The Week of Art on TV, from Edward Hopper to the restoration of the mosaic from the Battle of Isso – Arte.it

The protagonists of Sky Arte, from Hopper to Jodice
A popular, quiet and mysterious America, able to influence painters such as Rothko and Banksy, filmmakers such as Alfred Hitchcock and David Lynch, but also photographers and musicians, crosses Edward Hopper’s cloths to bring the life and personal relationships of the great American artist, who his prominent relationship.
On July 22, 1882, Hopper was born in Nyack, a city on the Hudson River in the state of New York, as parents of a fabric store.
He will broadcast 143 years since that birth, Tuesday July 22 on Sky Arte, Hopper – An American love storyA compelling journey between secrets enclosed in the most iconic and enigmatic works of the painter. Directed by Phil Grabsky, the documentary revives the artist through a story that reveals the love of architecture and sometimes deserted landscapes of the States, but also that, tender and passionate, for the specific life partner Jo.

Edward Hopper, Full MezzogiNo, 1949. The Dayton Art Institute

The weekly agenda signed Sky continues, Thursday 24 July with the documentary The ladies with the Ermellinoa journey to the life of four independent women, extraordinary, interwoven with the adventurous events of the painting Lady with Hermellino By Leonardo da Vinci. What do teenagers Cecilia, Isabella, Izabela, Melitta have in common? Simply reach the Principi Czartoryski Museum, part of the National Museum of Krakow. As historians of the art of the caliber of Vittorio Sgarbi and Pietro explain Marani, but also masters of international photography such as Steve McCurry, in the painting The lady with the HermellinoLeonardo has been able to grasp a moment of reality – the birth of a smile, the movement of the eyes, the sudden turning of the girl – with a precision that actually takes the photo the first photographic portrait ante -nestam.

On Sunday 27 July in the first vision, Mimmo Jodice will lead us in a metaphysical Naples. One of the pioneers of a new artistic language that has enabled Italian photography to settle on the international field accompanies visitors to discover the thin atmosphere of a non -published and rarely visible Naples. Jodice transforms his city into a suspended place where quiet and solitary architecture landscapes alternate.

Sant’Apollinare Nuovo, Ravenna, Detail of the Mosaic of the Palazzo Di Teodorico

Ravenna is told about the history of Rai
Julius Caesar spent the winter and from here he would leave for the conquest of Rome, after he crossed the Rubicone in 49 A. C. In 402 Honorius chose it as the capital of the West -rijk. After the fall of the empire, in 476, the Barbaarse Odoacre chose it in the capital, as well as even Teodericico and, after the end of the Gota -Dominance, the Esackes of Byzantium.
City connected by fate with his lagoon territory, decisive, in the Risorgimento period, in the story that Giuseppe allowed Garibaldi to escape from the Austrians, Ravenna will be the protagonist of the documentary “Ravenna. A treasure of water” About Rai History for “History of Our Cities” on Monday, July 21 at 10.10 pm.

On RAI 1, “Noos” reveals the recovery of the mosaic from the Battle of Isso
Tonight, Monday, July 21 at 9.25 pm on RAI 1, “Noos – The Adventure of Knowledge”Professor Antonio de Simone, one of the most important Italian archaeologists, will talk about the restoration of the famous mosaic of the Battle of Isso, found in Pompeii and stored in the National Archeological Museum of Naples. There will also be room for art within the Alberto Angela program written with Fabio Buttarelli and with Luca di Ciaccio, Giovanni Carrada, Vito Lamberti, Paolo Magliocco, Aldo Piro, Emilio Quinto and Fabio Roberti Dr. Cultura.

In the eyes of the discoverers, in 1831 the masterpiece turned out not only to be in the uniqueness and dimensions of the represented scene, but also in the substantial good nature conservation statement. Behind the charm of a timeless work, the work of scientists and experts is developing to guarantee the maintenance and preservation of the masterpiece.

Alessandro Magno fights against Dario III in ISO

This masterpiece, built at the end of the second century BC, portrays the decisive moment of the collision in Isso in 333 BC, between Alexander the Great, the glorious Macedonian king and the Persians of Dario. It was an important struggle that ended with a burning defeat of the Persians who cried more than 100 thousand people.

During the episode we will also talk about climate change and increase in temperatures, while astrophysicist Luca Perri will accompany the spectators to Athens to make some ingenious inventions made by Greek scientists in the Hellenistic era. Under this, the “Early Machine” considered the oldest mechanical calculator in history. Instead, Carlo Lucarelli will tell the unsolved mystery of Lake Skeletten in India.