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Rivalen der Renaissance. Bellini und Mantegna | © TAG/TRAUM / arte
© TAG/TRAUM / arte

Rivalen der Renaissance. Bellini und Mantegna

  • Die Geheimnisse der Renaissance-Maler - Giovanni Bellini und Andrea Mantegna (Working title)
Documentary | 2018-2019 | Art, Docu, Period | Germany

Shooting data

Start of shooting12/07/2017
End of shooting13/06/2018
LocationsLondon, Padua, Venedig, Paris

Project data

Film financing
Length of movie53 Minuten

Brief synopsis

Andrea Mantegna and Giovanni Bellini are among the most important artists of the Early Renaissance. Their work was closely interlinked and yet they remained rivals throughout their lives. Who were these men?

Both born in Italy in the 15th century, Andrea Mantegna and Giovanni Bellini became the most important artists of the Early Renaissance, although they could not have been more different. The two painters, who were brothers-in-law, influenced each other’s work for many years, but throughout their lives they remained rivals. To this day, much about their work and biographies is unexplained. Dr. Neville Rowley, curator of the exhibition „Mantegna and Bellini” at The National Gallery in London takes a closer look at the exceptional painters. In a fictional inner monologue, the two men reflect upon their lives: their paintings, their relationship to each other, their family ties, their students and the difficulties they had with their aristocratic and clerical patrons. Do the artists‘ paintings contain any hidden references to their attempts to undermine the values of the church and aristocracy? Atmospheric re-enactments are shot in Venice, Florence, Rome, Padua and Mantua and their colour and lighting adapted to the Early Renaissance.

(German Docs)

Crew

ActivityNameComment
ColoristAndreas Hellmanzik
Director of photographyMatthias Kind
DirectorMargarete Kreuzer
EditorKirsten Ottersdorf
ComposerAndré Feldhaus
ProducerGerd Haag
Co-producerMatthias Greving
Line producerCornelia Kellers
ScreenwriterMargarete Kreuzer
Sound re-recording mixerAndreas Hellmanzik

Production companies

CompanyComment
Tag/Traum Filmproduktion GmbH [de]
Kinescope Film GmbH [de]
coproduction
coproduction

Distribution / Sales companies

CompanyComment
New Docs e.K. [de]
World Sales
World Sales

TV-broadcast

TypeCountryStationDate / TimeComment
RepeatGermanyarteSunday, 12/01/2020, 4.00 PM
RepeatGermanyrbb [de]Sunday, 28/04/2019, 11.05 PM
First showingGermanyarteSunday, 10/03/2019, 3.35 PM