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After a two-year touring exhibition, in 2015 Girl with a Pearl Earring returned to the Mauritshuis Museum in The Hague. At 350 years old, the eternal Girl has always retained her aura of mystery and charm. The proof is in the number of curious onlookers (1.2 million) who flocked to catch a glimpse of her during her stay in Japan. The documentary seeks to uncover the many enigmas surrounding this extraordinary painting and its mysterious creator - Vermeer. Who was this girl? Why and how did Vermeer paint this picture? Come and travel back in time to discover Johannes Vermeer, visit the charming museum in The Hague and answer all these questions.

Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) is a German Romantic painter who concentrated mainly on landscape art, which he rendered in minute detail. He was rediscovered at the end of the 19th century. A melancholy character, he peopled his canvases with human figures seen from behind, contemplating the enormity of nature, for example in his famous “The Wanderer above the Mists” in Hamburg or the “Chalk Cliffs on Rügen”. Notice his superb landscapes with their twilight tones. Enjoy your visit!

At the top of a sloping garden, a mysterious white dome and an undulating glass facade: the House of the French Communist Party, built between 1965 and 1980 by Oscar Niemeyer. A fine example of Jean Prouvé's curtain wall façade, the extraordinary Central Committee room under the dome is one of the finest Parisian buildings of the period.

In 64 episodes, fun and educational, you will know how to draw an airplane, a fireman, a haunted mansion, a soccer player, a sunset, a lion, the Eiffel Tower, seashells, a fairy... Our master draftsman Gia-Haï Phan will show you the basics of a successful drawing: proportions, perspectives, values, contrasts, volumes, blending, everything is covered.

Raphael Federici (street artist), Marine Goodmorning (illustrator), Luca Fiore (cartoonist) and Harry Boudchicha (drawing teacher) reveal their best drawing techniques. Each episode focuses on a specific subject: movement, oil painting, shadows, hair... For the first 10 minutes, each artist gives a theoretical lesson illustrated by sketches. Then they each start working on their creation. Finally, they end with a debrief, comparing and explaining their techniques

Test and develop your artistic culture with Art Quiz, the game that will allow you to become unaware of art. Whether it's artists, works of art, artistic trends, the price of works... nothing will be a secret for you anymore. Now it's your turn to play!

My little Museum is Art History retold through funny anecdotes and backstage trivias by Alicia Flipo. With her wacky demeanor, her inventiveness and her quirky sense of humor, Alicia stages these small Art tales so that once and for all, you could remember the Big stories!

Two stars of the seventies, cool crooner Tony Christie and pop royalty Jimmy Osmond are accompanied by experts Catherine Southon and Margie Cooper. Blasting off from the Leicestershire town of Loughborough they’ll head for an auction in the Staffordshire city of Stoke-on-Trent. Tony squeezes in a visit to Coalbrookdale, the place where ground breaking techniques were developed that kick-started the industrial revolution. And petrol-head Jimmy gets to whizz round the historical race circuit at Donington. The big auction finale includes a sing-a-long like no other. But which musical maestro will clinch victory?

Based on a major exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, Tokyo Stories spans 400 years of incredibly rich art, from Hokusai’s prints to Pop Art posters, via contemporary photography, manga, cinema and street art. The exhibition was a huge success and attracted a significantly younger and more diverse audience than usual. The film draws on the exhibition to take us to Tokyo and explore the city’s art and artistic figures in greater depth. A superbly illustrated and richly detailed documentary, which traces the journey of a metropolis marked by ceaseless cycles of destruction and rebirth throughout its 400-year history, to become one of the most dynamic and fascinating cities in the world today.

Lachlan Goudie follows Jesus’s last days on earth the Holy Week events that see him travel from the north of what is now Israel to Jerusalem, and the crucifixion. It’s a pilgrimage that millions undertake, and a story of love and suffering that has inspired some of the world’s most remarkable masterpieces.

Karel Appel’s father forced him to take over the hairdressing business, but Karel only wanted one thing: to become a painter. And he did: A great master ahead of his time, a world famous painter even. In 1949, when he was still unknown and penniless, he made "Child, Church, Animal". Actually nothing is known about the construction of this painting. Not more than you can discover at first sight. To find out more, we have to take a closer look at the work using a microscope. It seems as if the work consists of several layers.

Private Tour takes you to the discovery of the exhibition "Cubism" at the Centre Pompidou. This exhibition gathers more than 300 works and focuses on the history of this founding movement of the 20th century. We will start from the sources of cubism, by presenting what the artists saw and looked at to free themselves from all the academic conventions of this time. We will also see that music had a very important place in the works of this movement as in the work "Musical Instruments" by Georges Braque.

Simultaneously painter and diplomat, Peter Paul Rubens, (1577-1640) was an essential personality in Europe’s 17th century artistic scene. He painted vast compositions for princely families of the time like the Marie de Medici cycle now housed in the Louvre Museum. He also personified the baroque vein in Northern Europe, developing a style of perpetual movement with luminous coloured strokes as in the “Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus” exhibited in Munich. Enjoy your visit!

At the top of a sloping garden, a mysterious white dome and an undulating glass facade: the House of the French Communist Party, built between 1965 and 1980 by Oscar Niemeyer. A fine example of Jean Prouvé's curtain wall façade, the extraordinary Central Committee room under the dome is one of the finest Parisian buildings of the period.

Leonardo da Vinci is one of the world's most adored artists. Numerous films and documentary series have focused on his uncommon genius, but without paying attention to what speaks for itself: his art. Leonardo da Vinci's incomparable paintings and drawings will be the focus of our film, and Exhibition on Screen will present all the paintings attributed to him.

My little Museum is Art History retold through funny anecdotes and backstage trivias by Alicia Flipo. With her wacky demeanor, her inventiveness and her quirky sense of humor, Alicia stages these small Art tales so that once and for all, you could remember the Big stories!

It is in the center of Buenos Aires that Eduardo Stupia decided to install his studio entirely dedicated to creation. In a 20th century house, wedged between two modern buildings, he occupies a large space in which he can indulge in his favorite art, drawing. His works, which he describes himself as abstract landscapes, are drawn with pencil, charcoal or Indian ink. In his heterogeneous compositions, where the graphic language and the precision of the gesture hold a central place, Eduardo Stupia explores the semantics of the drawing and opens the fields of the imagination.

In this episode, we will talk about the artist Antoine Bourdelle. Son of a carpenter who moved to the capital, Antoine Bourdelle became the most important official sculptor at the beginning of the 20th century. This pupil of Rodin took on numerous commissions in France and abroad. But he also kept some of his sculptures still present today in his workshop in the Montparnasse district, a magical place, which has remained frozen in the past.

In this episode, we will meet Pierre Morel, a photojournalist. He started this job very young and considers it a way of commitment and activism. What interests him is to have the point of view of several photographers on the society and he tries to give his own point of view in his turn.

Two stars of the seventies, cool crooner Tony Christie and pop royalty Jimmy Osmond are accompanied by experts Catherine Southon and Margie Cooper. Blasting off from the Leicestershire town of Loughborough they’ll head for an auction in the Staffordshire city of Stoke-on-Trent. Tony squeezes in a visit to Coalbrookdale, the place where ground breaking techniques were developed that kick-started the industrial revolution. And petrol-head Jimmy gets to whizz round the historical race circuit at Donington. The big auction finale includes a sing-a-long like no other. But which musical maestro will clinch victory?

Actors and friends from Casualty Susan Cookson and Suzannne Packer swap surgery scrubs for a 1965 Sunbeam Tiger as they battle it out on around the North West of England, assisted by James Braxton and David Harper. Susan discovers her inner haggler as Suzanne keeps the purse string very tight as she bids to discover an item with some real age. As the trip winds across Yorkshire there is the chance to meet a very special woman from Sheffield and a look around some incredible gardens with an amazing history.

John Singer Sargent is known as the greatest portrait artist of his era. What made his ‘swagger’ portraits remarkable was his power over his sitters, what they wore and how they were presented to the audience. Through interviews with curators, contemporary fashionistas and style influencers, Exhibition on Screen’s film will examine how Sargent’s unique practice has influenced modern art, culture and fashion.

In this episode, we will spend a special day with Charlotte Le Percin, cultural mediator at the Cernuschi Museum in Paris. She is the intermediary between the works and the visitors. Her audience ranges from kindergarteners to pensioners. With her, we will discover the life of a guide in a museum.

The City of Architecture and Heritage is a place dedicated to the art of building, its challenges, its eras, its styles, and its great masters. How are the major buildings of our time and of the past designed? Why and for whom were they built? The museum brings together a collection that allows you to navigate through centuries of architecture, to admire masterpieces usually out of sight, and to understand the great evolutions over the ages, from the 12th century to the present day.

David Hockney, generally considered one of Britain's most popular artists, is enjoying worldwide success, with exhibitions in London, New York, Paris and elsewhere attracting millions of visitors. Now in his eighties, Hockney shows no sign of letting up or losing his legendary audacity. This film reveals intimate, previously unseen interviews and focuses on two successful exhibitions that took place in 2012 and 2016 at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.

From the birth of a unique voice in the artworld of the sixties, to worldwide consecration in the 90’s and 2000’s… From the “Ecole des Beaux Arts” in Paris to the Grand Prize of Rome, going all the way through Italy’s Villa Medicis and the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg… André Brasilier is a self-defined “transfigurative” French painter, seeking harmony between plastic construction and emotion, and drawing his inspiration from life itself. As he is nearing his 100th birthday, this exclusive documentary invites you to step through a retrospective celebrating 70 years of a unique career, which is held at the Hangaram Design Museum of Seoul, South Korea.

Vincent van Gogh's life remains shrouded in mystery: madness, illness, suicide - all the ingredients to create a myth. With complete and unprecedented access to the treasures of Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum, this documentary sheds light on both one of the world's favorite artists and the museum's rich and unique collection. Discover these marvelous masterpieces on the big screen, while guests including world-renowned curators and art historians offer their interpretations and explanations of Van Gogh's work.

200 years after it opened and a century after acquiring its first Van Gogh works, the National Gallery hosted the largest Van Gogh exhibition ever held in the UK (September 14, 2024 to January 19, 2025). The exhibition was a huge success, unanimously praised by the press, and tickets sold out quickly, making this film the only way to see what Forbes called a “once-in-a-lifetime exhibition.” Discover the passion that drove one of the world's most beloved artists to revolutionize art. Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers rewrites history and celebrates Van Gogh's genius without exploiting his suffering, allowing audiences to truly understand this iconic artist in a whole new way...

On this July 14, 1906, day of the French national day, the tricolored flags float in the streets of Le Havre. Discover sumptuous works with landscapes of all kinds.

An emblematic figure in Europe at the turn of the 18th century, this corporal who became Emperor of France unleashed the imagination of artists from whom he commissioned many works. Discover the victorious young “Bonaparte at the Pont d’Arcole” immortalised by the Antoine-Jean Gros in 1796. Observe also the portraits of all the guests present during the “Coronation of Napoleon” and his triumphant gesture as he crowned his wife Josephine in David’s masterpiece displayed in the Louvre Museum. Enjoy your visit!

Test and develop your artistic culture with Art Quiz, the game that will allow you to become unaware of art. Whether it's artists, works of art, artistic trends, the price of works... nothing will be a secret for you anymore. Now it's your turn to play!

Top presenting pals Nicki Chapman and Jules Hudson escape to the country to find antiques with Natasha Raskin and Phillip Serrell. It becomes girls versus boys, both teams with £400 in their pockets. Kicking off from Wormsley in Herefordshire they Road Trip into Wales and Oxfordshire, before finally finishing in North Finchley, in London for an auction. Along the way the girls meet a clog maker who carves shoes by hand. While the boys head to the Herefordshire Light Infantry Museum to hear about the regiment’s involvement at Gallipoli.

In this episode, the candidates Marine and Nicolas will have one hour to walk the streets of Bordeaux under the rain. The imposed theme is: Bordeaux and its inhabitants. They must exceptionally respect an imposed route and take a photograph of the quays.

In this episode, we go to the center of Berlin. This is where the artist Maria Volokhova has set up her studio. An artist who navigates the border between art and design, Maria Volokhova is fascinated by the interior of the human or animal body. She creates functional porcelain objects for everyday life, but she is dedicated above all to the aesthetics of her art.

Take an hour break to discover the work of a French painter, Paul Cezanne. You will discover his labour with his still-life, mill on the Couleuvre at Pontoise, Young girl with doll.

Take an hour break to discover the work of a French painter, Auguste Renoir. You will discover his labour with Girls at the piano, The Bathers, still-life with apples and pears.

They are the world’s most popular artists. The works of Cézanne, Monet, Degas and their compatriots fetch tens of millions of dollars. But just who were they really? Why and how did they paint? What lies behind their enduring appeal? To help answer these questions, this programme secured unique access to a major exhibition focussing on the 19th century Parisian art collector Paul Durand-Ruel, the outspoken champion of Impressionism. This eagerly anticipated exhibition is perhaps the most comprehensive ever held about the Impressionists.

Antonio Canal, known as Canaletto, and Francesco Guardi are the best known 18th century painters of the urban Venetian landscape. In minute detail, they painted iconic views of the Venetian Republic, destined for rich foreign visitors. “Maria della Salute from the Grand Canal in Venice” by Canaletto and “Venice: Piazza San Marco” by Guardi followed this trend. Later Venice also inspired Paul Signac’s “The Green Veil, Venice”. Go on a voyage of discovery... Enjoy your visit!

Discover some of the works of Georges Seurat realized during the end of the 19th century. These works are exhibited in Paris, Troyes or London.

Raphael Federici (street artist), Marine Goodmorning (illustrator), Luca Fiore (cartoonist) and Harry Boudchicha (drawing teacher) reveal their best drawing techniques. Each episode focuses on a specific subject: movement, oil painting, shadows, hair... For the first 10 minutes, each artist gives a theoretical lesson illustrated by sketches. Then they each start working on their creation. Finally, they end with a debrief, comparing and explaining their techniques

In 64 episodes, fun and educational, you will know how to draw an airplane, a fireman, a haunted mansion, a soccer player, a sunset, a lion, the Eiffel Tower, seashells, a fairy... Our master draftsman Gia-Haï Phan will show you the basics of a successful drawing: proportions, perspectives, values, contrasts, volumes, blending, everything is covered.

Set on the shores of Lake Geneva, a wave of concrete and glass has inspired many metaphors since its construction: some see it as a slice of Emmental cheese, others as a molecular fabric, and still others as a moth-eaten flying carpet. The building houses a "Learning Center", a new concept for a multifunctional space dedicated to knowledge.

Passionate about horticulture, Monet remains the undisputed master of garden painting in the history of art, but he was not alone. Artists such as Van Gogh, Bonnard, Picasso and Matisse used the garden as a strong theme in their work. These great artists, along with many other famous names, are brought together in an innovative exhibition from the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Royal Gallery of Arts in London. From the exhibition itself to the beauty of artists' gardens such as Monet's at Giverny, we take a journey to discover how the modern garden was used to explore radical and wondrous new ideas.

Wilhelm Hansen was a visionary businessman who lived in Denmark in the 19th century. He was one of the few collectors to take an interest in the Impressionist painters, at a time when they were attacked and denigrated. The film takes us to Hansen's summer home on the outskirts of Copenhagen, and to the extraordinary exhibition of his collection at London's Royal Academy.

Discover the work of Matisse through the exhibitions at Tate Modern in London and MoMA in New York (2014) and enjoy the original performance of Royal Ballet star dancer Zenaida Yanowsky, who interprets the colors and dynamism of Matisse's painting to the jazz music of Courtney Pine. Punctuated by interviews with experts and rare archival footage of Matisse at work, this documentary will provide a special insight into the last chapter of the painter's career.

Discover or rediscover the masterpieces by Gustave Moreau (1826-1898) on display at the Musée d'Orsay, the Gustave Moreau Museum in Paris...

The Musée d’Orsay, originally a railway station built in Paris for the 1900 World’s Fair, houses European artworks dating from 1848 to 1914. Numerous artistic styles are on display: academism, realism, symbolism, Art Nouveau and of course, impressionism with world famous works such as Manet’s “Olympia”, Renoir’s “Ball at the Moulin de la Galette”, Degas’ “The Star on Stage” and Seurat’s “Circus”. Enjoy your visit!

An art genre which has existed since antiquity, still-lifes became popular again in 17th century European painting. Depicting inanimate objects, compositions might be confined to a meal on a table, as in Lubin’s frugal “Still-Life with Water Biscuits”, or portray hunted animals as in the “Still-Life with Pheasant” by Jean-Baptiste Oudry. You will also find famous still-lifes by Chardin, Cézanne and Van Gogh. Enjoy your visit!

The spectacular sculptures and paintings of Michelangelo seem so familiar to us, but what do we really know about this renaissance genius? Who was this ambitious and passionate man? A virtuoso craftsman, Michelangelo’s artistry is evident in everything he touched. Beautiful and diverse works such as the towering statue of David, the deeply moving Pietà in the Papal Basilica of St. Peter and his tour-de-force, the Sistine Chapel ceiling still leave us breathless today.

No artist captured the essence and charm of Venice better than Giovanni Antonio Canal, better known as Canaletto. This remarkable collection of over 200 paintings, drawings and etchings allows us to discover Canaletto's artistic talent, his contemporaries and the city he reproduced with genius. The film also opens the doors of two official royal residences, Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle, to reveal more about the artist and Joseph Smith, the man who introduced Canaletto to Britain.

David Hockney, generally considered one of Britain's most popular artists, is enjoying worldwide success, with exhibitions in London, New York, Paris and elsewhere attracting millions of visitors. Now in his eighties, Hockney shows no sign of letting up or losing his legendary audacity. This film reveals intimate, previously unseen interviews and focuses on two successful exhibitions that took place in 2012 and 2016 at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.

Narrated by Gillian Anderson, this episode of Exhibition on Screen follows the footsteps of French artists such as Renoir and Monet, the American Impressionist movement forged its own path. Painted over a period of 40 years, these paintings reveal the United States both as a nation and as a creative breeding ground. The history of this movement is closely linked to the love of gardens and the desire to preserve nature in a country undergoing rapid urbanization. This enchanting journey through workshops, gardens and famous sites in the USA, UK and France is a feast for the eyes.

200 years after it opened and a century after acquiring its first Van Gogh works, the National Gallery hosted the largest Van Gogh exhibition ever held in the UK (September 14, 2024 to January 19, 2025). The exhibition was a huge success, unanimously praised by the press, and tickets sold out quickly, making this film the only way to see what Forbes called a “once-in-a-lifetime exhibition.” Discover the passion that drove one of the world's most beloved artists to revolutionize art. Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers rewrites history and celebrates Van Gogh's genius without exploiting his suffering, allowing audiences to truly understand this iconic artist in a whole new way...

In June 2017, a major exhibition opened in Paris at the Musée d'Orsay. For the first time, this exhibition brought together all Cézanne's portraits. This was an opportunity to analyze Cézanne's work with the help of international experts and to tour the rooms of the National Portrait Gallery in London and the National Gallery of Art in Washington.

Exhibition on Screen takes us through the streets of Paris and then to the heart of a superb exhibition at Cambridge's Fitzwilliam Museum, whose impressive collection of Degas works is the most representative in Britain. Having benefited from exclusive access to a wide variety of rare works, the film tells the story of Degas' quest for perfection through experimentation.

Established as a pictorial genre in its own right during the Renaissance, the female nude became one of the most important subjects in European painting. Under pretexts both mythological (Titian’s “Venus of Urbino”) and biblical (Rembrandt’s “Bathsheba at her Bath”) or Oriental (Ingres’“Great Odalisque”), the female body was unveiled. These pretexts vanish with Manet’s “Olympia”, a simple portrayal of a contemporary woman naked, which resulted in scandal. Enjoy your visit!

Based on a major exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, Tokyo Stories spans 400 years of incredibly rich art, from Hokusai’s prints to Pop Art posters, via contemporary photography, manga, cinema and street art. The exhibition was a huge success and attracted a significantly younger and more diverse audience than usual. The film draws on the exhibition to take us to Tokyo and explore the city’s art and artistic figures in greater depth. A superbly illustrated and richly detailed documentary, which traces the journey of a metropolis marked by ceaseless cycles of destruction and rebirth throughout its 400-year history, to become one of the most dynamic and fascinating cities in the world today.

During the 20th century, the fame of the ‘Mona Lisa’ spread, establishing itself as the most iconic and recognisable painting of all time. It has been exploited in every sphere of culture and advertising, to the extent that its status as a pop icon has almost overshadowed its artistic value and historical significance. But if we consider Leonardo’s achievements as a pioneering craftsman and the unprecedented qualities of this work, the ‘Mona Lisa’ truly marked a turning point in portraiture. A masterpiece that set new standards in its day and which, five hundred years later, has become the very symbol of art.

Leonardo da Vinci is one of the world's most adored artists. Numerous films and documentary series have focused on his uncommon genius, but without paying attention to what speaks for itself: his art. Leonardo da Vinci's incomparable paintings and drawings will be the focus of our film, and Exhibition on Screen will present all the paintings attributed to him.

Francisco Goya, considered the founder of modern art, is Spain's most acclaimed artist. As well as a gifted observer of Spanish life and its turbulent past, he is a gifted portraitist and social commentator. With Goya, the art of portraiture reached new heights. This major exhibition at London's National Gallery brings his genius back into the spotlight. Through a formidable collection of unique works and letters by Goya, we analyze the man himself and the world he painted.

The Impressionists are the most popular group in art history - millions flock every year to marvel at their masterpieces. But, to begin with, they were scorned, penniless outsiders. 1874 was the year that changed everything; the first Impressionists, “hungry for independence”, broke the mould by holding their own exhibition outside official channels. Impressionism was born and the art world was changed forever. What led to that first groundbreaking show 150 years ago? Who were the maverick personalities that wielded their brushes in such a radical and provocative way? The spectacular Musée d’Orsay exhibition brings fresh eyes to this extraordinary tale of passion and rebellion. The story is told not by historians and curators but in the words of those who witnessed the dawn of Impressionism: the artists, press and people of Paris, 1874. See the show that changed everything on the big screen.

Simultaneously painter and diplomat, Peter Paul Rubens, (1577-1640) was an essential personality in Europe’s 17th century artistic scene. He painted vast compositions for princely families of the time like the Marie de Medici cycle now housed in the Louvre Museum. He also personified the baroque vein in Northern Europe, developing a style of perpetual movement with luminous coloured strokes as in the “Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus” exhibited in Munich. Enjoy your visit!

Two stars of the seventies, cool crooner Tony Christie and pop royalty Jimmy Osmond are accompanied by experts Catherine Southon and Margie Cooper. Blasting off from the Leicestershire town of Loughborough they’ll head for an auction in the Staffordshire city of Stoke-on-Trent. Tony squeezes in a visit to Coalbrookdale, the place where ground breaking techniques were developed that kick-started the industrial revolution. And petrol-head Jimmy gets to whizz round the historical race circuit at Donington. The big auction finale includes a sing-a-long like no other. But which musical maestro will clinch victory?

Today, Photo contest takes you to the Rodin Museum. The director of the photographers’ collective Lengos photo prod presents us two of its members who will compete to take the best photograph on the imposed theme: Rodin and his museum.

Take an hour break to discover the work of an Italian painter, Raphaël. You will discover his labour with Spozalizio, The virgin and child with St John the Baptist or portrait of Baldassare Castiglione.

Take an hour break to discover the work of a Franco-Danish painter, Camille Pissarro. You will discover his labour with View from Louveciennes, A path through the fields, Pontoise or Peasant girl making a fire.