Figures of Thought

Covers a spiritual culture based upon reverence for the land and the spiritual dimension known as the Dreamtime.

A groundbreaking documentary on the internationally renowned painter, designated by ARTnews Magazine one of the world's top-ten living artists. This...

Painter Esteban Cabeza de Baca quietly defies the laws of space and time, blending past, present, and future in richly layered landscapes of the...

A critofilm analysing the pittorial style of the Early Renaissance painter Piero Della Francesca.

The term “critofilm” was coined by Ragghianti himself in 1948 to denote a new critical methodology, inaugurated precisely by...

Claude Monet was an avid horticulturist and arguably the most important painter of gardens in the history of art, but he was not alone. Great artists...

A critical analysis about Andrea del Castagno's "Last Supper", a Renaissance painting housed in the Church of Sant'Apollonia in Florence.

This critofilm illustrates the relationship between figurative art and numismatic decorations. The commentary lists the main iconographic themes,...

In 2005, Michael Palin set out to unlock the mysteries and find out about the background and life of Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershøi....

Henri Rousseau started to paint in Paris around 1880, at the age of 40. This self-taught artist was friendly with the poet Apollinaire, Robert...

A Renaissance masterpiece painted by Hans Holbein the Younger, “The Ambassadors” is teeming with details and hidden messages. By...

Documentary about the work and the unconventional approach of the painter Karel Appel. The film shows him flinging vast amounts of paint onto the...