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.

A daughter is constantly overshadowed by her famous father, but she is determined to make her own ma...

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

This film explains what James Ensor (1860-1949) meant for the development of art and makes palpable ...

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

For three and a half centuries, from the same day that Diego Velázquez (1599-1660) applied his last ...

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

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

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

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

An account of the life and work of Swiss painter, sculptor, architect and designer H. R. Giger (1940...

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

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

Already a successful portrait photographer, Hannah sets to reinvent this art form. Abandoning hersel...

The representation of genitalia in the fine arts was censored for centuries: sexual organs were disc...