Michelangelo Merisi left his birth town of Caravaggio in the north of Italy to study as an apprentice in nearby Milan. In 1593 he moved to Rome, impatient to use his talents on the biggest stage ...

Simon Schama explores the final works of Rembrandt van Rijn prior to the artist’s death in 1669. Historian Simon Schama explores the final works of Rembrandt van Rijn in the years leading up to the ...

Schama is University Professor Art and Art History at Columbia University, a contributing editor at The Financial Times, and the author of 16 books, most recently The Story of the Jews: Belonging, and ...

A new exhibition about birds ranges from old masters paintings to contemporary art. The show is “a mad sprawl of instincts and intuitions,” says its curator, Simon Schama. “The Goldfinch” by Carel ...

In this episode, Simon explores how Romantic artists created the secular icons of the modern democratic age, whose power continues to inspire the passions of revolt to this day. Simon explores how the ...