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La conquista dei colori
The history of Man can be seen as a succession of conquests: we never think about the history of colors and yet it has changed our lives. "The conquest of colours" is a journey to discover how our world has been enriched with millions of shades over the centuries, thanks to the appearance of increasingly bright hues and colours. We will start from the Paleolithic, when humanity could essentially only have three colours: black, ocher and white. And we will continue to discover how the deep Egyptian blue, the first synthetic color in history, and the elegant purple of the Phoenicians and Romans were then added. We will see how the great glass masters learned to flood the cathedrals with colored lights, and how the greatest artists of the past obtained their colors using precious stones, such as lapis lazuli from which the blue used for example by Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel was obtained.
Aired: Mar 17, 2012 Genre: DocumentaryCasts: Alberto Angela Saverio IndrioCreated By: Piero Angela Alberto AngelaRating: 0 Country: Italy Production: RAI
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01: Le meraviglie della Roma cristiana02: La conquista dei colori03: Viaggio tra i segreti e i tesori di Ostia Antica04: La lunga notte del Titanic05: Oltre la Patagonia. Viaggio in capo al mondo (seconda versione)06: Il lungo viaggio di Ramesse07: Viaggio attraverso le Alpi08: Città scomparse09: Nemici invisibili10: Il sorriso della Luna11: Viaggio nella mente degli animali12: Le meraviglie e i segreti di Parigi13: L'amore al tempo di Nerone14: La nascita di Atene15: Le meraviglie della Rift Valley16: I segreti della vittoria17: I detective dell'antichità18: Gli enigmi delle civiltà (seconda versione)