Michael Courtland (Cliff Robertson), un importante hombre de negocios de Nueva Orleáns, pierde a su mujer Elizabeth (Genevieve Bujoid) y a su hija de nueve años en el fatal desenlace de un trágico secuestro. Muchos años después, durante un viaje por Italia con un socio suyo (John Lithgow), queda fascinado al conocer a Sandra, una joven que es el vivo retrato de su esposa.
Martin es un antiguo burgués bohemio parisino que se ha instalado en un pequeño pueblo de Normandía como panadero local. Es un apasionado de las obras de Gustave Flaubert. Cerca de él se instala una pareja de británicos llamados Gemma y Charles Bovery. No sólo tienen nombre similares a los de la novela 'Madame Bovary' sino que tienen comportamientos similares a los de la obra de Flaubert.
Un documental sobre la fallecida Vivian Maier, una niñera cuyas 100.000 fotografías hasta entonces desconocidas le valieron una reputación póstuma como una de las mejores fotógrafas de la calle.
Stefano, un joven restaurador, es encomendado a restaurar el martirio de San Sebastián, el último trabajo de Legnani. Al parecer, Legnani sufría desórdenes mentales, solía pintar a gente cerca de la muerte o de la agonía. Estos hechos junto con la extraña atmósfera que rodea al pueblo donde ha llegado Stefano, hacen de su realidad una pesadilla.
A young woman who has just started a job at an art museum writes an email to a friend she lived with until recently. The other woman, also young, works as an artist and has just moved to a new city. A narrator reads this email, but we don't know which of the two women the voice belongs to, whether to the sender or to the receiver of the message. Neither are we aware of the details of this relationship; but what we do know is that, in addition to their interest in art, they share a concern for the difficulties of carrying out their personal and professional lives in the present. By focusing on the peripheral or hidden details of some paintings in the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, this narrator relates several stories linked to the social, economic and psychological conditions of the artists, both past and present.
Sir Anthony Blunt, who was a Soviet agent for 25 years, is routinely questioned and gives no answers, but is knighted and works as Director of the Courtauld Institute, and presents his interrogator with a puzzle in the shape of a doubtful Titian painting. He also does art restoration work in Buckingham Palace, where he gets into an interesting conversation with HMQ.
When chaos reigns, while barbaric and fanatical rulers, both ecclesiastical and secular, systematically burn entire libraries, book hunters, secret heroes of history, travel the world saving and copying texts, threatened by the madness of censors, with the noble purpose of preventing the ultimate loss of human knowledge.
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.
Paintings conservators at the Getty Center reveal details of their craft as they restore two large paintings by French master Jean-Baptiste Oudry.
For 25 centuries the Parthenon has been shot at, set on fire, rocked by earthquakes, looted for its sculptures, and disfigured by catastrophic renovations. To save it from collapse, the modern restoration team must uncover the secrets of how the ancient Greeks built this icon of western civilization in less than nine years without anything resembling an architectural plan.
Introduction to an extensive training program for everyone professionally involved in the process of film conservation and film restoration. The realization of this training program was initiated and coordinated by ECIPAR (Bologna-Italy) and the Cineteca del Comune di Bologna. It was produced in co-operation with eleven European film archives and film laboratories and co-financed by the FILM project - FORCE program of the European Community.
This rare film tells the strange, disquieting and protracted story of the restoration of Leonardo da Vinci’s famous masterpiece, The Last Supper. Some say the results of the restoration are glorious. Others have called them tragic. Da Vinci’s famously fragile fresco was always going to be a challenge for its secretive Italian restorers. No one, however, could have foreseen how problematic and strange their task would become. Marked by a series of extraordinary mishaps, mistakes, and miscalculations, the incredible restoration is hilarious to watch but may have resulted in the loss of a masterpiece.