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.

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

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...

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...

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

The Victorian era is often cited for its lack of sexuality, but as this documentary reveals, the per...

Inside the secret world of Sergei Pugachev, a Russian oligarch, and his British partner Countess Ale...

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

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

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

For months, the FBI have been investigating Russian interference in the American presidential electi...

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

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

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

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

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