The Mona Lisa by the Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci is the most famous painting in the world. What is the secret behind the "real" Mona Lisa? It draws legions of visitors to the Louvre in Paris to contemplate her enigmatic expression. In this "detective story," historians tell us how Leonardo developed the painting and uncover the long-hidden identity of the smiling woman.

The inner world of the great painter Max Ernst is the subject of this film. One of the principal fou...

People looking at the Mona Lisa in the Louvre – or are they just looking at themselves?

The Victorian era is often cited for its lack of sexuality, but as this documentary reveals, the per...

In 1940, the German artist Charlotte Salomon (1917-43) undertook an extraordinary artistic adventure...

X-ray images were invented in 1895, the same year in which the Lumière brothers presented their resp...

Katherine Watson is a recent UCLA graduate hired to teach art history at the prestigious all-female ...

A film that looks at the genius of JMW Turner in a new light. There is more to Turner than his subli...

M.C. Escher is among the most intriguing of artists. In 1956 he challenged the laws of perspective w...

Olev Subbi (1930–2013) was one of the most significant painters of the second half of the 20th centu...

In 2009, art detective Dr Bendor Grosvenor caused a national scandal by proving that the Scottish Na...

Every fall, The Center for Cartoon Studies invites 20 aspiring cartoonists to White River Junction, ...

An account of the life and work of the multidisciplinary Spanish artist Mariano Fortuny Madrazo (187...

After the untimely death of his 35-year old brother, an artist explores the questions that surfaced ...

An account of the short life and the astonishing and provocative work of the Austrian painter Egon S...

A short documentary about the life work and philosophy of William Blake featuring an interview with ...

We immerse ourselves in a quest for the origins of Art, among the very first modern humans. The preh...