Art History Movies

While on a trip to Paris with his fiancée's family, a nostalgic screenwriter finds himself mysteriously going back to the 1920s every day at midnight.

Katherine Watson is a recent UCLA graduate hired to teach art history at the prestigious all-female Wellesley College, in 1953. Determined to confront...

A daughter is constantly overshadowed by her famous father, but she is determined to make her own mark in the world.

A documentary celebrating Lee Miller, a model-turned-photographer-turned-war reporter who defied anyone who tried to pin her down, put her on a pedest...

Sabine vows to give up married lovers, and is determined to find a good husband. Her best friend Clarisse introduces her to her cousin Edmond, a busy...

Tim Jenison, a Texas based inventor, attempts to solve one of the greatest mysteries in all art: How did Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer manage to paint...

Queen Elizabeth I visits late 1970s England to find a depressing landscape where life has changed since her time.

A look at the Sun, the star that revolves at the center of the Solar System, and its representation in art throughout history.

A portrait of the visionary Dutch artist M. C. Escher (1898-1972),according to his own words, taken from his diary, his correspondence and the texts...

Kingdom of Granada, al-Andalus, 14th century. After recognizing that his land, always under siege, is hopelessly doomed to be conquered, Sultan Yusuf...

An account of the life and work of Swiss painter, sculptor, architect and designer H. R. Giger (1940-2014),tormented father of creatures as fearsome...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

In November 15, 2017, the painting Salvator Mundi, attributed to Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519),was sold for an unprecedented $450 mill...

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...