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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A film that looks at the genius of JMW Turner in a new light. There is more to Turner than his subli...

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

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

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

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

Based on the latest technological and scientific advances, this documentary explores the palace's ar...

For the whole of his long life Emil Nolde, the leading German Expressionist, luxuriated in colour. B...

The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky claimed, or has been credited with, the 'creation' of abstract...

Documentary in which art critic Waldemar Januszczak argues that beauty is still to be found in moder...

Documentary about the history of 20th century globalization through the lens of the World Trade Orga...

"This installation or performance work puts my own earlier film of the Mona Lisa (1973) through anot...

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