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.

Turkey's history has been shaped by two major political figures: Mustafa Kemal (1881-1934), known as...

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

Kingdom of Granada, al-Andalus, 14th century. After recognizing that his land, always under siege, i...

On the occasion of the fourty years anniversary of François Mitterand's election, a look back to the...

The multi-talented outsider artist Richard McMahan is on a quest to painstakingly re-create thousand...

An account of the short life and the astonishing and provocative work of the Austrian painter Egon S...

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

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...

Death and the devil, nudity and eroticism, horror in blazing colours, Gothic art cast a spell over p...

For months, the FBI have been investigating Russian interference in the American presidential electi...
Octavio Ocampo is the creator of the metamorphic style painting technique, a technique of overlappin...

At the turn of the sixteenth century, Michelangelo (Mark Frankel), Raphael (Andrea Prodan), and Leon...

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

The female breast has been a motif for as long as there has been art. For centuries, people have bee...

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

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

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

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

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