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Art history is more than a date beside a frame. Follow the questions, evidence and perspectives that make the world’s most fascinating artworks worth another look.
Explore the stories10 research dossiers
Explore each work through its historical question and a preliminary reading. Article dossiers are marked as drafts until references have been approved. Cover images are public-domain reproductions, credited on each story.
Hans Holbein the Younger
What changes when you stop looking at a painting straight on?
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Jan van Eyck
The smallest circle in the room changes how we read the entire scene.
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Rembrandt van Rijn
How do you understand a composition when parts of it are missing?
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Giovanni Bellini, Dosso Dossi and Titian
What does authorship mean when more than one master changes the same surface?
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Diego Velázquez
Where are you standing when the painter looks back?
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Hieronymus Bosch
What changes when a painted world opens in front of you?
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Georges Seurat
How does a painting change between a few centimeters and a few meters away?
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Francisco de Goya
How do you read a painting that was not originally made for a museum?
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Vincent van Gogh
Which parts of a painted sky come from looking and which from imagining?
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Leonardo da Vinci
How did a stolen painting become an international media event?
Explore the storyDocumented facts, attributions and disputed interpretations are treated differently.
Visual explanations reveal details without losing the context of the whole artwork.
Each story will combine a film, accessible transcript, extended article and credits after release review.