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.

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

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

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

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

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, ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A portrait of the visionary Dutch artist M. C. Escher (1898-1972), according to his own words, taken...

A movie about James Tissot (1836-1902), a French painter and portraitist