The Private Life of a Masterpiece S06E02 · Salvador Dalí: Christ of Saint John of the Cross

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This extraordinary crucifixion scene - inspired by a weird mix of Spanish mysticism and nuclear physics - is often called the 20th century's greatest religious painting. Yet the artist was a notorious blasphemer whose work had provoked outrage in the Catholic Church.

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