2 · E6 Oct 2, 2023

Rick Steves Art of the Modern Age Episode 6

Rick Steves' Europe © 2023 | In the 1800s, the Industrial Revolution spawned new artistic styles: idealized Romanticism, light-chasing Impressionism, sensuous Art Nouveau. Then Europe’s tumultuous 20th century inspired rule-breaking art as exciting as the times: from Expressionism and Cubism to Surrealism to Abstract. The genius of artists like Van Gogh, Picasso, and Dalí express the complexity of our modern world.

6 episodes in Season 2

Some details come from TheTVDB.

Rick Steves' Art of Europe weaves Europe’s greatest masterpieces into an entertaining and inspiring story. From prehistoric cave paintings to the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Greece, and Rome; through a thousand years of Middle Ages to the Renaissance; and from extravagant Baroque to the tumultuous 20th century, we’ll see how Europe’s art both connects us to the past and points the way forward.

Documentary

Where to watch

Not streaming anywhere

Not on any streaming service in United States, and not available to rent.

Your rating

Your review

Cast

1 person

Rick Steves

Himself

Also in

The Simpsons

American Dad!

Rick Steves Creator

Creator

Rick Steves

Total runtime 11h 0m · Episode length 55 min · Type Documentary

Show info

Premiered

October 1, 2022

Final episode

October 2, 2023

Status

Returning series

Network

PBS

Country

United States

Type

Documentary

Episode length

55 min

Total runtime

11h 0m

Original language

English

Production

United States

Produced in

Languages

Spoken on screen

English

If you liked Rick Steves' Art of Europe

Picks that share its genres, themes, cast and crew.

Rick Steves' Europe

TV · 2000

American Masters

TV · 1986

History 101

TV · 2020

The Reluctant Traveller with Eugene Levy

TV · 2023

JANET JACKSON.

TV · 2022

Trust Me: The False Prophet

TV · 2026

Some details come from TheTVDB.

You're offline

Recently viewed pages still work. Your changes save locally and sync when you're back.

Back online · syncing