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...

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

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?

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...

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

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

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

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

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

An account of the life and work of Swiss painter, sculptor, architect and designer H. R. Giger (1940...
A survey of the painting of Henri Matisse, revealing the development of the idyllic quality in his w...

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

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

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

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