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With the patronage of the Medici family, Botticelli created a series of famous illustrations for Dante’s Divine Comedy. Free and unconventional in his imagery, Botticelli reveals the extent of his genius...
More than any other medium, drawings give a direct insight into how Italian Renaissance artists worked. Featuring outstanding examples from two major collections - the Uffizi in Florence and the British...
Didier Baussy-Oulianoff’s film takes the viewer to the places where the Renaissance artist devised his artworks and painted for the most influential courts. Contemporaries of Titian’s, such as Vasari and...
Derek Jarman’s freely dramatised portrait of the controversial seventeenth-century Italian artist Michelangelo da Caravaggio is a powerful meditation on sexuality, criminality and art. The film centres on...
An exploration the ‘Codex Leicester’, Leonardo da Vinci’s notebook, which allows the user to read the mirror writing in English or Italian; tour artworks and documents, including all Leonardo’s known...
Focuses on the creative processes that led to the frescoes of the Farnese Gallery, executed between 1997 and 1600 by Annibale and Agostino Carracci and filmed on location in the Farnese Palcace in Rome. Also...
Looks at influences on the youthful Michelangelo, showing works by Donatello, Verrocchio and Bertoldo. Also analyses the changes in Michelangelo’s art brought about by his first visit to Rome in 1496....
Records the work of restoration of Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and Saint John the Baptist’, undertaken by Eric Harding following serious damage by gunshot in 1987. In doing...
Two films about sculptor Alberto Giacometti. QU’EST-CE QU’UNE TÊTE (WHAT IS A HEAD?) by Michel Van Zele explores Giacometti’s various sources of inspiration and his unique conception of the portrait,...
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