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　　The new series on Renaissance ainting, written and resented by Matthew Collings, begins with an artistic investigation into one of the most radiant and beautiful images in all of art history, The Madonna of the Meadow, ainted in 1505 by Rahael.　　Renaissance art has become art of the 21st-century heritage industry but when Rahael was alive, it was a startling new form of visual exression, and Rahael#39;s viant #39;realism#39; was striking and fresh. It became the model for western art for the next 400 years, right u until the birth of Modernism.　　As much as it was a cultural #39;rebirth#39;, the Renaissance was also a revolution in ideas about reality. Matthew Collings sets out to remind us of how radical Renaissance aintings were when they were made, as well as oening our eyes to what is still truly great about them. In this rogramme he deconstructs The Madonna of the Meadow with the hel of the very latest high-resolution digital technology, which allows him to exlore the inner secrets of Rahael#39;s ainterly effects with a clarity and at a level of detail never before seen on television.　　As Matthew says, it is a journey #39;to the other side of an illusion#39;, revealing how Rahael created the alluring images that were so aealing to his wealthy Renaissance clients - including the Poe - and which entranced artists for centuries after his death. Matthew exlains the secret to Rahael#39;s viant colour harmonies, which the artist grased intuitively, long before the advent of colour #39;theory#39;; and Rahael also knew how to exloit colour effects to create the imression of extraordinary deth in his aintings.