Carlos Pinheiro The secrets of Girl with a Pearl Earring BBC CultureA new research project at the Mauritshuis in The Hague hopes to unlock some of the mysteries that surround Vermeer’s masterpiece. Watch the video to find out more. Very little is known about the 17th Dutch
Carlos Pinheiro Can art change the world? BBC Culture - By Annie Godfrey LarmonCan obstruction, or outright destruction, be as powerful as the act of creation? Annie Godfrey Larmon takes a look. Popular history has it that the word sabotage, from the French sabot, or wooden shoe,
Carlos Pinheiro Why The Thinker should be called The Mourner BBC Culture - By Alastair SookeGrief is ubiquitous in art – one curator even has suggested The Thinker should be called The Mourner. Alastair Sooke takes a look at its history. She looks like she is sleeping, her beautiful features
Carlos Pinheiro Ribera: Was this the vision of a sadist? BBC Culture - By Kelly GrovierAccording to some, Jusepe de Ribera enjoyed painting torture. A new exhibition seeks to challenge that view of the 17th-Century artist, writes Kelly Grovier. No artist has ever managed to put the pain
Carlos Pinheiro Bruegel’s Two Monkeys: One of art’s most enduring puzzles? BBC Culture - By Kelly GrovierPieter Bruegel the Elder transformed observations of daily existence into complex visual parables. As a new exhibition of his work opens in Vienna, Kelly Grovier explores the elusive symbolism of one the
Carlos Pinheiro Paula Rego: Unsettling images twisted from Disney BBC Culture - By Kelly GrovierPaula Rego reinvents fairy tales with eerie scenes. As a new exhibition of her work opens in Paris, Kelly Grovier looks at how the Portuguese artist balances myth and mortality. Some great works of art
Carlos Pinheiro Eight odd details hidden in masterpieces BBC Culture - By Kelly GrovierGreat works of art contain touches of strangeness that, once seen, unlock deeper meaning. Kelly Grovier reveals eight examples from paintings including The Scream and The Kiss. What do the greatest paintings
Carlos Pinheiro Is the Renaissance nude religious or erotic? BBC Culture - By Cath PoundA new exhibition explores how the naked form revolutionised painting and sculpture. Cath Pound looks at shifting attitudes and what they reveal about society and sexuality. Renaissance artists transformed
Carlos Pinheiro Why Rembrandt's The Night Watch is still a mystery BBC Culture - By Fisun GünerThe Dutch master’s famous painting has inspired theories that suggest it led to his downfall. Fisun Güner takes a closer look. When Rembrandt van Rijn died aged 63 in 1669, he was buried in an unmarked
Carlos Pinheiro Virgin of the Rocks: A subversive message hidden by Da Vinci BBC Culture - By Kelly GrovierA palm tree in an Alpine scene prompts Kelly Grovier to follow a trail of clues that unlock a 15th-Century mystery – transforming Da Vinci masterpieces into ruminations on the Earth’s geological evolution.
Carlos Pinheiro The hidden figures revealed by art BBC Culture - By Cath PoundThe diverse individuals seen in artworks of the 19th Century are finally being fully recognised. Cath Pound explores how their depiction sheds new light on the era. Édouard Manet’s ground-breaking Olympia
Carlos Pinheiro Leonardo da Vinci’s lost masterpieces BBC Culture - By Cath PoundThe Renaissance man was as much a scientist as an artist. On the 500th anniversary of his death, Cath Pound explores how Leonardo da Vinci’s drawings reveal his genius. Leonardo da Vinci is considered
Carlos Pinheiro The painter who captured America BBC Culture - By Holly WilliamsFamous for her flower close-ups, it’s Georgia O’Keeffe’s paintings of the US landscape that reveal the most about her. Holly Williams pays the artist’s studio a visit to find out why. To look at a Georgia
Carlos Pinheiro The mystery of Van Gogh’s madness BBC Culture - By Alastair SookeOn a summer’s day in 1890, Vincent van Gogh shot himself in a field outside Paris. What does the painting he worked on that morning tell us about his mental state? On 27 July 1890, Vincent van Gogh walked
Carlos Pinheiro Andy Warhol’s 10 most memorable quotes BBC Culture - By Rebecca Laurence On what would have been the artist's 88th birthday, BBC Culture selects some of his extraordinary thoughts on art, sex, fame and television.
Carlos Pinheiro The mysterious muse of Gustav Klimt BBC Culture - By Kimberly BradleyAdele Bloch-Bauer was an avid art patron at the centre of Vienna’s cultural life. And when she sat for a portrait by Gustav Klimt, she was transformed into an icon, writes Kimberly Bradley. Pleading… challenging?
Carlos Pinheiro Why Caravaggio was as shocking as his paintings BBC Culture - By Alastair SookeCaravaggio’s revolutionary style influenced everyone from modern photographers to Scorsese – but his life was just as provocative as his paintings, writes Alastair Sooke. Is any artist’s biography more
Carlos Pinheiro ‘It was an ancient form of sex tourism’ BBC Culture - By Andrea WatsonMen of antiquity worshipped Aphrodite by having sex with her temple maids at Paphos on Cyprus. Now the site is receiving new recognition, writes Andrea Watson. In 2017, Paphos will enjoy the title of Capital
Carlos Pinheiro Seven surprising hidden meanings in art BBC Culture - By Kelly GrovierMysterious details in artworks continue to provoke debate about coded messages centuries after they were made. Kelly Grovier explores the best. The devil, they say, is in the detail. So too is our fascination
Carlos Pinheiro The moment that changed Picasso BBC Culture - By Alastair SookeA short trip to an ancient village was the catalyst for a profound shift in Picasso’s work – but it is often overlooked. Alastair Sooke finds out more. One day in June 1906, Pablo Picasso arrived in the
Carlos Pinheiro How to discover a masterpiece BBC Culture - By Alastair SookeA painting cheaply acquired is actually from the Flemish master Brueghel. The revelation involved detective work, and the restoration human saliva, writes Alastair Sooke. For art dealers, the holy grail
Carlos Pinheiro The story of a painting that fought fascism BBC Culture - By Fiona MacdonaldOpening during the Spanish Civil War, the 1937 Paris Exhibition allowed artists to speak out against brutality. Fiona Macdonald looks at a moment when paintings became propaganda. On 26 April 1937, Nazi
Carlos Pinheiro Why the circus fascinated modern artists BBC Culture - By Alastair SookePainters from Seurat to Matisse were drawn to the circus – not just for its drama and colour, but for the melancholy and alienation it could also represent, writes Alastair Sooke. In 1888, a radical young
Carlos Pinheiro The urinal that changed how we think BBC Culture - By Kelly GrovierOne hundred years ago this month, Marcel Duchamp’s controversial Fountain made its debut. It would change art forever, writes Kelly Grovier. In April 1917, everything changed. At least, that is, in the
Carlos Pinheiro The cheese that inspired Dalí BBC Culture - By Cath PoundThe beloved food is the star of a new exhibition of still lifes. Cath Pound extolls the virtues of cheese in art history, from the Dutch Masters to the present day. “Cheese,” as the US intellectual Clifton
Carlos Pinheiro Can you separate the artist from the art? BBC Culture - By Fisun GünerA museum acknowledges an artist it features was a serial sexual abuser – it’s very rare for the art world to put work in this context, writes Fisun Güner. Just how true is the following statement: an work
Carlos Pinheiro How a small African figurine changed art BBC Culture - By Fisun GünerFolk art from Africa and the Pacific changed the modern world by pushing Western artists to be more confrontational, writes Fisun Güner. A small seated figurine from the Vili people of what is now the
Carlos Pinheiro The artworks that caused a scandal BBC Culture - By Kelly GrovierAs two major museums have scrapped plans to show controversial pieces this month, Kelly Grovier takes a look at the history of censorship in the art world. Is anything more deserving of censorship than
Carlos Pinheiro Magritte and the subversive power of his pipe BBC Culture - By Cath PoundSome think that this mysterious Magritte painting is the beginning of modern art. It inspires a lot more questions than you might think, writes Cath Pound. René Magritte’s The Treachery of Images (This
