Italian Art Movies

In Tuscany to promote his latest book, a middle-aged English writer meets a French woman who leads him to the village of Lucignano.

A portrait of the artist as a "sublime demon with the archangel's face", with an innovative musique concrète soundtrack.

Janina Ramirez explores the BBC archives to create a TV history of Leonardo Da Vinci, discovering what lies beneath the Mona Lisa and even how he acqu...

The story of Benvenuto Cellinin (1500-1571),a soldier and one of the most important craftsmen and artists of Renaissance Italy whose life was marked...

A businessman swims away from time and reality...

Artist Taylor Denise sets out to make her first painting, which also happens to be her largest work to-date. As she embarks on this creative process o...

A short film by Peter Greenaway. It depicts the painting The Wedding Feast at Cana by Paolo Veronese, through mixed media and shows different perspect...

Actor Jeremy Irons embarks on an epic journey through the halls of the Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain, two hundred years after its inauguration, along...

A look into the films and career of cult film director Bruno Mattei.