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Using a funerary portrait from the Fayum preserved at the Louvre Museum, this documentary explores the art of portrait painting in Roman Egypt during...
Le Dernier Regard – L’Européenne, portrait du Fayoum
These three very big panels scattered in three different museums (London, Paris and Florence) are considered to be a sort of manifesto of the new art...
Paolo Uccello « Vacarmes en Toscane, La Bataille de San Romano »
Raphael strives to capture the open and sympathetic face of his friend and deliberately simplifies his composition. Yet the image is filled with...
Rafaello Sanzio dit Raphaël « Portrait de l’ami en homme de cour, Portrait de Baldassare Castiglione »
Shitao, one of the most skilled painters of his time, was deeply imbued with Buddhist spirituality, as he was forced to take refuge in monasteries...
Shitao « L’Unique trait de pinceau »
The Pilgrimage to Cythera's island is one of the glories of the Louvre Museum. Praised by Baudelaire, Nerval and Proust, copied by countless...
Jean Antoine Watteau « Le pèlerinage à l’île de Cythère, Les secrets de la fête galante »
In october 1888 Vincent Van Gogh who has been living for eight months in Arles, paints his room. A year later, when he is at the Saint-Paul de...
Van Gogh « La haute note jaune »
In 1630, Rubens who is settled in Anvers marries in a second marriage Hélène Fourment. In the huge studio he has had built, he paints...
Rubens « La gloire de la chair »
A square format market by the rhythms of its many obliques (the frame of the glass window, the guardrail in the foreground) and its brilliant colours...
Pierre Bonnard « Le mimosa mimétique »
Gauguin was a sailor and then a stockbroker at the money market. Husband of a young Danish woman, Mette Gad, he became a father. Then, he started...
Gauguin « Harmonies sauvages »
Composed in Nice, at the Hôtel Régina where the painter had been living since 1949, The Sadness of the King, a 1952 painting nearly four...
Henri Matisse « A vif dans la couleur »
This is certainly the most mysterious painting of all the history of painting. Thirty different attempts of finding out the hidden meaning of it have...
Piero Della Francesca « Le rêve de la diagonale, La Flagellation »
In 79 AD, the eruption of Mount Vesuvius buried the city and inhabitants of Pompeii under volcanic debris and preserved—until excavations in...
Pompéi « Cérémonies secrètes »
At the time Wassily Kandinsky painted Yellow-Red-Blue (1925), he was a professor at the Bauhaus. In this work, the painter applies the principles of...
Kandinsky « Figures de l’invisible »
The silhouette of a giant wave about to engulf fragile boats: this image of suspended fate has traveled the world in the form of postcards, posters,...
Hokusai « La Menace suspendue »
The description of the Greek world that Homer gave in the 8th century B.C. was long considered as a purely mythological account. However, in the 19th...
Dans le sillage d'Ulysse
A fast-paced documentary about a second generation of punk rockers living in Toronto. It offers insight into this segment of culture by videotaping...
Not Dead Yet
Born in Aix-en-Provence, Cézanne returns to settle there after some journeys elsewhere. He takes as his motif the Sainte-Victoire mountain...
Cézanne « La violence du motif »
Euphronios is one of the rare Greek vase painters whose name has come down to us. An exceptional artist, he stopped painting at the height of his...
Euphronios « Euphronios a peint »
On the right, a very dark tree clings to the slope of a hill. At the center stands Saint Anne. She wears her hair in braids, her eyes lowered,...
Léonard de Vinci « Le sourire et l’entrelacs, La Vierge, l’enfant Jésus et Sainte Anne »
Why have these two paintings, The Young Women and The Old Women, always been presented together? Historical investigation does not provide an answer....
Francisco de Goya « La Lettre, la Flèche et le Balai »
