Art week on TV, from Beato Angelico to the secret Renaissance – Arte.it

Beato Angelico protagonist on Sky Arte
The painter monk who managed to transform spirituality into images of pure harmony brings his timeless masterpieces to light on TV.
It happens on Sky Arte on Thursday, November 13 at 9:15 PM during the documentary Fra Angelico. Painter of lightthe first showing of Sky Original, takes viewers to the suggestions of the major exhibition set up in Florence between Palazzo Strozzi and the San Marco Museum. The inventor of the Renaissance in painting will be at the center of a fascinating journey from his origins in Mugello to the Florentine and Roman periods, with the interventions of the curators of the exhibition that brings together more than 140 works from the most prestigious museums in the world.
Tuesday, November 11 at 12:15 PM we will go back in time two thousand years through a cinematic journey between art and mystery to discover the most famous archaeological site in the world: Pompeii. Isabella Rossellini will act as a guide in the documentary entitled Pompeii. Eros and Myth. With four million visitors a year, this archaeological site, one of the most famous in the world, has been animated by violent passions, power plays and loving bonds over the centuries. The documentary exposes the myths and characters that helped immortalize this site on UNESCO’s list of World Heritage Sites. From the love story between Bacchus and Ariadne in the famous Villa of the Mysteries to the ambiguous relationship between Leda and the Swan, from the gladiator fights to Poppea Sabina’s desperate search for immortality: the docufilm also analyzes the lesser-known and more secret sides of the city.
Beato Angelico, exhibition view, Palazzo Strozzi and San Marco Museum, Florence, 2025. Photo Ela Bialkowska, OKNO Studio

The secret Renaissance is told from Genoa to Naples
On Tuesday, November 11, Sky Arte is offering a six-stage route that explores the lesser-known faces of the Italian Renaissance and goes beyond the most popular tourist routes. The first episode of Secret Renaissancesbroadcast at 9:15 p.m., takes you to Genoa, to discover the legacy left by Andrea Doria and the residence with frescoes by Perin del Vaga. At 9:50 PM we go between Sabbioneta and Mantua, with the urban utopia of Vespasiano Gonzaga among classical myths and architectural illusions in the Ducale and Te palaces, while then we land in Padua, marked by the arrival of Donatello in 1443. After Ancona and Loreto, the heart of an Adriatic Renaissance, the focus shifts to Naples, among the cradles of the European Renaissance, while the journey ends in Salento, where the Renaissance bears the extraordinary forms of the Baroque.
The Sky Arte week ends on Sunday, November 16 with The lost Caravaggio. This documentary thriller is set in the chiaroscuro that characterizes Caravaggio’s art and sketches the history ofSee a mana painting lost in a house in Madrid and valued at a negligible price, sparking worldwide interest in its possibility of being a Caravaggio. Spectators are taken on a journey through European and Italian cities, between the artistic legacy of Michelangelo Merisi and the story of the work of art’s restoration and sale.

Michelangelo Merisi (Caravaggio), Ecce Homo, After the Restoration, 1605-1609. Oil on canvas, 111×86 cm. Private collection

Su Arte.tv 100 years of “New Construction”
Light, airy and accessible: this must have been the house that was built from scratch in many major European cities such as Bordeaux, Berlin, Vienna and Frankfurt am Main in the mid-1920s, under the impetus of architects such as Le Corbusier, Bruno Taut, Walter Gropius, Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky and Ernst May. New housing projects offer different living spaces to replace the old, damp and cramped courtyard houses. Arte.tv talks about it in the documentary “100 years of “Neues Bauen”, which can be seen on the platform until April 28.