In November 15, 2017, the painting Salvator Mundi, attributed to Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), was sold for an unprecedented $450 million. An examination of the dirty secrets of the art world and the surprising story of how a work of art is capable of upsetting both personal and geopolitical interests.

After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the e...

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?

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

Departing from peripheral details of some paintings of the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, a female narrato...

Black Is the Color highlights key moments in the history of Black visual art, from Edmonds Lewis’s 1...

A courageous pastor uses his underground network to rescue and aid North Korean families as they ris...

Master filmmaker Alexander Sokurov (Russian Ark) transforms a portrait of the world-renowned museum ...

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

The insatiably curious and headstrong inventor Leonardo da Vinci leaves Italy to join the French cou...

Already a successful portrait photographer, Hannah sets to reinvent this art form. Abandoning hersel...
Released from prison, former oil oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky expounds on his newfound freedom and ...

A documentary on how British double-dealing during the First World War ignited the conflict between ...

Leonardo da Vinci finds it difficult to pursue his own dreams while serving as the Duke's court arti...

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

Christian, Ben and Jean-Marie are fighting for political change of power and free elections in their...

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

During the Italian Renaissance, Pope Julius II contracts the influential artist Michelangelo to scul...