Waldemar Januzczak

Documentary about the post-Impressionist painter (366weirdmovies)

Art writer Waldemar Januszczak explores the revolutionary achievements of the Impressionists. (bbc.co.uk)

Jeremy Paxman hosts this trivia quiz show where colleges from around the UK compete against each other. (imdb)

Three-part documentary series about Vincent van Gogh.

These days, nobody takes Rubens seriously. His vast and grandiose canvases, stuffed with wobbly mounds of female flesh, have little appeal for the modern gym-subscriber. Everything is too big: the epic dramas, the fantastical celestial scenery, the immense canvases. In the eyes of British host Waldemar Januszczak, Rubens has been tragically reduced by modern tastes and completely misunderstood.

A survey of Hans Holbein's career from his beginnings as a religious painter to his work for Henry VIII and beyond. The program also includes a close analysis of "The Ambassadors"

In this three-part documentary series Waldemar Januszczak discovers paintings, sculptures and architecture of the Baroque period. Starting from the square of Saint Peter's Basilica in Italy to St Paul's Cathedral in England.

Christianity slowly emerged from being a persecuted minority to the state religion of the Roman Empire. This episode is a history of the ways believers grappled with a way to depict Jesus. Simple symbolic meaning developed into splendid art and churches.

Art sleuth Waldemar Januszczak uncovers the secret meanings hidden within some of the greatest paintings by Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cezanne and Seurat. (imdb)

Shaun Greenhalgh was once a prolific forger, who could make anything using techniques from the past. He has now teamed up with Oxford historian, Dr Janina Ramirez to keep alive the secrets of the ancients.

All saints in art are inventions, but no saint in art has been invented quite as furiously as Mary Magdalene. The loose woman, wild haired and sexy, draped in her iconic scarlet garb, who, as the archetypal penitent, set the moral benchmark for which women were to aspire. Delving into the great art of the last 1000 years, Waldemar explores the evolution of the identity of this scarlet woman and reveal what this all really says about the artists whom she bewitched. (ZCZFilms.com)