The Alhambra was a collaborative creation by architects, gardeners, and decorators who worked together on the organization of perspectives, elevations, and volumes. The whole building presents...

Though much admired in his day, Georges de La Tour subsequently fell into oblivion for over three centuries. This painting, found in a little church in the early 20th century, provides a new...

The statue of the Superintendent Ebih-Il was found by André Parrot in 1933, in the temple of Ishtar at the site of Mari (a southern Syrian city on the banks of the Euphrates, bordering Iraq).

A number of factors contributed to the construction of the Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans, a masterpiece of 18th-century European architecture: financial motivation, industrial innovation, and what its...

"The Abbey Church of St. Foy of Conques" is the first film in the "Architectures" series to present a medieval building; it introduces viewers to one of the most important buildings of 11th-century...

"Touch" presents the various "painter's hands" that characterize the artistic personalities of their owners. The film reviews the history of painting, highlighting two major, contrasting brushstroke...

The drawn or engraved line—the most ancient artistic gesture—provides the basis for all art forms: painting, sculpture, architecture, etc. Mastery of the line was a prerequisite for the conquest of...

The film takes viewers into artists' studios—from the art classroom at the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts to the individual painter's studio—and shows them to be places of creativity and liberty,...