Andrew starts his journey at the Louvre where every year more than eight million people queue for hours to get a glance...

The story behind perhaps the most famous painting at the National Gallery, Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh.

The story behind JMW Turner's The Fighting Temeraire, a painting voted the nation's favourite.

Andrew Marr tells the harrowing and uplifting tale of Pablo Picasso's 'barbed-wire face-mask' of a painting, Weeping...

Claude Monet was the leading figure in Impressionism, and his Water Lilies cycle was his final gift to the world.

The story behind the most iconic painting of the English countryside ever created, John Constable's The Hay Wain.

Andrew discovers the amazing tale of the greatest painting of the Spanish Golden Age, Diego Velazquez's only nude, The...

Andrew heads to Amsterdam to unravel the extraordinary journey of Rembrandt van Rijn, a risky young artist with an...

Andrew follows John Everett Millais's Ophelia from its unlikely origins as part of a shocking artist rebellion, to...

A tale of a painting so magical that grown men have been said to faint in front of Botticelli's The Birth of Venus.