The Secret Life of Masterpieces

From Lascaux to Frida Kahlo, what if the greatest masterpieces of painting
revealed their secrets to us?

Thanks to Vincent Brocvielle, you'll never see them the same way again!

- What do the colorful figures adorning Egyptian tombs reveal?
- How can we decipher the enigmatic motifs of medieval frescoes?
- What obsessions did Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa stem from?
- What was Artemisia Gentileschi hiding to portray such violence in her works?
- What does Hokusai's Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji series reveal about him?
- What were the secret motivations of Courbet, Manet, or Van Gogh?
- Why did Picasso suddenly change his technique with Les Demoiselles d’Avignon?
- What wounds do Frida Kahlo's paintings reveal?

Who is truly behind the greatest masterpieces of art? Successive restorations, intimate correspondence, and journals have brought forth details that continuously teach us more about these creations.

For these paintings hold many surprises. They reveal the artists' secret passions, fears, and obsessions. It is by understanding what drives them—their dreams, their fears, their loves—that their greatest canvases begin to tell us another story, their secret life.