Season 1 (2015)

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The Moneylender and his Wife (1514) by Quentin Massys
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November 1, 2015 • 26m

16th century Antwerp was like 1950s New York. The city of craftsmen and fishermen at the entrance to the North Sea became a leadin...Read more

The Artist's Studio (1855) by Gustave Courbet
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November 8, 2015 • 26m

Paris shone brightly in the second half of the 19th century, with its fashionable restaurants, and its cabarets and theatres, whic...Read more

Bathers at Asniers (1884) by Georges Seurat
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November 15, 2015 • 26m

At the end of the 19th century, Asnieres resembled a seaside resort. The cheering crowd that came to attend the regattas animated ...Read more

Las Meninas (1665) by Diego Velazquez
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November 22, 2015 • 26m

In the mid-17th century, Madrid experienced its Golden Age. The Royal Alcazar of Madrid, a legacy of the Muslim sovereignty that h...Read more

The Wedding at Cana (1563) by Paolo Veronese
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November 29, 2015 • 26m

In "The Wedding at Cana", Paolo Veronese transposes the biblical tale of Christ's first miracle to the scene of a sumptuous Veneti...Read more

The Martyrdom of Saint Appolonia (1461) by Jean Fouquet
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December 6, 2015 • 26m

With a tiny and delicate paintbrush, Jean Fouquet adds the golden threads of a tentative humanism to "The Martyrdom of Saint Apoll...Read more

A Lady in Her Bath (1571) by Francois Clouet
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December 13, 2015 • 26m

"A Lady in Her Bath" (circa 1571), by Francois Clouet, bears witness to a period in which the pleasure of the senses and the spiri...Read more

Marie-Antoinette de Lorraine-Habsbourg, Queen of France and Her Children (1787) by Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun
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December 13, 2015 • 26m

As the French Revolution approached, Louise Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun painted the queen's portrait in an attempt to win back public ...Read more

Women of Algiers in Their Apartment (1834) by Eugène Delacroix
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December 20, 2015 • 26m

As the war of colonization raged in Algeria, Eugene Delacroix was the first French artist to cross the Mediterranean. The naturali...Read more

Colorful Life (1907) by Wassily Kandinsky
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January 3, 2016 • 26m

The roots of "Colourful Life" (1907), just like those of Vassily Kandinsky himself, were firmly anchored in age-old Russian soil. ...Read more

Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? 1897, Paul Gauguin
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August 28, 2016 • 26m

Episode 11 of Season 1 premiered on August 28, 2016

Temptations of St. Anthony, 1501, Hieronymus Bosch
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September 4, 2016 • 26m

Episode 12 of Season 1 premiered on September 4, 2016

Western Port in Frankfurt am Main, 1916, Ludwig Kirchner
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September 11, 2016 • 26m

Episode 13 of Season 1 premiered on September 11, 2016

Lady and the Unicorn, Circa 1500, Anonymous
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September 18, 2016 • 26m

Episode 14 of Season 1 premiered on September 18, 2016

The Primavera, 1482, Sandro Botticelli
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September 25, 2016 • 26m

Episode 15 of Season 1 premiered on September 25, 2016

The Astronomer (1668) by Johannes Vermeer
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December 3, 2017 • 26m

Episode 16 of Season 1 premiered on December 3, 2017

The Night Watch (1642) by Rembrandt Van Rijn
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December 10, 2017 • 26m

Episode 17 of Season 1 premiered on December 10, 2017

The Second of May 1808 (1814) by Francisco Goya
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December 17, 2017 • 26m

Episode 18 of Season 1 premiered on December 17, 2017

Women on a Café Terrace in the Evening (1877) by Edgar Degas
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December 24, 2017 • 26m

Episode 19 of Season 1 premiered on December 24, 2017

View of Warsaw From the Terrace of the Royal Palace (1773) by Bernardo Bellotto
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December 31, 2017 • 26m

Episode 20 of Season 1 premiered on December 31, 2017

Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette, 1876, Renoir
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January 27, 2019 • 26m

Episode 21 of Season 1 premiered on January 27, 2019

Pulcinella and Acrobats, 1797, Tiepolo
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February 3, 2019 • 26m

Episode 22 of Season 1 premiered on February 3, 2019

The Slave Ship, 1840, J.M. Turner
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February 10, 2019 • 26m

Episode 23 of Season 1 premiered on February 10, 2019

Men of the Docks, 1912, Bellows
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February 17, 2019 • 26m

Episode 24 of Season 1 premiered on February 17, 2019