Lucrèce Borgia (1953)

Charlton Heston e Rex Harrison interpretam duas das personalidades mais marcantes da Renascença neste drama histórico baseado no best-seller de Irving Stone ambientado no início do Século XVI. Quando o Papa Júlio II encomenda a Michelangelo a pintura do teto da Capela Sistina, o artista recusa a princípio. Virtualmente forçado por Júlio a fazer o trabalho, ele acaba por destruir sua obra e foge de Roma. Quando recomeça a pintura, o projeto se torna uma batalha de vontades alimentada pelas diferenças artísticas e de temperamento que são o ponto central deste filme. Indicado ao OSCAR® de Melhor Fotografia e também citado como um dos melhores filmes do ano pelo National Board of Review, AGONIA E ÊXTASE é uma fantástica dramatização da luta por trás de uma das maiores obras-primas do mundo. Tanto a história quanto o filme são tocantes e fascinantes.

Neste épico cativante repleto de intriga, ação e romance, o belo e talentoso Tyrone Power brilha no papel-título como Andrea Orsini, um corajoso e ousado soldado. A história é ambientada na Itália na época da Renascença, onde a famosa e violenta família Borgia, comandada por Cesare Borgia (Orson Welles), está determinada a tomar as terras vizinhas e expandir o império, poder e riqueza da família. Como soldado-espião dos Borgias, Orsini é enviado a um pequeno território que Cesare espera capturar. Mas Orsini é cativado pela inteligência e charme do Duque e de sua jovem esposa. Dividido entre a lealdade e seu senhor e a crescente amizade com suas possíveis vítimas, Orsini se vê numa feroz e espetacular batalha que o força a confrontar suas próprias ideias de justiça e nobreza. A soberba fotografia de Leon Shamroy da região campestre italiana fornece um pano de fundo maravilhoso para este imperdível mistura de drama com aventura.

The story of Benvenuto Cellinin (1500-1571), a soldier and one of the most important craftsmen and artists of Renaissance Italy whose life was marked by many achievements and adventures, but also crimes. There is also the mini-series version consisted of three 90 minutes episodes, broadcasted by RaiDue.

A playwright descended from the Borgias family becomes a murder suspect.

In November 15, 2017, the painting Salvator Mundi, attributed to Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), was sold for an unprecedented $450 million. An examination of the dirty secrets of the art world and the surprising story of how a work of art is capable of upsetting both personal and geopolitical interests.

In the early 16th century, Italy is ruled by the powerful Borgia family, led by César Borgia and his sister Lucrèce. In a ruthless power play, César plots to have his sister’s husband murdered. But without her brother’s knowledge, Lucrèce has taken a strong lover who will challenge the Borgias.

The tiny independent duchy of Ferrara is located between Casare Borgia's Rome and Venice, and Borgia has plans to conquer Venice via Ferrara. He murders his sister's husband and makes it appear that Alfonso D'Este of Ferrara was behind the killing. To avenge herself against Ferrara and D'Este, Lucretia Borgia marries D'Este and intends to poison him. But...she falls in love with him.

Janina Ramirez explores the BBC archives to create a TV history of Leonardo Da Vinci, discovering what lies beneath the Mona Lisa and even how he acquired his anatomical knowledge.

French silent film pioneer Abel Gance directs this 1935 classic about Lucrezia Borgia, her brother, Cesare. and her father, Pope Alexander VI -- one of history's most ruthless and ambitious crime families.

The mysterious parallel story of Italian painters Andrea Mantegna (ca. 1431-1506) and Giovanni Bellini (ca. 1435-1516), brothers-in-law, public rivals and masters of the early Renaissance.

First seen at La Monnaie in Brussels on 13 May 1998, this production of Monteverdi’s L’ORFEO seen through the eyes of Trisha Brown and René Jacobs has become an operatic classic in a few short years. This is doubtless because it offers a total symbiosis of music, text and movement – described by the critic of the Daily Telegraph of London as being ‘as close to the perfect dance opera as I have ever seen’. Or to quote Gilles Macassar in Télérama: ‘In the pit and onstage, the Brussels production has only one watchword: mobility, nimbleness, dexterity. The singers run, fly, whirl like dancers defying gravity. From the flies down to the footlights, the whole theatre is under a fantastic spell.’ For Christophe Vetter, on ConcertoNet: ‘This Orfeo can be seen again and again with immense pleasure. . . . René Jacobs’s conducting continues to arouse admiration for its precision, its stylistic rigour, its inexhaustible inventiveness and its feeling for the contrasts so vital to this repertoire.’

English artist, writer, curator and teacher Sir Lawrence Gowing narrates a personal exploration of some of the great Florentine painter Masaccio's key works.

Margherita nicknamed Fornarina is Raphael's mistress. Beatrice, a noblewoman who is also in love with the famous painter tries to get her out of the way, by having her wrongly accused of the murder of a loan shark, whom she has in reality killed herself. Fornarina is sentenced to death. Will Raphael manage to prove her innocent?

During Italian renaissance, young painter Raffaello Sanzio falls in love with Margherita, a maiden of the people, becomes her lover and lives with her. But this relationship arouses the jealousy of a beautiful aristocrat who secretly orders the kidnapping of the girl. Raffaello falls into a state of prostration and does everything he can to find Margherita...

Acquired in July 1909 by art collector Wilhelm von Bode (1845-1929), director general of the Prussian Art Collections and founding director of the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum, now the Bode-Museum, the Bust of Flora, Roman goddess of flowers, has been the subject of controversy for more than a century. Von Bode, under pressure from the German Kaiser Wilhelm II, argued that the wax sculpture was created by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519).

Animated short film of Michelangelo set to Beethoven Symphony No. 5 - I. Allegro con brio.

Garota de 16 anos, solitária e tímida, aceita convite para encontro com amigo que a inicia no sexo e em jogos sádicos. Devagar, ela se envolve com esse mundo e passa a ter encontros ousados com outros parceiros.

Baseado na triologia épica 'As Cruzadas' de Jan Guillou, lançada inclusive no Brasil. Arn Magnussson nasceu em 1150 na fazenda Arnas, em West Gothia (atual Suécia). Ele cresce em um mosteiro até se tornar um jovem educado e um qualificado guerreiro. É quando encontra Cecilia, o amor de sua vida. Mas um mundo cruel e invejoso os forçam a se separarem. Cecilia é presa em um convento e Arn é enviado para a Terra Santa, onde ferve a guerra entre cristãos e muçulmanos, e lá se torna um temido Cavaleiro Templário.