Art week on TV, from Bramantino to Raphael’s Sistine Madonna, the rediscovered masterpiece – Arte.it

Raphael and Botticelli at Sky Arte
Desired by popes and monarchs, admired by artists, escaped wars and regimes, hidden and recovered several times, Sistine Madonna, exhibited in the rooms of the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden, has seen many vicissitudes. His greatest adventure began at the court of Pope Julius II, in Rome at the beginning of the sixteenth century. After passing through the Benedictine monastery of San Sisto in Piacenza and arriving in Dresden in the mid-eighteenth century, it was hidden with other works in German museums during the Second World War and ended up in a railway tunnel in the mountains of Saxony. The outcome of these disturbing events is told in the Sky Arte documentary entitled Raphael’s Sistine Modonna – The Rediscovered Masterpiecebroadcast on Tuesday, December 16 at 5:20 PM.
We reach Botticelli’s Florence on Wednesday the 17th Botticelli in Florence – The birth of beautya route in an authentic open-air museum along the masterpieces of the master who was also the creator of a new model of beauty that could overcome the barrier of centuries.
The art week on TV therefore guides us through the torments of Amedeo Modigliani, the short-lived artist from Livorno, told in the docufilm Damn Modiglianibroadcast Sunday, December 21 at 5:15 PM The master lives again through the point of view of Jeanne Hébuterne, his last young companion.
Damn Modigliani

Rai Storia celebrates Bramantino
On Rai Storia, “Daily Iconology”, broadcast every day on Monday, December 15 in the late evening and repeated at 8:45 and 8:00 PM, accompanies the public to discover one of Bramantino’s masterpieces. Dating from the early 16th century, “The Madonna is enthroned with Saint Ambrose and the Archangel Michael” communicates with its solemn visual impact the defeat of evil and heresy by faith. The art historian Rodolfo Papa accompanies the foot of the imposing throne on which the Madonna sits and explains its illustrative power that delights, also thanks to the perfect symmetries and balance between all the subjects represented.

Jane Austen is the main character of ARTE.tv
250 years after her birth, ARTE.tv celebrates Jane Austen with a special that commemorates one of the most emblematic figures of nineteenth-century literature and a pioneer of the female novel. In addition to inspiring famous film and television adaptations from “Pride and Prejudice” to “Sense and Sensibility,” his works have become great classics and continue to speak to the present, capturing the imagination of contemporary pop culture.