DOpe the great success of the special dedicated to Sicily of Montalbano, last February, tonight at 9.30 pm on Rai 1 a new cycle of episodes of ULISSE – The pleasure of discovery 2025 by Alberto Angela. The most loved scientific popularizer on TV will tell The life and works of the great painter Vincent Van Gogh while the next episodes will be dedicated to London, Istanbul and Lucrezia Borgia.
Ulisse by Alberto Angela on Rai 1, tonight the episode on Vincent Van Gogh
Who was Vincent Van Gogh really? Alberto Angela wants to answer this question tonight with the special dedicated to the Flemish painter. The popularizer will accompany the spectators through the places that inspired his most famous paintings and who have been the backdrop to his painful human affair. From the native country Zundred up to Antwerp, Paris and Arlesin the south of France, where Van Gogh painted some of his masterpieces such as Fifteen sunflowers in a vase And Vincent’s room.
Retracing the painter’s tormented private life, Alberto Angela will try to understand how his works were bornso that they are crossed by Thus energetic brushstrokes and what to make them so unique, like dreams with open eyes. Cursed and misunderstood artist, bipolar person, brothel visitor: There are many legends born around the figure of Van Gogh that Angela will try to investigate.
Alberto Angella in the “Ulysses” special entitled “Van Gogh, the colors of eternity”. (Rai Press Office)
Vincent Van Gogh’s life and works
Son of a Protestant shepherdVincent Van Gogh was born in Zundred, in the south of Holland, in 1853 and at just under 30, After trying the preacher career, He decides to devote himself to painting. In September 1883 he went to live in the north of the Netherlands, then returns to the South and He moved to Nuenen where he creates almost two hundred paintings and numerous watercolors and drawings. The protagonists of these works are the weavers at work and the simple people of the village. To the farmers dedication Potato eatersthe masterpiece of his Dutch period.
At the end of 1886 he left for Paris: goes to live in his brother Theo’s apartment. He knows many artists (including Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec): painters younger than him but animated by the same impatience towards traditionalisms. In the Parisian period, paints views of cities, self -portraits and still lifes. Two years later, attracted by southern light and intense place colors, He moved to Arles, Provence, where he creates two hundred paintings and one hundred other works between drawings and watercolors.
Marked by serious mental problemsin 1889 voluntarily enters the maison de Santé of Saint-Paul-de-Mausole, an old convent used as a psychiatric hospital A Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. The following year, in 1890, he left Saint-Rémy definitively for reaching his brother in Paris but things in his head do not improve. A blow of revolt is shot on July 27, 1890. He died two days later, assisted by his brother Theo, at the age of 37.
The next episodes of ULISSE – The pleasure of discovery
In this new program of the program they are Three other appointments are planned, Always on Monday in the early evening. Next week, Alberto Angela will bring spectators to discover London and the key places of the British capitalhowever telling them from an original perspective. That is to say Through the great artists of the music that inhabited her Like David Bowie, the Queen and many others. Angela will visit this 12 historical locations such as the Wembley stadium, the alleys of Camden Town but also the legendary Abbey Road Studios of the Beatles.
The third episode of Ulisse instead it will focus on the city of Istanbulbridge between Europe and Asia. Last but not least, one will be broadcast at the end of April special dedicated to Lucrezia Borgia, one of the most controversial women of the Renaissance. Daughter of a pope, sister of an unscrupulous leader and she herself skilled politics and diplomatic, was one of the most mysterious and fascinating noblewomen of all time.
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