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.
Palazzo Vecchio: a history of art and power. Directed by Piero Messina, through a clever movement of...
Kingdom of Granada, al-Andalus, 14th century. After recognizing that his land, always under siege, i...
The inner world of the great painter Max Ernst is the subject of this film. One of the principal fou...
To be in Venice and see the architecture of New York, to perceive in a painting by Tintoretto the bi...
We go behind the scenes and into the minds of artists as they capture, commemorate, and, at times, ...
For more than a decade, Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering, Adolf Hitler's right-hand man during the in...
Katherine Watson is a recent UCLA graduate hired to teach art history at the prestigious all-female ...
A short film by Peter Greenaway. It depicts the painting The Wedding Feast at Cana by Paolo Veronese...
The multi-talented outsider artist Richard McMahan is on a quest to painstakingly re-create thousand...
A daughter is constantly overshadowed by her famous father, but she is determined to make her own ma...
In November 15, 2017, the painting Salvator Mundi, attributed to Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci (1...
The history of the Teatro Amazonas in Manaus, an opera house located in the middle of the Amazon rai...
An account of the life and work of Swiss painter, sculptor, architect and designer H. R. Giger (1940...
For three and a half centuries, from the same day that Diego Velázquez (1599-1660) applied his last ...
In 2009, art detective Dr Bendor Grosvenor caused a national scandal by proving that the Scottish Na...
A film that looks at the genius of JMW Turner in a new light. There is more to Turner than his subli...
Black Is the Color highlights key moments in the history of Black visual art, from Edmonds Lewis’s 1...
M.C. Escher is among the most intriguing of artists. In 1956 he challenged the laws of perspective w...
A portrait of Spanish comic book author Paco Plaza.