Saturday on Sky Arte premieres TV documentary on Raphael's Sistine Madonna

Premiering on Saturday, Dec. 26, at 9:15 p.m., on Sky Arte (Sky channels 120 and 400) will be the documentary Raphael’s La Madonna Sistina, the story of one of Raphael Sanzio ’s (Urbino, 1483 - Rome, 1520) masterpieces, the Sistine Madonna, a work that the Urbino painter created in about 1513-1514 for the convent of San Sisto in Piacenza (at least according to Giorgio Vasari’s account). The painting remained in Piacenza for a long time after which, in 1754, it was sold to Augustus III of Poland, who gave it to his collection in Dresden, where the Sistine Madonna still stands today, in the halls of the Gemäldegalerie. A celebrated painting, best known for the two famous little angels that became a symbol of Raphael’s art, reproduced on thousands of media until it became a pop icon as well, the Sistine Madonna is now recounted in this documentary that traces its historical and artistic events.

Made by 3D Productions for Sky Arte on a subject by Didi Gnocchi (which follows the book Sette Giorni by Leonid Rabinovich Volynskij, a Soviet army officer who was commissioned by Stalin to find the work after, following the arrival of the Red Army in the city in 1945, the painting disappeared, only to re-emerge in 1955 in Moscow and thus be returned to Germany), Raphael’s La Madonna Sistina features a screenplay by Arianna Marelli and direction by Claudio Poli, with testimonies by art historians and museum directors and the participation of Sonia Bergamasco.

Saturday on Sky Arte premieres TV documentary on Raphael's Sistine Madonna

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