Waldemar Januszczak studies Van Gogh's Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear and discovers within the painting a startling secret.
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?
Waldemar Januszczak uncovers the symbols and mystery within Gauguin's epic religious painting about good and evil, temptation and desire.
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.
Waldemar Januszczak uncovers the secret meanings hidden within some of the world's most famous paintings, beginning with Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa.
Waldemar Januszczak uncovers the secret meanings hidden within Thomas Gainsborough's oil on canvas portrait Mr and Mrs Andrews.
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.
Waldemar Januszczak examines The Arnolfini Marriage, by Jan Van Eyck.
Waldemar Januszczak examines Giorgione's The Tempest, an Italian Renaissance piece dating back to the 16th century.
Waldemar Januszczak examines Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe, a large oil painting produced by Edouard Manet in the 1860s.
Waldemar Januszczak examines Caravaggio's 16th-century artwork Boy Bitten by a Lizard, which exists in two versions and is shrouded in mystery.
Waldemar Januszczak examines the secrets hidden in Rembrandt's masterpiece The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp, an oil painting from 1632.
Created in 1514 and widely regarded as the greatest print ever made, Durer's Melencolia has defied all attempts to understand it
Waldemar Januszczak uncovers the secret meanings hidden within Marcel Duchamp's Fountain, a readymade sculpture consisting of a porcelain urinal signed R Mutt.
Waldemar Januszczak uncovers the secret meanings hidden within The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch.
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.
