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With loans from across the world, this major retrospective brings together Vermeer’s most famous masterpieces including Girl with a Pearl Earring, The Geographer, The Milkmaid, The Little Street, Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid, and Woman Holding a Balance. In all, 28 of his surviving 37 works. This film invites audiences to a privileged view of the exhibition, accompanied by the director of the Rijksmuseum and the curators of the show. A truly once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to discover the genius of Vermeer and his fascinating and mysterious life.

Founded at the end of the 19th century by the collector Richard Wallace, this private museum in London houses a truly beautiful collection of European paintings. Amongst others, one can admire “The Laughing Cavalier” by Frans Hals or Rembrandt’s portrait of “Titus, the Artist’s Son”. French painting of the 18th century, in Gallant and Rococo vein, is particularly well represented, including none other than the masterpiece of licentious painting: “The Swing” by Fragonard. Enjoy your visit!

In the 16th century, Cardinal Scipione Borghese, the Pope’s nephew, built a villa specifically to house his private art collection, one of the greatest of its time. Bought by the Italian government in 1902, this wonderfully rich collection brings together masterpieces signed by the greatest of artists. You will find one of the copies of Leda and the Swan by da Vinci as well as Caravaggio’s David. Enjoy your visit!

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.

The Alhambra is a palace, or rather a complex of two palaces built by two successive caliphs in the 14th century, Yusuf I (1333-1353) and Mohammed V (1353-1391). These two palaces are surrounded by an older fortress (10th century), crowning a 700-meter-long rocky outcrop with reddish walls (Al-Hamra means red). The two palaces are contiguous. They form a single complex organized around two patios. The overall plan is asymmetrical, with the two patios set at right angles to each other. Circulation is tortuous. In the 14th century, it's hard to imagine an architect who didn't like regularity and symmetry! Here, all is refinement: the earthenware mosaics on the floors, the sculpted plasterwork on the walls, the carved, sculpted and painted woodwork on the ceilings - everything is a declension of geometric, floral or epigraphic motifs. It's all part of a complex yet harmonious decor. To understand this distribution of spaces, so radically different from the Florentine palace or Renaissa

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.

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.

A remarkable event occurred at London’s National Gallery when the largest ever collection of Leonardo’s surviving paintings was assembled in a unique exhibition: Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan. Leonardo is recognised as perhaps the greatest painter and sculptor of all time but there was no end to his talents. This film tells his life story and expands on Leonardo the visionary and inventor from the place where he lived out his final years at Château du Clos Lucé in France, concluding that Leonardo da Vinci was perhaps the very embodiment of the spirit of the Renaissance.

Leader of the School of Pont-Aven, Paul Gauguin, the most exotic of French artists, paved the way for modern painting. There were two main themes which marked his work: Brittany and Tahiti. A rebel, he rejected copying reality in favour of exploring more delicate painting techniques. You will discover here the most important milestones in his work: from “Four Breton Girls” to “Tahitian Women on the Beach”, by way of the surprising “Self Portrait with Yellow Christ”. Enjoy your visit!

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!

Two legends of British comedy, Ronni Ancona and Jan Ravens are joined on this Road Trip by antiquers Phil Serrell and James Braxton. Starting in the North Yorkshire town of Redcar they’ll head for auction in Stockport in Cheshire. Jan gets rather carried away and spends every single penny of her entire budget. While Ronni gets a kick out of a very kitsch glass boot. A quick detour sees Jan find out why Hartlepudlians thought a monkey was a Frenchman and Ronni is left open mouthed when Braxton takes off his clothes. Crikey!

The fire at Notre-Dame de Paris on April 15, 2019, shocked the world. The flames ravaged the cathedral's roof and threatened to destroy its historic heritage, including its precious stained-glass windows and millennia-old sculptures. The firefighters worked tirelessly to bring the blaze under control, managing to save the main structure and some of the most precious relics. The incident sparked a massive wave of international solidarity, with pledges of funding for the reconstruction of this iconic building, which is a symbol of French culture and history.

At the end of the 19th century, illustrated posters took over the walls of Paris, turning the city into a vast open-air museum. Thanks to Jules Chéret, Toulouse-Lautrec, Mucha, and Steinlen, this popular art blended advertising and aesthetics, captivating both passersby and collectors. Images became a powerful vector of modernity, shaping fashion, commerce, and the representation of women. This documentary delves into this visual revolution, tracing the evolution of posters, their role in public spaces, and their artistic legacy. Following the footsteps of Belle Époque artists and strollers, Art Poster in Paris Streets unveils a fascinating story where the streets reflect the cultural and social transformations of the time.

Private Tour takes you to the discovery of the exhibition "Dancing Raw" at LaM in Villeneuve d'Ascq, the museum of modern, contemporary and raw art. This exhibition presents works made by artists, dancers or not, and questions the themes of gesture and movement. It can be a simple photograph immortalizing a movement, a dance, or even reproductions of merry-go-rounds which will remind you the period of childhood.

In 2013, Norway celebrated the 150th anniversary of the birth of Edvard Munch (1863-1944), one of the most prominent figures in modern art. Munch 150, co-produced by the National Museum and the Munch Museum, is already being hailed as "the exhibition of a lifetime". Public interest is enormous, as evidenced by the record-breaking $120 million public auction result for one of his four paintings, The Scream. This presentation will take you behind the scenes of how this exhibition came to be, as well as including a guided tour of Norway, outlining the biography of this man whose life spanned the mid-19th century to the German occupation during the Second World War.

The Sunflowers are among Van Gogh's most famous paintings. The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam has dedicated an exhibition to these works and Exhibition on screen, which was given exclusive access to the event, guides us through the exhibition to investigate the mysteries surrounding these paintings. The film also takes us to Tokyo, Philadelphia, London and Munich to follow the 5 main works in the exhibition.

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.

Legends of stage and screen, Charles Dance and Geraldine James join antiques experts Natasha Raskin and Will Axon on this Road Trip romp around Wiltshire. Charles finds a pair of Edwardian silver vases he hopes will prove profitable at an auction in Essex. Geraldine, however, bumps into a chap in the street with a 19th Century French Empire secretaire. It costs her a small fortune – will the gamble pay off? A diversion from the shops sees Charles end up in the cockpit of a very old helicopter while Geraldine learns how a small part of Swindon dating back 170 years influenced the creation of the modern NHS.

When Chinese painting and its ancestral codes travel the world, Wang Xijing, a master of shan shui landscape painting, becomes an ethnographer, portraying the peoples of Africa, conflicts in Syria, and modern migration routes. Rooted in the highest Chinese pictorial tradition, he captures the types and energies of other peoples using ancestral techniques. Through Wang Xijing’s works, we journey across the globe, guided by the grace of Chinese humanist thought and philosophy.

Today, Travelers takes you to Basel, Switzerland, a city renowned for its culture and art. We'll start by visiting the old town, one of the most beautiful and best preserved in Europe. We will look for one of the 180 fountains in the city and visit the Tinquely Museum. We will go to the Congress Palace and see the Roche Tower, the largest tower in Switzerland.

Move along, there's nothing to see! In April 2018, the Museum "La Piscine de Roubaix" prepared to expand its exhibition space. In a period of six months, several thousand works had to be unhooked, dusted, restored, moved, and reinstalled. These are unique works for which any handling required extreme precautions. Bruno Gaudichon, curator and founder of the museum, had to employ and bring together several workers in ordert to complete a successful reopening.

In the heart of India, Bombay welcome the festival ST+ART, one of the most big urban arts festival in the country. Discover the backstage of the event and understand the relation between the habitants, artists and monumental murals.

While Europe and the United States dominate the art scene after World War II, Mark Rothko and Hans Hartung forged a discreet, friendly and very fertile bond. This documentary introduces the discovery of this little known and fascinating complicity between both artists. On the one hand, Mark Rothko, "the most violent of American painters" in his own words; on the other, Hans Hartung, a brilliant experimenter and "boxer" in front of the canvas. From the moment they met in 1950 in Hans Hartung's studio, there was a collaboration between them that resulted in huge, metaphysical and cataclysmic paintings. Then, Rothko gave a "lesson" to his European colleague, Hartung visited and paid homage to his elder and then mourned his suicide from Antibes, where he had a huge villa-studio built and kept the secrets of his relationship. This Rothko-Hartung encounter is an unprecedented and yet essential subject to understand a part of 20th century art.

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.

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!

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

A cross between Taylorism and Bauhaus, the Van Nelle factory in Rotterdam, built between 1926 and 1931, is a gigantic factory where tobacco, coffee and tea were processed until the 1980s. The image is not that of a simple building, but that of a great machine, a great liner clad in glass and metal. Entirely glazed façades reveal the internal structure of the buildings, allowing workers to work in daylight. All movement is by sight through the glassed-in staircases and walkways - transparency is both a writing effect and a surveillance tool. Built by architects Jan Brickman and Leen Van der Vlugt, under the supervision of Van Nelle boss Kees Van der Leuw, the factory is the most important and accomplished achievement of the modern movement in industrial architecture.

Maastricht, with its Roman, Spanish, French, Germanic and Dutch influences, is a city with an international culture. Gèr Boosten was born in this small Dutch port in 1947. He is a child of the post-war period who became an engraver, draftsman and painter, having exhibited in prestigious museums and galleries.

TV chefs Aldo Zilli and Ching He-Huang do battle on this Road Trip around South Eastern England, aided by experts Natasha Raskin and Paul Laidlaw. Aldo plumps for a gold ring despite expert advice while Ching hopes antiques with an eastern origin will far well at auction in north London. Aldo stops off to meet a 200 year old named ‘Jill’ to hear how she supplied locals with flour. And animal lover Ching learns how one man faced ridicule and ruin while trying to protect cattle in the 19th century.

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.

In this episode, we will meet the artist Simeon Colin. This artist disappears behind the image. He only thinks about the object or the subject. This is a habit perhaps developed during his years as a designer. He believes that trees have the ability to appear for something other than what they are.

Take an hour break to discover the work of an Italian painter, Caravaggio. You will discover his labour with Bacchus, Mary Magdalene or Christ at the Column.

Take an hour break to discover the work of a Italien painter, Sandro Botticelli. You will discover his labour with Abundance or autumn, The story of virginia, Venus and Mars.