Art History Movies

"Every single entity contains an adumbration or landskip of the whole Universe" (Jan Baptist van Helmont, 1650).

After the untimely death of his 35-year old brother, an artist explores the questions that surfaced from grief by painting 365 paintings and to spur c...

Documentary about the painters Augustus John and James Dickson Innes who, in 1911, left London for the wild Arenig Valley in North Wales. Over three y...

This documentary features a kinetic artist who creates vibrant mixed media works that push the boundary between 2D and 3D.

Animated short film of Michelangelo set to Beethoven Symphony No. 5 - I. Allegro con brio.

A documentary about Tintoretto.

This film explains what James Ensor (1860-1949) meant for the development of art and makes palpable where he got his inspiration from.

Documentary about the history of 20th century globalization through the lens of the World Trade Organization's changing art collection; from works of...

The multi-talented outsider artist Richard McMahan is on a quest to painstakingly re-create thousands of famous and not-so-famous paintings and artifa...

The history of the Teatro Amazonas in Manaus, an opera house located in the middle of the Amazon rainforest, whose construction, between 1884 and 1896...

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...

Michael Palin travels to France in search of the Mediterranean view on his wall, captured by his favourite artist, Scottish painter Anne Redpath. He t...

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

Seven images, each staging their own disappearance.

In 2009, art detective Dr Bendor Grosvenor caused a national scandal by proving that the Scottish National Portrait Gallery's iconic portrait of Bonni...

About the history of the Dominican Republic's visual arts from the perspective of color given by the incidence of light in the island, alongside the h...