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.

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

M.C. Escher is among the most intriguing of artists. In 1956 he challenged the laws of perspective w...
A survey of the painting of Henri Matisse, revealing the development of the idyllic quality in his w...

The Mona Lisa, also known as La Gioconda, is a work by Leonardo Da Vinci and one of the most famous ...

Throughout the 19th century, imaginative and visionary artists and inventors brought about the adven...

Fajar Suharno was a theater maestro from the 80's to the 90's. He was imprisoned because his theater...

A documentary celebrating Lee Miller, a model-turned-photographer-turned-war reporter who defied any...

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

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

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