Raffael

Raffaello Santi -called Raffael for short- embodies just like Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo the "uomo universale" of the Renaissance. Through his works of art and his architecture he became a legend even during his lifetime.Transfigured through his early death, he gained the auro of "Master of Graces".

Oliver Schnyder, probably the most promising Swiss pianist of his generation, has recorded the soundtrack to a film by Heinz Bütler about the Swiss painter Albert Anker. A selection of the most beautiful and popular "Lyrical Pieces" by Edgard Grieg is musically set to the multi-layered portrait of the Swiss artist. The film "Malstunden bei Raffael" (Painting Lessons with Raphael) opens up the work, thinking and life of the great Swiss painter for the first time in a cinematic way far beyond the well-known and often clichéd: In "Albert Anker. Painting Lessons with Raphael", a "room of wonders" is the starting point of the journey through time to Albert Anker (1831-1910).

Dank dieser gut lesbaren und solide kommentierten Ausgabe hat der Kunsthistoriker wie der interessierte Laie die wichtigsten Informationen zu Italiens Renaissancegenies zur Hand. In anekdotenreichen biografischen Miniaturen werden die bedeutendsten Künstlergestalten einer Epoche lebendig, die zurecht als Gipfel europäischer Malerei und Architektur gilt.

Britain's country houses are home to astonishing world-class art collections full of priceless old masters and more. In this three-part series art historian Helen Rosslyn opens the doors of some of our most impressive country houses to tell the story of how so many great paintings came to Britain and of the adventurous men and women who brought them here.