In a new series Waldemar Januszczak (pictured) sets out to uncover the secret meanings hidden in four famous paintings by Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cezanne and Seurat. Everyone knows the pictures. They are ...

Vincent Van Gogh’s painting Self-portrait with Bandaged Ear is frequently taken to be the pitiable proof of the artist’s hopeless derangement, another step along the road to his eventual suicide by ...

Van Gogh's Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear is one of his most famous works of art. However, hidden inside the painting is a startling secret, a steamy tale of geishas, brothels, bullfights, broken ...

Januszczak was born in Basingstoke, Hampshire, to Polish refugees who had arrived in England after the Second World War. After studying history of art at the University of Manchester, Januszczak ...

Have we got the Renaissance wrong? Waldemar Januszczak thinks so, and in this four-part series for BBC Four he challenges the traditional view of art’s most important epoch. According to Giorgio ...

Art critic Waldemar Januszczak delves into the heart of Mannerism, as he explores the development of the art style, examines its characteristics, and questions what it achieved.

That was just one of the unexpected facts in Waldemar Januszczak’s three-part foray into the special nature, as he sees it, of American art: as in his recent work, WJ the presenter doubled as WJ the ...

Episode two: Seurat. Hanging in the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, Seurat’s Les Poseuses is a beautiful but puzzling picture. It shows three nudes in the artist’s studio, but also included in the ...

In the third episode Waldemar will focus on Venice, and its sensuous impact on art history. Venice was unlike anywhere else - a shimmering meeting point between east and west. By looking at the ...