Art on TV June 1-7: The Girl with the Pearl Earring, La Maja desnuda, RAI masters


Like every Monday, today we have for you a list of TV programs dedicated to art aired during the week of June 1-7.

Rai 3 will broadcast daily, Monday through Friday, at 3 p.m:20 a new episode of Culture Presents Masters, the new RAI program in which academics and great popularizers bring school to the home with short fifteen-minute lessons aimed at all students (43 episodes, 86 lessons aimed at all high school students, with more than twenty masters of excellence introduced by Edoardo Camurri who introduces and introduces the protagonists of culture, academics of all disciplines, great popularizers of science: among the names are Alessandro Barbero, Eva Cantarella, Marta Cartabia, Sabino Cassese, Andrea Giardina, Vittorio Lubicz, Alberto Melloni, Maria Grazia Messina, Marco Mezzalama, Massimo Montanari, Piergiorgio Odifreddi, Telmo Pievani, Nicola Piovani, Chiara Saraceno, Liliana Segre, Luca Serianni, Beppe Severgnini, Claudio Strinati, Gianni Toniolo, Mario Tozzi, Alessandro Zuccari).

Rai 5 will air the documentary Art Passion and Power with art historian Andrew Graham-Dixon on Monday, June 1 and Tuesday, June 2 at 8:20 a.m. and 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, June 3 and Thursday, June 4 at 8:20 a.m. On Friday, June 5, an episode of The World’s Greatest Museums dedicated to the Prado Museum in Madrid will air at 7:25 p.m.

On Rai Storia, Italia: viaggio nella bellezza returns Tuesday, June 2 at 9:30 a.m., Wednesday, June 3 at 7:30 a.m. and 7:10 p.m., and Thursday, June 4 at 7:10 p.m., while Maestri returns daily at 5 p.m.

Rai Movie, at 7:55 a.m. Thursday, June 4, will broadcast La maja desnuda, the 1959 David di Donatello-winning film for best production about the thwarted love between painter Francisco Goya and the Duchess of Alba.

Sky Arte will offer new installments of Renaissance - Lights and Shadows, Myths and Oil Painting on Monday, June 1 and Tuesday, June 2 at 10:30 a.m., Goya - Visions of Flesh and Blood, a journey through the painter’s works, on Monday, June 1 at 5 p.m., Florence and the Uffizi on Thursday, June 4 at 1 p.m. and a new installment of Brunelleschi and the World’s Great Domes on Saturday, June 6 at 1 p.m. Don’t miss Thursday, June 4 at 10:30 p.m. The Girl with the Pearl Earring, the film that anointed Scarlett Johansson dedicated to the making of Jan Vermeer’s painting.

Art on TV June 1-7: The Girl with the Pearl Earring, La Maja desnuda, RAI masters
Art on TV June 1-7: The Girl with the Pearl Earring, La Maja desnuda, RAI masters


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