italian art
13 movies and shows
Unprovoked: A Creative Process
Fri, 24 Sep 2021
Artist Taylor Denise sets out to make her first painting, which also happens to be her largest work to-date. As she embarks on this creative process of making shit because it looks cool, she's met with comradery, debauchery, and people's brains interrupting art whatever way they want to-ery.
Cellini: A Violent Life
Wed, 02 May 1990
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.
Donatello: Renaissance Genius
Sun, 04 Sep 2022
Portrait of the Italian sculptor Donatello (1386-1466), a precursor of the High Renaissance who considerably influenced sculptural art with his innovative way of conceiving space. Donatello is already a legend in his own lifetime. The sculptor is the forefather of the High Renaissance and pioneer for artists such as Raphael or Michelangelo. His bronze sculpture of the "David" or the "Pazzi Madonna" in marble are icons of art history and testify to his sculptural power of renewal.
Certified Copy
Wed, 19 May 2010
In Tuscany to promote his latest book, a middle-aged English writer meets a French woman who leads him to the village of Lucignano.
The Wedding at Cana
Thu, 01 Jan 2009
A short film by Peter Greenaway. It depicts the painting The Wedding Feast at Cana by Paolo Veronese, through mixed media and shows different perspectives.
Leonardo Da Vinci The Tragic Pursuit of Perfection
Wed, 15 Apr 1953
A portrait of the artist as a "sublime demon with the archangel's face", with an innovative musique concrète soundtrack.
Raffaello. Il mito e la modernità
Fri, 20 Mar 2020
The Prado Museum: A Collection of Wonders
Mon, 15 Apr 2019
Actor Jeremy Irons embarks on an epic journey through the halls of the Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain, two hundred years after its inauguration, along corridors where thousands of masterpieces of all time tell the lives of rulers and common people, and tales about times of war and madness and times of peace and happiness; because, as Goya said, imagination, the mother of the arts, produces impossible monsters, but also unspeakable wonders.
Mina in Barilla commercials
Sun, 02 Dec 2001
Music and images that have made advertising history in Italy. This is a beautiful collection containing the commercials that Mina made for Barilla from 1965 to 1970, featuring the work of the greatest Italian directors, costume designers and make-up artists. This series of commercials bears the signature of set designer and costume designer (and, for the occasion, also director) Piero Gherardi, who sets the Barilla commercials in unusual and evocative locations and creates very special and imaginative outfits for Mina.
The Genius of Leonardo Da Vinci
Mon, 30 Apr 2018
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.
The Films of Bruno Mattei
Sat, 26 Nov 2016
A look into the films and career of cult film director Bruno Mattei.
Devotion
Sat, 18 Jul 2020
Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana draw on the suggestions of Sicilian popular culture and the great iconic heritage of Italian Neorealist cinema, reinventing these twin sources of inspiration in a perpetually renewed code of endless stylistic contamination.