SIMON SCHAMA'S POWER OF ART takes viewers on a sweeping cinematic journey to the turning points in the lives of eight artists and a work that defined the career of each. Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) and Wheatfield with Crows, Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) and Guernica, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) and David with the Head of Goliath, Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) and The Ecstasy of St. Theresa, Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) and The Conspiracy of the Batavians under Claudius Civilis, Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825) and The Death of Marat,  J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851) and Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On), and Mark Rothko (1903-1970) and the Seagram murals.