Leonardo da Vinci is not just the most famous and most admired of all painters - he is an icon, a superstar. Yet, the man himself remains elusive. Accounts during his lifetime describe a man too handsome, too strong, too perfect to be accurate. But in 2009, the chance discovery in the South of Italy of an ancient portrait with strangely familiar features takes the art world by storm. Could this be an unknown self-portrait by Leonardo da Vinci? Controversy erupts among the experts. The implications of such a discovery have far-reaching consequences for our understanding of the work of this great Renaissance master.

Presents life in 18th century Spain as the painter Francisco de Goya showed it to us.

Artist Grayson Perry has been working behind the scenes at the British Museum to stage his most ambi...

It's a condition known as "hypertrichosis" or "Ambras Syndrome," but in the 1500s it would transform...

In the early nineties, Dr. Jacobo Grinberg’s career was blooming and he gained lots of international...

Vincent Castiglia paints in human blood.

About the art explosion in Amsterdam during the 1980's when artists of all sorts found spaces and pl...
Documentary film about Gothic painting and its representatives.

Painter Françoise Gilot shared Pablo Picasso's life from 1943 to 1953. This union nourished their re...

An extravagant, exotic and moving look at Rembrandt's romantic and professional life, and the contro...

Cinema and painting establish a fluid dialogue and begins with introspection in the themes and forms...

This ninety-minute film takes audiences on an epic journey across nine countries and over 1,400 year...

Artist David Choe has led a life of high risk, from hedonistic excesses to being imprisoned at a max...

In August of 1949, Life Magazine ran a banner headline that begged the question: "Jackson Pollock: I...

Herzog and cinematographer Peter Zeitlinger go to Antarctica to meet people who live and work there,...

Pictura is a documentary film directed by seven famous directors, and narrated by several famous Hol...

Gauguin’s vivid artworks sell for millions. He was an inspired and committed multi-media artist who ...

In the mid-1960s, wealthy debutant Edie Sedgwick meets artist Andy Warhol. She joins Warhol's famous...

When two of artist Barbora Kysilkova’s most valuable paintings are stolen from a gallery at Frogner ...