The Best Renaissance Masters Documentaries

Art, Music & Design - 28 free documentaries about renaissance masters.

Start with Decoding da Vinci (54 min, NOVA PBS Official), then The Birth of Venus by Botticelli: Great Art Explained: (19 min, Great Art Explained). All 28 documentaries here are free to watch from their makers' official uploads. To read deeper, the top-rated book on renaissance masters is Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari.

• Decoding da Vinci (54 min, NOVA PBS Official)
• The Birth of Venus by Botticelli: Great Art Explained: (19 min, Great Art Explained)
• The Da Vinci Code - Has the mystery been solved? (52 min, DW Documentary)
• Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights (Full Length): Great Art Explained (51 min, Great Art Explained)
• The School of Athens by Raphael: Great Art Explained (24 min, Great Art Explained)
• Great Art Explained: The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci (36 min, Great Art Explained)
• 14th-century Siena: The art that shaped the future | National Gallery (20 min, The National Gallery)
• Raiders of the Lost Art | Episode 4 | Leonardo & the Mona Lisa (44 min, Free Documentary - History)
• Mona Lisa (Full Length): Great Art Explained (33 min, Great Art Explained)
• Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights (Part One): Great Art Explained (18 min, Great Art Explained)
• The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan Van Eyck: Great Art Explained (16 min, Great Art Explained)
• Holbein's extraordinary 'Ambassadors' | National Gallery (38 min, The National Gallery)
• Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights (Part Three): Great Art Explained (17 min, Great Art Explained)
• Michelangelo's David: Great Art Explained (14 min, Great Art Explained)
• Hans Holbein's 'Christina of Denmark' (33 min, The National Gallery)
• Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights (Part Two): Great Art Explained (15 min, Great Art Explained)
• Are these paintings Medici propaganda? | Gold and silver restoration | National Gallery (14 min, The National Gallery)
• Curator's Introduction | The Credit Suisse Exhibition: Raphael | National Gallery (72 min, The National Gallery)
• Curator's Introduction | The Credit Suisse Exhibition: Dürer's Journeys | National Gallery (63 min, The National Gallery)
• Curator's Introduction to 'The Carracci Cartoons: Myths in the Making' | National Gallery (55 min, The National Gallery)
• Titian: Painting the myth of Bacchus and Ariadne | National Gallery (21 min, The National Gallery)
• BSL Interpretation: Curator's Introduction to 'The Carracci Cartoons' | National Gallery (55 min, The National Gallery)
• Unexpected Views: Ed Fornieles on Titian's 'Bacchus and Ariadne’ | National Gallery (27 min, The National Gallery)
• Curator's Introduction | Reflections: Van Eyck and the Pre-Raphaelites | National Gallery (44 min, The National Gallery)
• BSL interpretation: Curator's Introduction (72 min, The National Gallery)
• Unexpected Views: Chantal Joffe on Titian’s ‘Diana and Callisto’ | National Gallery (30 min, The National Gallery)
• Patricia Rubin on Raphael’s ‘Madonna della Seggiola’ | Linbury Lecture | National Gallery (92 min, The National Gallery)
• Unexpected Views: Harold Offeh on Botticelli's Venus and Mars | National Gallery (31 min, The National Gallery)

Top-Rated Books About Renaissance Masters

1. Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari - View on Amazon
2. Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson (4/5) - View on Amazon
3. Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling by Ross King - View on Amazon
4. The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone (4.1/5) - View on Amazon