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Art Museums of the World : The Louvre - It Began With A Cryptic Smile
Season 1 , Episode 12The world's most famous museums reveal their major collections and the fascinating stories of how they came to house them. This beautiful high-definition series shows what the royalty, nobility and fabulously wealthy inhabitants of France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, the UK and the USA, the original owners of the collections, found beautiful enough to acquire. The stories behind the works and their artists are an intriguing insight into the world and times from which they came. How did Da Vinci's Mona Lisa, arguably the most famous painting in the world, end up in a French museum? -
Art Museums of the World: Uffizi Gallery, Florence
Season 1 , Episode 23The Uffizi Gallery (or Galleria degli Uffizi), is one of the oldest and most celebrated art museums in the world. It is located in the Palazzo degli Uffizi, in Florence, Italy - the home of the European Renaissance. As one might expect from the foremost museum of the Florence Renaissance, its collection of masterpieces from the Proto, Early and High Renaissance eras, initiated by the powerful Medici family, later enlarged by the Lorraine Grand Dukes and completed by the Italian State authorities, is second to none. It also includes other important collections, notably the Contini Bonacossi Collection and the Collection of Prints and Drawings (Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli Uffizi). The Uffizi has been open to visitors since the late 16th century, and was officially opened to the public in 1765. -
Art Museums of the World : The Palatine Gallery, young Raphael
Season 1 , Episode 26The Palazzo Pitti, in English sometimes called the Pitti Palace, is a vast mainly Renaissance palace in Florence, Italy. The palace was bought by the Medici family in 1549 and became the chief residence of the ruling families of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. The Palatine Gallery on the first floor contains a large ensemble of over 500 principally Renaissance paintings, which were once part of the Medicis' and their successors' private art collection. The gallery, which overflows into the royal apartments, contains works by Raphael, Titian, Correggio, Rubens, and Pietro da Cortona. -
Art Museums of the World : Van Gogh Museum, a gift to the family
Season 1 , Episode 22The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam contains the largest collection of van Gogh's paintings in the world. The collection features the works of Vincent van Gogh, and the works of other artists. Van Gogh's work is organised chronologically into five periods, each representing a different phase of his life and work: The Netherlands, Paris, Arles, Saint-Remy and Auvers-sur-Oise. -
Art Museums of the World : Musée Marmottan Monet, three extraordinary events
Season 1 , Episode 16The world's most famous museums reveal their major collections and the fascinating stories of how they came to house them. This beautiful high-definition series shows what the royalty, nobility and fabulously wealthy inhabitants of France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, the UK and the USA, the original owners of the collections, found beautiful enough to acquire. The stories behind the works and their artists are an intriguing insight into the world and times from which they came. -
Art Museums of the World : Kunsthistorisches Museum of Vienna
Season 3 , Episode 4The Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna numbers among the most important European museum buildings put up during the 19th century. The monumental structure, built at the behest of Emperor Franz Joseph I as part of his expansion of the city in 1858, was intended to both unite and appropriately represent the artistic treasures that had been collected by the Habsburgs over the centuries. The Kunsthistorisches Museum is housed in its festive palatial building on Ringstraße, crowned with an octagonal dome, is one of the premier museums of fine arts and decorative arts in the world. -
Art Museums of the World : Gustave Moreau Museum, love sustains enigmatic artists
Season 1 , Episode 15The world's most famous museums reveal their major collections and the fascinating stories of how they came to house them. This beautiful high-definition series shows what the royalty, nobility and fabulously wealthy inhabitants of France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, the UK and the USA, the original owners of the collections, found beautiful enough to acquire. The stories behind the works and their artists are an intriguing insight into the world and times from which they came. This episode features the Museum dedicated to the works of artist Gustave Moreau. -
Art Museums of the World : The Mauritshuis, Vermeer's sparkle of blue magic
Season 1 , Episode 14The world's most famous museums reveal their major collections and the fascinating stories of how they came to house them. This beautiful high-definition series shows what the royalty, nobility and fabulously wealthy inhabitants of France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, the UK and the USA, the original owners of the collections, found beautiful enough to acquire. The stories behind the works and their artists are an intriguing insight into the world and times from which they came. -
Art Museums of the World : Tate Britain, stormy scenes by Turner
Season 1 , Episode 19Tate Britain displays the collection of British art from 1500 to the present day. This episode focues on 19th century landscape artist Joseph Mallord William Turner, one of Britain's most celebrated artists. -
Art Museums of the World : Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum, Rembrandt stands watch
Season 1 , Episode 20An exploration of museum collections, focusing on Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum, whose catalogue includes Rembrandt's The Night Watch. -
Art Museums of the World: Musée d'Orsay: The Nude—Another French Revolution
Season 1 , Episode 27The Musée d'Orsay is a museum on the left bank of the Seine, housed in the former railway station, the Gare d'Orsay, an impressive Beaux-Arts edifice built between 1898 and 1900. It holds mainly French art dating from 1848 to 1915, including paintings, sculptures, furniture, and photography, and is probably best known for its extensive collection of impressionist and post-impressionist masterpieces (the largest in the world) by such painters such as Monet, Manet, Degas, Renoir, Cezanne, Seurat, Gauguin and Van Gogh. Many of these works were held at the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume prior to the museum's opening in 1986. -
Art Museums of the World : Teacher and student, works of love
Season 1 , Episode 24Tucked away in Paris near Les Invalides, and dwarfed in reputation by galleries such as the Louvre and the Musée d'Orsay, the Musée Rodin is a gem for any sculpture enthusiast. The year before he died, Rodin donated all his works to the French government on the condition that the state establish a permanent museum dedicated to his work, and in 1919, the former hotel where he had lived opened as the Rodin Museum. It now houses a great selection of his works, from small busts to the more monumental, such as the famous pieces, The Kiss, The Thinker and the monumental The Gates of Hell. -
Art Museums of the World : The Louvre: Venus de Milo holds secret to ultimate beauty
Season 1 , Episode 1The world's most famous museums reveal their major collections and the fascinating stories of how they came to house them. This beautiful high-definition series shows what the royalty, nobility and fabulously wealthy inhabitants of France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, the UK and the USA, the original owners of the collections, found beautiful enough to acquire. The stories behind the works and their artists are an intriguing insight into the world and times from which they came. Is the secret to Venus de Milo's charm hidden in her perfect proportions? Mathematics could hold the key. -
Art Museums of the World : Toulouse-Lautrec Museum : Images of Monmatre and mother
Season 1 , Episode 25The Henri Toulouse-Lautrec Museum, in the artist's home town of Albi, holds a wide range of his work, from his portraits of renowned artists to his well-known illustrations. It also houses archaeological finds and more modern art. Post-impressionist painter of much fame and great infamy, Toulouse-Lautrec rose to fame for his iconic Moulin Rouge poster and came to command a place among the foremost of his contemporaries. Born in Albi in 1864 into a wealthy family, Toulouse-Lautrec's life was transformed when fractures in both his legs left him disabled. His choice of career surprised his well-to-do family, all the more so when he began to associate with the more colourful side of 19th-century Parisian life and creating posters for cabaret shows.
