Each episode springs from a specific work of art chosen from a major museum's painting or sculpture collection, with a view toward developing a collaborative relationship. From this single image, an original story will unfold using the particular piece's historical setting. While the focal point will be an emotionally riveting narrative, every nuance will be true to the time and each incident will be grounded in the events of that period.

Websites will also be set up with Study Guides and links in order to open the project up to schools for the discovery of each story-detail's place in the artwork's era in history.

Following the critically acclaimed format of the film Ignotus, using award-winning writers & directors and images from ancient to modern times, each enthralling and surprising tale will lead the viewer into taking a fresh look at the art which surrounds us all.