Raiders of the Lost Art

How and why The Scream has been stolen multiple times.

Painted during Vienna’s cultural heyday, Gustav Klimt’s “Portrait of Adele” was confiscated by the Nazis during WWII.

These works that span Rembrandt’s entire adult life have been scattered across the globe and had a life and history all their own.

It took nearly three centuries for el Greco’s paintings to be truly appreciated. no artist has ever been more ahead of his time.

Leonardo Da Vinci is believed by many to have been the most talented individual who ever lived, secrets of his work are still being unrearthed.

Jan van Eyck left behind a remarkable legacy of works, including the spectacular Ghent altarpiece, but very little evidence of who he exactly was.

Capturing the changing nature of light was the lifelong obsession of Claude Monet, the father of impressionism.

Johannes Vermeer was all but forgotten for centuries and this iconic work lay dormant, overlooked before it was rediscovered.

Paul Cezanne inspired the most lauded artists of the 20th century, but he struggled for years to achieve anywhere near the levels of success.

Joseph Mallord William turner was hailed as a prodigy from an early age and he went on to have a remarkably successful, albeit controversial, painting career.

Raphael forms the trinity of great masters of the Italian high renaissance… alongside Leonardo and Michelangelo.