Flandes, un lugar único en la historia del ar...

Tras años de lucha contra el capitalismo y el imperialismo, en 1919 Rosa Luxemburg auspició la revolución comunista en Alemania, cuyo fracaso le costó la vida. 

Hijo de Víctor Manuel II de Italia, Amadeo de Saboya fue elegido rey de España por las Cortes en 1870. La inestabilidad política del país lo llevó a abdicar al cabo de dos años. 

Swiss painter Henry Fuseli (1741-1825) was the man behind one of art history’s most famous spooky paintings: ‘The Nightmare.’ But how much do you actually know about this dream-fuelled Gothic image? Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare (1781). Oil on Canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Mic ...  Show more

The Census at Bethlehem is an oil-on-panel by the Flemish Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder, painted in 1566. Listen to this holiday short for a quick look into one of the greatest Christmas paintings ever created. 

In 1966, a Russian painter and archaeologist, Igor Savitsky, created a museum in the remote desert of Uzbekistan, where he stored tens of thousands of works of art that he had saved from Stalin's censors. The Savitsky museum, in Nukus, is now recognised as one of the greatest col ...  Show more

World-renowned street artist Banksy started spray-painting the walls of his home city of Bristol in the 1990s. It is widely believed that his first large mural was a piece called Mild, Mild West painted on a wall next to a record shop. Jim Paine owned the shop and has been tellin ...  Show more