Art History Movies

Art historian Alastair Sooke traces the humanization of the Devil figure in medieval art from the tenth to the fourteenth centuries.

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

Dr. Francis Schaeffer's spectacular series on the rise and decline of Western culture from a Christian perspective.

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

A documentary about the statue Winged Victory of Samothrace, unquestionably one of the most complete expressions of Hellenistic sculpture

A film that looks at the genius of JMW Turner in a new light. There is more to Turner than his sublime landscapes - he also painted machines, science,...

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

A documentary about Tintoretto.

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...

A portrait of Spanish comic book author Paco Plaza.

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...

The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky claimed, or has been credited with, the 'creation' of abstract art. At the core of this film is a dramatic recre...

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...

Emil Nolde was a Nazi – and so what, asks contemporary German artist Daniel Richter. “It’s a moralistic debate. A debate, that mirrors the moralism an...

An account of the life and work of the multidisciplinary Spanish artist Mariano Fortuny Madrazo (1871-1949),textile and fashion designer, set designe...

The inner world of the great painter Max Ernst is the subject of this film. One of the principal founders of Surrealism, Max Ernst explores the nature...

To be in Venice and see the architecture of New York, to perceive in a painting by Tintoretto the birth of animated images, to look at the burlesque C...