On Rai5 a documentary recounts the long restoration of Michelangelo's frescoes in the Sistine Chapel

OnFriday, Nov. 19, a new episode of Art Night, a program by Silvia De Felice and Emanuela Avallone, Massimo Favia, and Alessandro Rossi, directed by Andrea Montemaggiori, will air on Rai5.

The protagonists of two premiere documentaries are Hokusai and Michelangelo, around the signing. Cwhat happens after a work has been completed by its author? It happens that works are ruined by time, or destroyed by catastrophic events, and so, to what extent is it permissible to intervene to restore them to what we think is their original appearance? Neri Marcorè will be grappling with these questions.

The evening will kick off at 9:15 p.m. with The Imagined Hokusai, an original production by Japanese TV station NHK. Katsushika Hokusai, a Japanese master of Ukiyo-e art in the Edo period, is now recognized as one of the greatest artists of all time. One of his best-loved and most celebrated works is The Great Wave of Kanagawa. In this documentary we will trace the life of the painter who lived between the 18th and 19th centuries, and witness the evolution of a singular project: recreating one of his works, which was destroyed by fire during the great Kanto earthquake in 1923, from a single black-and-white photograph taken in the early 20th century. A photographer skilled in digital processing and an art restorer will attempt to recreate the work, with its original colors, so it can be placed back where it was originally intended.

This will be followed by a valuable documentary from the Teche Rai titled Michelangelo: The Judgment Revealed by Nino Criscenti, which chronicles the full restoration of Michelangelo’s frescoes in the Sistine Chapel, led by Gianluigi Colalucci, who passed away in March 2021. Art historian Jacopo Veneziani comments on the documentary. The documentary recounts the lengthy restoration of the Sistine Chapel, which began in 1980 and lasted fourteen years, starting with the preparatory drawings and the fresco, with interviews with leading experts of the time, including those most critical of the restoration work. Thanks to unique RAI camera access to the restoration scaffolding, it is possible to see up close and day by day the work of Fabrizio Mancinelli, director of works, and Gianluigi Colalucci, who for fourteen years lived in daily contact with Michelangelo’s frescoes in the Sistine Chapel.

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On Rai5 a documentary recounts the long restoration of Michelangelo's frescoes in the Sistine Chapel

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