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TV Shows & Series: Best "art history" TV Shows/Series


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Bares für Rares(2013-)

FSK: 6+ years
| 45min per episode | Talk-Show, Reality-TV, Documentary
3.5/5 (with 3 votes)

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1 minute in a museum(2004-2010)

1min per episode | Animation
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Nabi, Rafaël and Mona are small but boy can they talk up a storm as they comment, in their own particular way, on all of the masterpieces in the wonderful museums of our lovely country. They will span the ages from classical painting to modern art and Islamic art. It’s a great, hassle-free way of brushing up on your Art and sounding really smart at your next milk and cookies cocktail.

Becoming Frida Kahlo(2023)

1h per episode | Documentary
3.7/5 (with 2 votes)

A look into Frida Kahlo's world, revealing an artist driven by politics, power, sex and identity, with her epic love affair with Diego Rivera at the heart of it all.

How Art Made The World(2005)

1h per episode | Documentary
4.2/5 (with 3 votes)

Nigel Spivey reveals how the images which surround us today come from the ancient world. It's an epic journey spanning five continents and a hundred thousand years of history.

Lost Women Art(2021)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 45min per episode | Documentary

Women write art history – but in turn are systematically ignored by it. LOST WOMEN ART tells the story of the suppressed female avant-garde and by doing so introduces a new art history.

Simon Schama's History of Now(2022-)

In his most personal project to date, Simon Schama looks back at the dramatic history that has played out in his lifetime. Best known for writing history, he has lived a fair bit of it too. Born in 1945, on the night of the bombing of Dresden, Simon grew up as part of a generation determined to rebuild the world from the ashes of war. In this film, he reveals the stories of artists and writers who have been at the forefront of the fight for truth and democracy, often at great personal cost.

Rebuilding Ancient Rome(2015-)

2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Supported by stunning 3D graphics, Dr. Darius Arya explains the purpose and architectural significance of ancient Roman buildings.

Art Traffickers: Treasures Stolen from the Tombs(2021-)

45min per episode | Documentary
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Through a combination of interviews and studio reconstructions, recount the gripping stories behind those who have excavated and stolen masterpieces.

The Art of Gothic: Britain's Midnight Hour(2014)

1h per episode | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Andrew Graham-Dixon explores how a group of 19th-century architects and artists spurned the modern age and turned to Britain's medieval past to create iconic works and buildings.

Sister Wendy's Story of Painting(1996)

30min per episode | Documentary
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Sister Wendy Beckett takes a journey through the history of art in this ten-part series.

Baroque! From St Peter's to St Paul's(2009-)

4.5/5 (with 1 vote)

In this three-part documentary series Waldemar Januszczak discovers paintings, sculptures and architecture of the Baroque period. Starting from the square of Saint Peter's Basilica in Italy to St Paul's Cathedral in England.

Art of France(2017)

Andrew Graham-Dixon examines the history of French art, revealing how it emerged from a struggle between tradition and revolution, and rulers and citizens. He compresses centuries of culture into three thematically linked chapters.

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The Art Mysteries with Waldemar Januszczak(2020-)

3.3/5 (with 1 vote)

Art historian Waldemar Januszczak uncovers the secret meanings hidden within some of the greatest paintings by Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cezanne and Seurat .

Art of the Western World(2024-)

5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

First broadcast on October 2, 1989, these 18 original 30-minute episodes provide a panorama of 2000 years of architecture, painting and sculpture, and studies the art masterpieces as reflections of the Western culture that produced them.

Art of Germany(2010)

1h per episode | Documentary
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

In an absorbing study, Andrew Graham-Dixon tells the story of a national art that conveys passion, precision, hope and renewal. He juxtaposes escapism with control and a deep affinity with nature against love for the machine. The fascinating story takes us from the towering cathedral of Cologne, the woodcuts of Albrecht Dürer and paintings of Grünewald to the gothic fairytale Neuschwanstein Castle, the Baltic landscapes of Caspar David Friedrich and the industrialisation lent expression of Adolph Menzel and Käthe Kollwitz. As the series progresses, it presents a rare focus on the cultural impact of Hitler's obsession with visual art, reveals how art became an arena for the Cold War and examines the redemptive work of the "visionary" Joseph Beuys – the most influential artist of modern times.

Big Sky, Big Dreams, Big Art: Made in the USA(2018-)

A history of American art with Waldemar Januszczak

The High Art of the Low Countries(2013)

52min per episode | Documentary

This 3 part series is presented by the British Art Critic, Andrew Graham-Dixon. He explores the Low Countries of the Netherlands and Belgium and how history has influenced the area's art, architecture and culture. Cloth was used in the area's first expression of art in the making of tapestries going back to the 14 th century. They were the No. 1 luxury item of the day. The Low Countries were well placed geographically for markets for their art.

The Art of Russia(2009)

4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

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Rococo: Travel, Pleasure, Madness(2014-)

1h per episode | Documentary

Rococo art is often dismissed as frivolous. But Waldemar Januszczak disagrees and in this three-part series he tries to bring Rococo art closer to us, and argues that the Rococo was the age in which the modern world was born.