Seductive and dangerous, the figure of the femme fatale in art was completely reinvented in the 20th century.

Many artists and creative people feel they don't deserve their success. Are we all just faking it until we make it? 

150 years after his birth, social media has brought Austro-Hungarian poet Rainer Maria Rilke to a new generation of readers.

How can architects build spaces where people coexist peacefully and feel good? This episode focuses on schools.

How can we build spaces that provide shelter and dignity for the most vulnerable in society?

New prisons in Switzerland and Germany provided light, welcoming spaces which aide the rehabilitation process.

Probably inspired by the Mona Lisa, the great renaissance artist Raphael painted this portrait of a young woman, but why is she holding a mythical beast in her hands?

With all the religious wars, the 17th century was a tense time in Europe. And in art one theme caught everyone’s imagination: the Virgin Mary.

Christian philosophy is based on two abstract and complex concepts, but art can simplify them: Paradise, where everything was good and is lost, and Hell, which is so scary that no one wants to go there. And in between there is…us!

The painter Artemisia Gentileschi was rediscovered in the 1970s by pioneers of gender studies in art. A simple question arose: why are so few great masters women?