Art encounters

A young boy, Mario Ravelli, develops a unique relationship with the great painter and inventor, Leonardo da Vinci, particularly because Mario is a time traveler from the year 2523 A.D.

After a beggar girl rescues the drunken, severely deformed French painter Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, he introduces her to his studio, the nightlife of Montmartre, and the cancan dancers at the Moulin Rouge club.

During the Great Depression, fifteen-year-old Parker finds himself homeless and traveling across New Mexico's desert, when a shepherd leads him to the artist Georgia O'Keeffe who teaches him photography and gives him a new perspective on life.

In 1940, after traveling from their country village to Mexico City to find their mother, fourteen-year-old Maria and her younger brother Victor are befriended by the artist Frida Kahlo and the talking animals and household objects that inhabit her home.

Jean, a young French soldier, finds salvation through his pursuit of art and the love of a woman.

Hired to paint a family portrait of four beautiful but mysterious daughters in late nineteenth-century Paris, artist John Singer Sargent enters a world populated by an emotionally unstable mother, a strange spirit, and a malevolent doll.

In 1433, fourteen-year-old Giovanna Cenami falls in love with a mysterious stranger employed by Flemish painter Jan van Eyck, but when she defies her father, refuses to marry a wealthy family friend, and elopes with her love, herreputation, her family's honor, and her very life are at stake.

When Tony gets in trouble near his parents' restaurant in the Bronx, his parents send him to live with and work for his uncle in Shanghai for the summer. There he meets and takes lessons from the Chinese painter Zhu Qizhan.