Rick Steves' Art of Europe

Rick Steves does an excellent job showing and explaining, on location, the enormously wide-ranging art and architecture all across Europe from pre-historic times through the 20th century. The series is well organized and well scripted, and Rick effortlessly ties in and explains the historical background and setting of each style and era of art.

So even if you are fairly well versed in art and art history, you will probably get a welcome and intriguing history lesson with this series, leading to several aha moments as the events described tie together some vague old gaps or questions in your subconscious.

With this series I think Rick has proved himself an excellent challenger to British documentary presenters such as Simon Schama and Michael Wood. I highly recommend checking it out, whether via the PBS website or app, Roku TV, or whichever app or service at your disposal streams PBS documentaries.