Rome, 1508. Michel-Ange est chargé par le pape Jules II de peindre les fresques du plafond de la Chapelle Sixtine. Cédant tour à tour à la passion fébrile et au découragement, le peintre génial supporte mal le comportement despotique du pape. L'affrontement entre les deux grands hommes est inévitable...
Au XVe siècle, à Rome, César Borgia va tenter d'unifier le pays en utilisant sa soeur, dont il fait assassiner les maris et les amants.
Le 15 novembre 2017, le tableau « Salvator mundi », attribué à l'artiste italien Léonard de Vinci (1452-1519), a été vendu pour un montant sans précédent de 450 millions de dollars. Un examen des sales secrets du monde de l'art et l'histoire surprenante de la façon dont une œuvre d'art est capable de bouleverser les intérêts personnels et géopolitiques.
At the turn of the sixteenth century, Michelangelo (Mark Frankel), Raphael (Andrea Prodan), and Leonardo Da Vinci (John Glover) create their masterpieces, while dealing with religious persecution, political turmoil, and the discovery of America.
During Italian renaissance, young painter Raffaello Sanzio falls in love with Margherita, a maiden of the people, becomes her lover and lives with her. But this relationship arouses the jealousy of a beautiful aristocrat who secretly orders the kidnapping of the girl. Raffaello falls into a state of prostration and does everything he can to find Margherita...
The story of Benvenuto Cellinin (1500-1571), a soldier and one of the most important craftsmen and artists of Renaissance Italy whose life was marked by many achievements and adventures, but also crimes. There is also the mini-series version consisted of three 90 minutes episodes, broadcasted by RaiDue.
Margherita nicknamed Fornarina is Raphael's mistress. Beatrice, a noblewoman who is also in love with the famous painter tries to get her out of the way, by having her wrongly accused of the murder of a loan shark, whom she has in reality killed herself. Fornarina is sentenced to death. Will Raphael manage to prove her innocent?
New evidence suggests that many of Leonardo da Vinci's ideas can be traced to other scientists as far back as 1700 years. This film was used as the S16E5 episode of the PBS TV series Secrets of the Dead broadcast on 2017/04/05.
Janina Ramirez explores the BBC archives to create a TV history of Leonardo Da Vinci, discovering what lies beneath the Mona Lisa and even how he acquired his anatomical knowledge.
Acquis en juillet 1909 par le collectionneur d'art Wilhelm von Bode (1845-1929), directeur général des collections d'art prussiennes et directeur fondateur du Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum, aujourd'hui Bode-Museum, le buste de Flore, déesse romaine des fleurs, fait l'objet d'une controverse depuis plus d'un siècle.
First seen at La Monnaie in Brussels on 13 May 1998, this production of Monteverdi’s L’ORFEO seen through the eyes of Trisha Brown and René Jacobs has become an operatic classic in a few short years. This is doubtless because it offers a total symbiosis of music, text and movement – described by the critic of the Daily Telegraph of London as being ‘as close to the perfect dance opera as I have ever seen’. Or to quote Gilles Macassar in Télérama: ‘In the pit and onstage, the Brussels production has only one watchword: mobility, nimbleness, dexterity. The singers run, fly, whirl like dancers defying gravity. From the flies down to the footlights, the whole theatre is under a fantastic spell.’ For Christophe Vetter, on ConcertoNet: ‘This Orfeo can be seen again and again with immense pleasure. . . . René Jacobs’s conducting continues to arouse admiration for its precision, its stylistic rigour, its inexhaustible inventiveness and its feeling for the contrasts so vital to this repertoire.’
Palazzo Vecchio: a history of art and power. Directed by Piero Messina, through a clever movement of the narration between past and present, makes a real journey into the beauty of an ancient place that still retains its undisputed charm. (IMDB)
Résonances entre deux figures révolutionnaires et rivales de l’art de la Renaissance italienne, Andrea Mantegna et son beau-frère Giovanni Bellini.
Animated short film of Michelangelo set to Beethoven Symphony No. 5 - I. Allegro con brio.
English artist, writer, curator and teacher Sir Lawrence Gowing narrates a personal exploration of some of the great Florentine painter Masaccio's key works.