In this episode of The Secret History of Art, Noah Charney takes you on a guided tour of Pablo Picasso’s masterpiece, “Guernica,” which hangs in the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid. The painting’s devastating abstraction of the horrors of war has spoken to generations, and is so powerful that it inspired an art lover to an atrocious act of vandalism against it.
THE SECRET HISTORY OF ART takes you on a series of private guided tours of the world's greatest artworks. Best-selling author and professor of art history Noah Charney presents the history, symbolism, and importance of each work. The Secret History of Art is a series of lessons in miniature on great works of art around the world. By spending just a few minutes per masterpiece, you can learn the mysteries, stories, and secrets of some of civilization’s greatest treasures.