What makes a work of art a masterpiece? Discover the answers in
the fascinating stories of how these artworks came to be and the
circumstances of their long-lasting impact on the world.
Beginning with Botticelli's The Birth of Venus, we travel through
time and a range of styles and stories - including theft,
scandal, artistic reputation, politics and power - to Warhol's
Campbell's Soup Cans, challenging the idea of what a masterpiece
can be, and arriving in the twenty-first century with Amy
Sherald's portrait of Michelle Obama, a modern-day masterpiece
still to be tested by time.