Gold in Renaissance Painting (Video)
Journey through the Gallery’s collection to learn how artists such as Andrea Mantegna and Duccio applied gold to their paintings and explore the different gilding techniques used in works such as ‘The Wilton Diptych’ and ‘The San Pier Maggiore Altarpiece’, with our Curatorial, Scientific and Conservation departments. Gold shines bright throughout the National Gallery’s collection, […]
Webb Reveals New Features in Heart of the Milky Way
Amid the estimated 500,000 stars in the image is a cluster of protostars – stars that are still forming and gaining mass – producing outflows that glow like a bonfire in the midst of an infrared-dark cloud. At the heart of this young cluster is a previously known, massive protostar over 30 times the mass […]
Beniamino Gigli – Ave Maria (Bach-Gounod) (Video)
Beniamino Gigli (Recanati, March 20, 1890 – Rome, November 30, 1957) was an Italian lyric tenor born on the same day as the Danish heroic tenor Lauritz Melchior. He is considered one of the best tenors of the first half of the 20th century, and along with Enrico Caruso and Jussi Björling was the […]
Ming: The Golden Empire
National Museums Scotland commissioned Tigershark to produce two videos promoting its Ming – The Golden Empire exhibition. The videos were devised to be a key part of the museum’s marketing strategy, with a short teaser video to be released in advance of the exhibition’s launch and a more in-depth production to build the audience’s excitement […]
Pietro Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana (Video)
Cavalleria rusticana, is a one-act melodrama with music by Pietro Mascagni and libretto in Italian by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci, based on a story by novelist Giovanni Verga. Considered one of the classic operas of verismo, it premiered on May 17, 1890 at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome.
Leonardo da Vinci (5/5): Retreat of the Italian genius in France under the patronage of Francis I
Neither the loss of an eye nor the paralysis of his right hand could stop Leonardo da Vinci from continuing to work during his last years. He died at the Château Clos-Lucé in France, where he lived a peaceful retirement, protected by his patron, the French King Francis I. Leonardo da Vinci accompanied Pope Leo […]
Leonardo da Vinci (4/5): Rivalry with Michelangelo and birth of the Mona Lisa
The painter Leonardo da Vinci and the sculptor Michelangelo, whose rivalry was well known, met to work on the painting of two huge murals in the most emblematic room of the Palazzo Vecchio. It was during this period that Leonardo painted two of his most famous works: “Madonna and Child with St. Anne” and “Mona […]
66 Great Tenors (Video)
66 great tenors from Enrique Caruso to Joseph Calleja, in this quick review of these opera greats.
Leonardo da Vinci (3/5): Origins of “The Last Supper” and Architectural Works (video)
At the age of 45, Leonardo has reached his artistic maturity, but he still has a dream: to create a great pictorial work. Due to the outbreak of a plague in Milan, Leonardo draws sketches of an organic city, inspired by blood circulation and organized in channels and streets at different levels so as to […]
Caravaggio ~ Robert Hughes Full Documentary
Fantastic biography of the great Italian painter. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (Milan, September 29, 1571-Porto Ercole, July 18, 1610), known as Caravaggio, was an Italian painter, active in Rome, Naples, Malta and Sicily between 1593 and 1610. His painting combines a realistic observation of the human figure, both physically and emotionally, with a dramatic […]