Presenting a list of documentaries and feature films about art, which can be viewed on the TV channel «Culture» next week. It will show films of Michelangelo, Delacroix, Picasso and other artists Borovikovsky

August 25

10:50 - «History of art». 1-series. Sketches Ambassadorial stairs.

TV «Culture» starts to show a documentary series «The history of art» (France, 2007). The first series is dedicated to Charles Lebrenu.

The film introduces viewers to a brilliant, but no extant product of the French painter Charles Lebrun - Ambassadorial staircase of Versailles Palace, a true masterpiece of architecture and a brilliant example of visual propaganda royal power and grandeur of Louis XIV. On the orders of Louis XV staircase was destroyed. How richly it was decoration Ambassadorial stairs, can be judged only on the sketches of the murals painted by Lebrun, stored in the Louvre.

August 26

10:50 - «History of art». 2-series. Font St. Louis.

The authors conducted a fascinating investigation of film history, one of the exhibits of the Louvre - copper, inlaid with gold font, that font is called St. Louis. Made in the East, the finest on the cleverness of metal work of art moves us in the times of the Egyptian royal mamlyukov and France.

16:40 - «Meeting with the genius». Winslow Homer. Extraordinary American.

The movie was filmed in 1999 in Canada. It is part of a series of feature films «Meeting with the genius», whose aim is to tell children and teenagers about the life and works of great men.

Director: Graeme Lynch

Scenario: Heather competitive

Operator: Michael MakMyurrey

Music by: Peter Breyner

Cast: Wayne Best, Ryan Deboyer, Tamara Hope, Jennifer Gould, Brenda Devine

1874, New York. Painter Winslow Homer decided to move away from city life and retire to a farm Houghton. He was going to write, how to fish and, most importantly, enjoy the solitude. But his peace of violating two children: Fiona prater and young Geybl who dream to run away from home in the army and become a sniper, and his older brother. The children have never seen these pictures, they monitor the work of the artist, and will agree to pose for him. Talk with the artist, they know that during the civil war between North and South, Winslow Homer painted for the magazine. He has witnessed many famous battles, but most often painted ordinary soldiers and people in the rear, dreamed of returning home.

August 27

10:50 - «History of art». 3rd series. Death Sardanapala.

The film introduces viewers to the history of painting «Death Sardanapala» Delacroix, which is stored in the Louvre. At вернисаже Paris Art Salon in 1927 around this masterpiece of world art scandal erupted. Only after the artist's death his innovation was appreciated highly.

August 28

10:50 - «History of art». 4-series. Managing Ebih-Il.

alabaster statue of prayer, men - possibly the oldest artifact. She was found by archaeologists at the site long ago destroyed the city of Mary of Mesopotamia, the oldest district in the history of civilization. Now the statue is kept in the Louvre.

01:55 - documentary «Sensitivity gift. Vladimir Borovikovsky »(Russia, 2007).

Director: Vladimir Meletin

Script: Vladimir Meletin involving Yevgenia Khmeleva

Operators: Vladimir Meletin, Oleg Trofimovsky

Composer: Cyril Wellcome

announcer: Victor Petrov

Vladimir Lukic Borovikovsky - the last of a brilliant galaxy of Russian portrait of XVIII century. So far, Russian art, he remains a consummate master of sentimentalism. The artist began as a religious painter, was found in the yard, but is never tried in velikosvetskie stores. Borovikovsky lived a strict and ascetic, all time spent working. Loneliness and the tragedy of his unsatisfied soul reveals in letters to relatives in Malorossiya.

August 29

10:50 - «History of art». 5-series. Michelangelo. «Slave».

The most valuable exhibits of the Louvre - two sculptures by Michelangelo Buonarroti - the famous «resurgent office» and «moribund office». The wizard made it to the Vatican the cathedral of St. Peter. But they have not been installed there. The authors researched the film, what were the sculptures in the collection of the Louvre.

August 30

22:25 - documentary «Russian muse» (Russia, 2007).

Director: Julius Lurye

History of Pablo Picasso and the Russian ballerina Olga Khokhlova introduced to the audience as a problem of choosing between life values and purposes of art. The need for this choice makes the sublime love in a merciless struggle, which, in turn, has fueled a great creative artist, no less than love.

August 31

21:35 - documentary «The image of Virgin Mary» (USA, 2006)

Director: Martin Johnson

Operator: Chris Hartley

Music by: Matthew Scott

This image has always been a favorite with artists. Who was she really? Mother, the Virgin, the Queen? It is not clear how it looked, but it was portrayed more often than the most famous women in history - on canvas and glass, the silver and silk, on the tiny and giant Coulomb mosaics.

Sources: tvkultura.ru , artinvestment.ru