All Seasons

Season 1

  • S01E01 Van Gogh's Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear

    • March 17, 2020
    • BBC Four

    Waldemar Januszczak studies Van Gogh's Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear and discovers within the painting a startling secret.

  • S01E02 Seurat's Les Poseuses

    • March 24, 2020
    • BBC Four

    Why did Seurat place his masterpiece, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, in the background of what is probably his least-known painting, Les Poseuses?

  • S01E03 Gauguin's Vision After the Sermon

    • March 31, 2020
    • BBC Four

    Waldemar Januszczak uncovers the symbols and mystery within Gauguin's epic religious painting about good and evil, temptation and desire.

  • S01E04 Cezanne's Card Players

    • April 7, 2020
    • BBC Four

    The Card Players is one of Cezanne’s best-known pictures, but it is also one of his most mysterious. Why did the so-called father of modern art paint two old men hunched over a game of cards? What is the picture trying to tell us? By exploring Cezanne’s puzzling religious beliefs and his passion for Mary Magdalene, the patron saint of Provence, Waldemar Januszczak uncovers the surprising secrets of a haunting masterpiece.

Season 2

  • S02E01 Mona Lisa

    • June 21, 2022
    • Sky Arts

    Waldemar Januszczak uncovers the secret meanings hidden within some of the world's most famous paintings, beginning with Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa.

  • S02E02 Mr and Mrs Andrews

    • June 21, 2022
    • Sky Arts

    Waldemar Januszczak uncovers the secret meanings hidden within Thomas Gainsborough's oil on canvas portrait Mr and Mrs Andrews.

  • S02E03 The Birth of Venus

    • June 28, 2022
    • Sky Arts

    Waldemar Januszczak takes a look at the The Birth of Venus, by Sandro Botticelli, hoping to uncover mysteries as he dives deeper into the meanings behind the painting.

  • S02E04 The Arnolfini Marriage

    • June 28, 2022
    • Sky Arts

    Waldemar Januszczak examines The Arnolfini Marriage, by Jan Van Eyck.

  • S02E05 Giorgione's The Tempest

    • July 5, 2022
    • Sky Arts

    Waldemar Januszczak examines Giorgione's The Tempest, an Italian Renaissance piece dating back to the 16th century.

  • S02E06 Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe

    • July 5, 2022
    • Sky Arts

    Waldemar Januszczak examines Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe, a large oil painting produced by Edouard Manet in the 1860s.

  • S02E07 Boy Bitten by a Lizard

    • July 12, 2022
    • Sky Arts

    Waldemar Januszczak examines Caravaggio's 16th-century artwork Boy Bitten by a Lizard, which exists in two versions and is shrouded in mystery.

  • S02E08 The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp

    • July 12, 2022
    • Sky Arts

    Waldemar Januszczak examines the secrets hidden in Rembrandt's masterpiece The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp, an oil painting from 1632.

Season 3

  • S03E01 Melencolia I, by Albrecht Durer

    • October 15, 2024
    • Sky Arts

    Created in 1514 and widely regarded as the greatest print ever made, Durer's Melencolia has defied all attempts to understand it

  • S03E02 Fountain by Marcel Duchamp

    • October 22, 2024
    • Sky Arts

    Waldemar Januszczak uncovers the secret meanings hidden within Marcel Duchamp's Fountain, a readymade sculpture consisting of a porcelain urinal signed R Mutt.

  • S03E03 The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch

    • October 29, 2024
    • Sky Arts

    Waldemar Januszczak uncovers the secret meanings hidden within The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch.

  • S03E04 The Polish Rider by Rembrandt

    • November 5, 2024
    • Sky Arts

    Waldemar Januszczak uncovers the secret meanings hidden within The Polish Rider by Rembrandt, which depicts a young man traveling on horseback through a murky landscape.