由马修·科林斯（Matthew Collings）撰写和介绍的关于文艺复兴时期绘画的新系列，首先是对艺术史上最辐射，最美丽的图像之一《麦当娜的草地》的艺术研究，该绘画由拉斐尔于1505年绘制。
文艺复兴时期的艺术已成为21世纪遗产产业的一部分，但是当拉斐尔（Raphael）活着时，它是一种令人震惊的视觉表现形式，拉斐尔（Raphael）充满活力的“写实主义”令人震惊和新鲜。直到现代主义的诞生，它在接下来的400年中成为西方艺术的典范。
尽管这是文化上的“重生”，但文艺复兴也是关于现实的观念上的一场革命。马修·科林斯（Matthew Collings）着手提醒我们，文艺复兴时期的绘画创作时是多么激进，同时也让我们大开眼界。在此程序中，他借助最新的高分辨率数字技术解构了《草地上的麦当娜》，这使他可以清晰，细致地探索拉斐尔绘画效果的内在秘密，而这些细节在电视上是从未见过的。
正如马修（Matthew）所说，这是“通往幻觉的另一面”的旅程，揭示了拉斐尔（Raphael）如何创造出诱人的图像，这些图像对他的富裕的文艺复兴时期的客户-包括教皇-极具吸引力，并且在他去世后几个世纪都吸引了艺术家。马修（Matthew）解释了拉斐尔（Raphael）充满活力的色彩和谐的秘密，在色彩“理论”出现之前很久，画家就直观地领会了这一秘密。拉斐尔（Raphael）也知道如何利用色彩效果在他的画中创造非凡的深度印象。
The new series on Renaissance painting, written and presented 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, painted in 1505 by Raphael.
Renaissance art has become part of the 21st-century heritage industry but when Raphael was alive, it was a startling new form of visual expression, and Raphael's vibrant 'realism' was striking and fresh. It became the model for western art for the next 400 years, right up until the birth of Modernism.As much as it was a cultural 'rebirth', the Renaissance was also a revolution in ideas about reality. Matthew Collings sets out to remind us of how radical Renaissance paintings were when they were made, as well as opening our eyes to what is still truly great about them. In this programme he deconstructs The Madonna of the Meadow with the help of the very latest high-resolution digital technology, which allows him to explore the inner secrets of Raphael's painterly effects with a clarity and at a level of detail never before seen on television.
As Matthew says, it is a journey 'to the other side of an illusion', revealing how Raphael created the alluring images that were so appealing to his wealthy Renaissance clients - including the Pope - and which entranced artists for centuries after his death. Matthew explains the secret to Raphael's vibrant colour harmonies, which the artist grasped intuitively, long before the advent of colour 'theory'; and Raphael also knew how to exploit colour effects to create the impression of extraordinary depth in his paintings.
