Art History Movies

The representation of genitalia in the fine arts was censored for centuries: sexual organs were discreetly hidden among fig leaves, pearls or sheets;...

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

The Kiss by Gustav Klimt is one of the most recognised and reproduced paintings in the world. It is perhaps the most popular poster on student dorm...

The painter Alfons Mucha and his Slovanská epopej are the subject of a story by Zdeněk Mahler. After long debates and disputes, the work...

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

In 1940, the German artist Charlotte Salomon (1917-43) undertook an extraordinary artistic adventure, during which she combined painting, text and...

Black Is the Color highlights key moments in the history of Black visual art, from Edmonds Lewis’s 1867 sculpture Forever Free, to the work of...

M.C. Escher is among the most intriguing of artists. In 1956 he challenged the laws of perspective with his graphic Print Gallery and his uncompleted...

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 movie about James Tissot (1836-1902), a French painter and portraitist

A Renaissance masterpiece painted by Hans Holbein the Younger, “The Ambassadors” is teeming with details and hidden messages. By...

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

An archival documentary exploring the life and work of Iranian photographer Iraj Ganjei through a rediscovered collection of photographs, letters,...