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André Chastel, a Feeling of Happiness

Louvre Interviews series

 These films are designed as encounters—with people, ideas, methods. […] They use the means of cinema—its ability to evoke the past, and often even the invisible—to bring the viewer face to face with the art historian. (Michel Laclotte, former Director of the Musée du Louvre.)

Director(s): Edgardo Cozarinsky

André Chastel (1912–1990) was one of the most eminent international specialists in the Italian Renaissance, to which he devoted the major part of his work. In this film, made at his home toward the end of his life, he discusses his work as an art historian and his love of Italy, revealing that the understanding of art requires an ever-present sensitivity, and that pleasure is heightened, rather than lessened, by erudition and rigor.

Genre

Documentary

Copyright

1990

Length

52 minutes

Producer(s)

Les Films d’Ici ; Musée du Louvre

Co-producer(s)

La Sept/Arte

Commercial distribution

Les Films d’Ici

Non-commercial distribution

Adavision

Images de la Culture – CNC