Smart Secrets of Great Paintings

At the end of the 19th century, Asnieres resembled a seaside resort. The cheering crowd that came to attend the regattas animated the banks of the Seine, and the rowing club was always full. When he painted his canvas, Georges Seurat understood that his current era was totally turned towards a fascinating and ruthless religion: progress. Determined that art should not remain left out of these drastic changes underway, he invented pointillism.

All Episodes - Season 1

Episode 1

The Moneylender and his Wife (1514) by Quentin Massys

Episode 2

The Artist's Studio (1855) by Gustave Courbet

Episode 3

Bathers at Asniers (1884) by Georges Seurat

Episode 4

Las Meninas (1665) by Diego Velazquez

Episode 5

The Wedding at Cana (1563) by Paolo Veronese

Episode 6

The Martyrdom of Saint Appolonia (1461) by Jean Fouquet

Episode 7

A Lady in Her Bath (1571) by Francois Clouet

Episode 8

Marie-Antoinette de Lorraine-Habsbourg, Queen of France and Her Children (1787) by Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun

Episode 9

Women of Algiers in Their Apartment (1834) by Eugène Delacroix

Episode 10

Colorful Life (1907) by Wassily Kandinsky

Episode 11

Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? 1897, Paul Gauguin

Episode 12

Temptations of St. Anthony, 1501, Hieronymus Bosch

Episode 13

Western Port in Frankfurt am Main, 1916, Ludwig Kirchner

Episode 14

Lady and the Unicorn, Circa 1500, Anonymous

Episode 15

The Primavera, 1482, Sandro Botticelli

Episode 16

The Astronomer (1668) by Johannes Vermeer

Episode 17

The Night Watch (1642) by Rembrandt Van Rijn

Episode 18

The Second of May 1808 (1814) by Francisco Goya

Episode 19

Women on a Café Terrace in the Evening (1877) by Edgar Degas

Episode 20

View of Warsaw From the Terrace of the Royal Palace (1773) by Bernardo Bellotto

Episode 21

Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette, 1876, Renoir

Episode 22

Pulcinella and Acrobats, 1797, Tiepolo

Episode 23

The Slave Ship, 1840, J.M. Turner

Episode 24

Men of the Docks, 1912, Bellows