The Woman in Gold by Gustav Klimt

During the Vietnam War, North Vietnamese VietCong guerrillas built a vast network of tunnels in the south of the country as part of the insurgency against the South Vietnamese government and their American allies. The tunnel network was a key base and shelter for the North Vietna ...  عرض المزيد

The disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, in Ukraine, on 26 April 1986, was the world’s worst nuclear accident. The explosion in reactor four caused radioactive parts to be spread over the nearby area. Hundreds of thousands of people were involved in the decontamination ...  عرض المزيد

Gustave Klimt, peintre symboliste, figure majeure de l’Art Nouveau. Il continue aujourd’hui encore à décorer les murs des salons, les tasses et les parapluies. Gustave Klimt, le peintre en or dont les chefs d’œuvres sont les plus reproduis au monde. "Le Baiser", toile gigantes ...  عرض المزيد

Personnalités des plus fascinantes et des plus anticonformistes de la Vienne des années 1900. Emilie Flöge, créatrice de mode et muse secrète de Klimt. Dans les années 1890, Gustav Klimt est subjugué par l'élégance d'Emilie Flöge. Avec sa silhouette longiligne, son teint de porce ...  عرض المزيد

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the influential painters at the heart of the French Impressionist movement: Berthe Morisot (1841-1895). The men in her circle could freely paint in busy bars and public spaces, while Morisot captured the domestic world and found new, daring ...  عرض المزيد

As the Nazi war machine rampaged across Europe it did not just take territory and resources from its conquests but also many thousands of pieces of art and other antiquities. Stolen from both galleries and individual victims of Nazi crimes allied troops discovered hidden cache ...