Art History Movies

In the 17th century, the Netherlands experienced an unprecedented artistic explosion: painters such as Rembrandt, Vermeer and Hals were so prolific th...

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

The thousand-year-old tradition of pottery in the Indian subcontinent is now under threat. With the market being flooded with plastic in the evolution...

Acquired in July 1909 by art collector Wilhelm von Bode (1845-1929),director general of the Prussian Art Collections and founding director of the Kai...

This made-for-TV documentary introduces the layperson to concepts and technologies that were emerging in computer interface design in the late 1980s a...

Both a visit to a very peculiar exhibition at the Bundeswehr Military History Museum in Dresden, Germany, as well as an unprejudiced look at the artis...

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

French writer Jean-Claude Carrière (1931-2021) traces the life and work of Spanish painter Francisco de Goya (1746-1828).

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...

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

What started as a simple tomb became over a 2,000 years history the universal seat of Christendom and is today one of the most visited museum in the w...

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

Documentary in which art critic Waldemar Januszczak argues that beauty is still to be found in modern art, despite several recent books claiming the c...

A portrait of Spanish visual artist, writer and art critic Elena Asins (1940-2015),a key figure in geometric abstraction since the sixties.

Exhibition on Screen's latest release celebrates the life and masterpieces of Hieronymus Bosch brought together from around the world to his hometown...