Andrew Graham-Dixon’s third Art of… series begins next week on BBC4. First there was Art of Eternity in 2007, on early Christian art; earlier this year there was Art of Spain; and, weekly from Wednesday, is a four-part Art of Italy. In three of these programmes the Sunday Telegraph art critic and veteran telly art expert – “You have to realise I’m a very, very old man in a trendy young presenter’s body. I’ve been doing this for about 20 years…” says Graham-Dixon, 48 – examines aspects of the Renaissance art world. In the fourth, the filmmaker Tim Kirby looks at the architect Andrea Palladio.

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