Art History Movies

This film follows the life of Jacob Kainen, a prolific but often overlooked artist of 20th Century America. From his immigrant upbringing to his...

Mircea Eliade was a traditionalist Romanian novelist and philosopher. Following the disaster of the Second World War, he moved to Paris and Chicago,...

Raphael: The Young Prodigy tells the story of the artist from Urbino, beginning with his extraordinary early portraits of women - the Mother, the...

There is an interlinking history of violent European colonialism and the cultural legacy of ethnographic collections in institutions. This...

Simon Schama explains the style, theme and concept of Rembrandt's late masterpieces.

French writer Jean-Claude Carrière traces the life and work of Spanish painter Francisco de Goya (1746-1828).

Olev Subbi (1930–2013) was one of the most significant painters of the second half of the 20th century. His art constantly strived for harmony...

We go behind the scenes and into the minds of artists as they capture, commemorate, and, at times, condemn our presidents.

X-ray images were invented in 1895, the same year in which the Lumière brothers presented their respective invention in what today is...

Bordeaux, France, 1828. Spanish painter Francisco de Goya y Lucientes dies in his French exile on April 16th and is buried in the local cemetery....

Claude Monet was an avid horticulturist and arguably the most important painter of gardens in the history of art, but he was not alone. Great artists...

A documentary about the French photographer Nadar aka Gaspard-Félix Tournachon

A short film by Peter Greenaway. It depicts the painting The Wedding Feast at Cana by Paolo Veronese, through mixed media and shows different...

Many twentieth century European artists, such as Paul Gauguin or Pablo Picasso, were influenced by art brought to Europe from African and Asian...