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.

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

A documentary that traces the origins of the political power structure that rules our nation and the...

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

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

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

The female breast has been a motif for as long as there has been art. For centuries, people have bee...
Octavio Ocampo is the creator of the metamorphic style painting technique, a technique of overlappin...

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

Palazzo Vecchio: a history of art and power. Directed by Piero Messina, through a clever movement of...

Working closely with the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, Sunflowers goes beyond a ‘virtual exhibition’...

This documentary features a kinetic artist who creates vibrant mixed media works that push the bound...