Renacimiento: arte y violencia

The renaissance produced remarkable art at a time of political and religous turmoil; as a subject for a documentary, it might be thought to offer a target impossible to miss. But this series only strikes a glancing blow, with clumsy reconstructions alternating with talking heads who seem universally keener to play amateur psychologist than to demonstrate their actual expertise. There's so much that could be shown, but the programme prefers to tell, and to tell us about things that can't be known for certain but which our own imaginations might guess at anyway. The focus is on Michelangelo in particular, and I did learn something about him and his work, but there's a high ratio of filler to fact.