The week of art on TV, from Klimt’s lost masterpiece to Vermeer’s paintings under the lens – Arte.it

A special day: the great fire of Rome
On the night of July 18, 64 AD, a spark transformed Rome under the arches of the Circus Maximus into a fiery hell. For nine days the capital of the empire burned without delay: the working-class neighborhoods, the villas of the patricians and even the emperor’s palace collapsed. According to tradition, while Rome burned, Nero witnessed the disaster by playing the zither and singing, dressed as a tragic actor, as he stared at the flames. According to tradition, the emperor himself was the instigator of the fire. But is there really evidence to support such an accusation?
From here begins the new episode of “Una Giorno Particolare”, broadcast on Wednesday, November 26 in prime time on La7, reconstructed by Aldo Cazzullo and the history correspondents Claudia Benassi and Raffaele di Placido. Klimt, Vermeer and Monet protagonists of Sky Art
Sky Arte’s week starts with a mystery. Today, Monday November 24, “The Mystery of the Lost Masterpieces – Klimt and the Third Reich” follows the stories of seven major paintings that tragically disappeared. In the episode, a team of experts will ‘reconstruct’ Gustav Klimt’s ‘Medicine’, a painting destroyed by fire at the end of World War II. This controversial work represents Hygieia, the goddess of health, placed in front of a series of naked bodies. Commissioned by the University of Vienna, but later rejected for its daring, the painting was sold by Klimt to a friend. The Nazis seized it at the beginning of World War II and took it to a castle, where it was destroyed by fire along with other canvases by the Austrian painter.

On Thursday, November 27, the Sky audience will take a trip to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam where, in the company of the museum director and the exhibition curators, they will delve into the halls of the largest exhibition to date dedicated to Johannes Vermeer. The record-breaking exhibition, which sold 650,000 tickets in just two days and ended in June 2023, offers an exclusive walk through the halls of the famous museum before and after the opening of the exhibition dedicated to the painter, revealing new aspects of the largest retrospective ever dedicated to the Dutch artist.
The path that first brought together almost all of Vermeer’s currently known masterpieces allows us to understand close-up details of iconic works, such as The milkmaid e The girl with the pearl earring.

Johannes Vermeer, Girl with a Pearl Earring, 1664-67, Mauritshuis, The Hague

Saturday 29 the fifth episode of Masterpiece – Art Revealed explores the secrets hidden among the great artistic masterpieces. Under the lens they will be Veduta dei Prins Hendrikkade e Curve Waal by Claude Monet, with their mysteries.

Rai Storia stops in Vietri
Vietri sul Mare, known worldwide for its ceramic art, is the protagonist of the episode “Italy. Journey to Beauty”, which first aired on Rai Storia on Monday, November 24 at 9:10 PM. Emanuele Colarossi, directed by Antonio Carbone and advised by Professor Alfonso Morone (University of Naples Federico II) and architect and designer Daniele Della Porta, will trace the history of Vietri, which since the 1920s has become a crossroads for artists and designers from all over the world, attracted by the charm of the ceramic tradition and the myth of the Mediterranean. The encounter between tradition and modernity has given rise to a rich season of contagion that has renewed the identity of Vietri ceramics, creating an ongoing dialogue with art, architecture and design.

Diego Velázquez (1599 – 1660), Las Meninas, 1656-1657, Olio su tela, 318 x 276 cm, Madrid, Museo del Prado

Tuesday 25 the new series of Daily iconologies focus the spotlight on the painting Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez. Created in 1656, it immortalizes the Spanish royal family in a highly evocative realistic scene. Art historian Rodolfo Papa invites us to focus on the representation: the king’s daughter, Margherita, is surrounded by the ladies-in-waiting, even though it is the rulers who steal the show, visibly reflected in a mirror, towards which the perspective lines of the work converge. The painter also inserts his self-portrait into the scene.

Su Arte.tv 100 years of “New Construction”
By the mid-1920s, a range of newly built, light, airy and accessible housing was being created in many major European cities such as Bordeaux, Berlin, Vienna and Frankfurt am Main. Architects such as Le Corbusier, Bruno Taut, Walter Gropius, Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky and Ernst May built these residential complexes that offer new living spaces with a separate living room, functional kitchen and private bathroom, replacing the old damp and cramped courtyard houses.