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After 428 years, sacred relic of St Louis, Duke of Mantua, transferred with solemn ceremony to Rome.
Architecture and visual display were used by Renaissance princes across Europe to express their power, virtue, wealth and civilisation. In Mantua, the Gonzaga family grew wealthy by hiring themselves as...
Nowhere fired Shakespeare’s Imagination quite like Italy. But as Francesco Da Mosto argues in this new two part series, Italian cities meant far more to our greatest author than just a sunlit setting....
Examines ‘The Triumph of Caesar’, a series of nine canvases painted in the late 15th century by Andrea Mantegna. They were painted for the Gonzaga family in Mantua and are now in the British Royal...
Examines the influence of humanism in painting, sculpture and architecture. In 9 sections: 1) Signs of Change: compares the frescoes of Benozzo Gozzoli in the chapel of the Medici Palace, Florence, with...
An account partly descriptive, partly historical account of the eight extant canvases of The Triumph of Caesar which Andrea Mantegna was commissioned to paint in 1484 by Ludovico II, Marquis of Mantua.
Feature film which considers what might have happened had Romeo and Juliet made it to Mantua safely: Romeo would need a job and a pregnant Juliet would hate finding out that Romeo wasn’t so romantic after...
Radio version of the Davenant/Dryden/Shadwell adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest for which Henry Purcell wrote the music in 1695. With Robert Harris as Prospero. Constant Lambert conducts the Covent...
Radio play written by Henry Reed and produced for broadcasting by Douglas Cleverdon. Set in Italy in 1593, this dramatic speculation sends William Shakespeare (Marius Goring) to Ferrara, Verona, Padua,...
Comedy short which imagines what might have happened if Romeo and Juliet had feigned their deaths to gain peace and quiet.`A re-staging of the final scene in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet kicks off our...
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