PORTRAIT DE L'AMI EN HOMME DE COUR

PORTRAIT DE BALDASSARE CASTIGLIONE, RAPHAËL - COLLECTION PALETTES

of JAUBERT Alain

FRANCE, 1994, 00:30:00

Production : SAADOUN Paul, PALETTE PRODUCTIONS, PAINI Dominique, MUSEE DU LOUVRE, LA SEPT-ARTE, REUNION DES MUSEES NATIONAUX, MUSEE D'ORSAY
Collection : Musée du Louvre
Genre : Documentary
Keyword : Art, History, History of art, Louvre Museum, Painting, Portrait

Summary :
Choosing key-works in the imaginary of the Western culture, the series called “Palettes” tells in each episode the story of a different painting. In a word, it tells the genealogy of the painting. For a painting has its ancestors and its descendants. A double technical and philosophical knowledge, fed on by a long tradition, gave birth to the painting. And the painting itself gave birth, year after year, to a multitude of other images…
Assuming the idea that the deep meaning of a painting is conveyed by the choice of colours and themes, we dissect the canvas from its most visible composition to its deepest significance.

The "Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione" is one of the most beautiful portraits of the Italian Renaissance. It is the portrait of a man, Baldassare Castiglione, who has been the confidant ambassador of various princes and the Pope, and also a writer of one of the greatest book of his time "The Book of the Courtier", a new bible for good manners and discriminating minds. He also was the friend and mentor of Raphael. The young painter paid tribute to his friendship with this painting that has all the secret signs of a culture to be rediscovered.

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