From the treasures of Istanbul, in the company of Alberto Angela, to the Egyptian museum of Turin, the art on TV in the week of 1 May

With Alberto Angela under the secrets of Istanbul, “the city that lived three times”
With its colorful waltz from Sultans and Keizers, Basilisse and Concubine, Eunuchi and Visir, and an unmistakable skyline with a view of the Golden Hoorn where everyone has left a more or less lasting print of their passage, Istanbul brings rare magic. To accompany us among the mysteries of the “city that lived three times” “Ulysses, the pleasure of discovery”Alberto Angela’s program broadcast tonight, Monday 28 April, in Prime Time on RAI1.
The first Greek colony with the name Byzantium, then for a thousand years of the capital of the Roman East with the name Constantinople, and for the other five hundred of the Ottoman Empire before he becomes the Megalopolis of modern Turkey, Istanbul reveals itself with its faceted face. To tell the evolution and the secrets, Alberto Angela will descend to the suggestive Cistern-Basilica, an authentic wood of columns that seem to come out of the water. It will go into the suggestive atmosphere of Santa Sofia, an architectural jewel that has been representing the largest church in the world for more than eight centuries and is subsequently converted to the mosque after the Ottoman conquest.
The episode will also reveal the only portrait of the last Byzantine emperor, Constantine XI, who arrived at us, found in December 2024 under old layers of painting in a Byzantine monastery of Aigialeia, in the Greek region of the Accea. And here is the Ottoman Istanbul, between the lush courtyards of the Topkapi building and that of the Harem, where the Sultan lived with the family. The Liberty atmosphere of the PERA Palace Hotel, the hotel for the beautiful world that constantinople reached on board the Orient Express, will finally leave room for the breathtaking view designed by domes and minarets on the changing waters of Bosporus and Golden Horn.

Sky Arte tells the Egyptian museum of Turin
The Egyptian museum of Turin, the oldest museum in the Egyptian archeology in the world, is in the center of the documentary broadcast on Sky Arte today, Monday 28 April at 7.25 pm. Using the participation of the Oscar winner Jeremy Irons, “Men and gods – The miracles of the Egyptian Museum” Invite the viewer for an exceptional trip to this prestigious attitude. The director Christian Greco will guide us between the places of origin of the finds, from the excavations from Giza to Tebe, by Deir El-Medina, through exclusive videos and historical reconstructions. Under the lens the funeral kit of KHA and Merit, the most important ever found in Egypt. After the Ultraterreno journey of the architect KHA, the mummification process is reconstructed, but also the funeral rituals and the path of the soul in the underworld. Finally, the public will face the Egyptian funeral culture and its evolution, from prehistory to the Ptolemaic era.

Monumental complex of the pilot, Parma

Tuesday April 29 the episode Parma The Duchy of Maria Luigia He follows the wake of a cultivated and modern woman who has transformed a small duchy into a refined cultural capital. In the aftermath of his arrival in Parma, on April 20, 1816, Maria Luigia renews the infrastructures – the construction of the bridge over the Taro, at the time the longest in Europe – dates back – and founded the Royal Theater, which enriched the Palatine Library and the talent of artists and intellectuals such as Bodoni and Testonielen. It is dedicated to the return of the artworks stolen during the Napoleonic countryside, while the pilot’s national gallery, under the impulse, becomes a public museum, a small lamb in the heart of Emilia. The testimonies of scholars and curators, from Francesca Sandrini to Simone Verde, from Carlo Mambrini to Lucia Fornari Schianchi and Luca Sommi, contribute to reconstructing the face of an “invisible” but lively Parma.

Luca Argentero in the role of Leonardo, in the film I, Leonardo by director Jesus Garces Lambert

Thursday 1 May at 20.40 in the first vision (Sky Exclusive) Nicolas Ballario, with episode 8 of The Square – Everything you can artleads us to visit the studies and exhibitions of important contemporary artists, while on Friday 2 May at 2.25 pm, birthday of the death of Leonardo da Vinci, Me, Leonardo It presents the most versatile and innovative man of the Italian Renaissance. Luca Argentero plays the role of the master, while the narrative voice of Francesco Pannofino takes up the figure of the Renaissance artist par excellence and investigated the customers and changeable led him through Europe, from Florence to Rome, from Milan to the castle of Clos-Lucé. A powerful visual story will come out the doors of the master, which show his creative process and his continuous search for knowledge.