Informative videos I found on YouTube about painters, their work or art movements that I find interesting.

format: documentary title [›› link]

➤ art history

• Eight Female Artists from Art History [››]
• The Art of Islam [››]
• Heaven & Hell in Art: The Birth of the Italian Renaissance [››]
• The Unchained Art of the Renaissance [››]
• The Birth of Baroque [››]
• Rococo: The Flamboyant Late Baroque Period [››]
• The ‘Crude’ Art Of Pleasure: Life In The Rococo Age [››]
• History's Greatest Impressionists [››]
• Dying Years of Impressionism [››]

➤ Artemisia Gentileschi

• Know the Artist: Artemisia Gentileschi [››]
• Artemisia Gentileschi in 8 Paintings [››]
• Artemisia Gentileschi: The Fortunes of a Female Painter in Baroque Italy [››]

➤ Caravaggio

• Know the Artist: Caravaggio [››]
• Caravaggio: His Life and Style in Three Paintings [››]
• Caravaggio's Masterpiece: Boy Bitten by a Lizard [››]

➤ Goya

• Know the Artist: Francisco de Goya [››]
• Understanding Modern Art: Francisco Goya [››]
• Goya: The Most Spanish of Artists [››]

➤ Gustav Klimt

• Know the Artist: Gustav Klimt [››]
• Life of an Artist: Gustav Klimt [››]
• Understanding Modern Art: Gustav Klimt [››]

➤ Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

• Know the Artist: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec [››]
• Life of an Artist: Toulouse-Lautrec [››]
• Toulouse-Lautrec: Between Degas and Picasso ››]

➤ Japanese art

• Know the Artist: Hokusai [››]
• Hokusai: The End of an Era [››]
• The Great Wave by Hokusai: Great Art Explained [››]
• Cultural History of Late Tokugawa Japan [››]
• Know the Artist: Yasumasa Morimura [››]

➤ Leonardo da Vinci

• Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci: Great Art Explained [››]
• The Secret of the Mona Lisa: Da Vinci's Most Famous Smile [››]
• What Did Leonardo da Vinci's “Last Supper” Really Look Like? [››]

➤ miscellaneous topics

• Art Looted from War Zones [››]
• Dwarfs in Art: The Creation of a Stereotype [››]
• Samburu's Body Art: Kenya's Ever Changing Canvas [››]
• Africa's Looted Art [››]
• The Lucrative Business of Art Theft [››]

➤ Rembrandt

• Rembrandt: Behind the Artist [››]
• Rembrandt van Rijn: The Real Rembrandt [››]
• The Many Faces of Rembrandt [››]
• Rembrandt's Gruesome Paintings [››]
• Rembrandt: The Power of His Self Portraits [››]
• Rembrandt's “A Woman Bathing in a Stream” in 10 Minutes [››]

➤ Salvador Dalí

• Salvador Dali: Surrealism's Most Eccentric Man [››]
• Dali's Secret Masterpiece: The Vision of Hell [››]

➤ Vincent van Gogh

• Vincent van Gogh: The Color and Vitality of His Works [››]
• Van Gogh: Paintings [››]
• Van Gogh: Techniques and Methods [››]
• Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night: Great Art Explained [››]
• Vincent van Gogh's Troubled Youth [››]
• Van Gogh in Love [››]
• The Mystery of the Fake Van Goghs [››]

➤ various artists

• ‘Know the Artist’ series
  • Dante Gabriel Rossetti [››]
  • Edvard Munch [››]
  • Egon Schiele [››]
  • El Greco [››]
  • Gertrude Abercrombie [››]
  • Johannes Vermeer [››]
  • Sandro Botticelli [››]
  • Tamara de Lempicka [››]
• Murillo: The Self Portraits [››]
• Tom Thompson: The Canadian Artistic Superstar Who Vanished Mysteriously [››]