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The Renaissance Was it a Thing - Crash Course World History
In which John Green teaches you about the European Renaissance. European learning changed the world in the 15th and 16th century, but was it a cultural revolution, or an evolution? We'd argue that any cultural shift that occurs over a...
Music Matters
Josquin Des Prez High Renaissance Motets - Music Appreciation
Discover how Josquin des Prez developed compositional style during the High Renaissance period. Josquin des Prez followed composers like Du Fay and Ockeghem, and prepared the ground for Palestrina and his contemporaries. As a singer,...
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The Renaissance
A video entitled "The Renaissance" exploring several artistic and scientific advancements made during the Renaissance.
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Leonardo da Vinci: Artist, Inventor, and Renaissance Man
Leonardo da Vinci was a Renaissance genius known for his iconic painting, the Mona Lisa, housed in the Louvre Gallery. Beyond his artistic prowess, da Vinci was a visionary inventor and scientist, with designs for inventions like the...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Why is the Mona Lisa so famous? | Noah Charney
More than 500 years after its creation, Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" is arguably the world's most famous painting. Many scholars consider it an outstanding work of Renaissance art— but history is full of great paintings. So, how did...
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Langston Hughes & the Harlem Renaissance: Crash Course Literature 215
In which John Green teaches you about the poetry of Langston Hughes. Langston Hughes was a poet and playwright in the first half of the 20th century, and he was involved in the Harlem Renaissance, which was a cultural movement among...
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Pee Jokes, the Italian Renaissance, Commedia Dell'Arte: Crash Course Theater #12
This week, we're going to Italy for a Renaissance. The Middle Ages are over, and it's time to talk about the flourishing of art and humanism across Europe. Painting, sculpture, music, architecture, and plays with fart jokes were all...
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The Renaissance: Was it a Thing? - Crash Course World History
In which John Green teaches you about the European Renaissance. European learning changed the world in the 15th and 16th century, but was it a cultural revolution, or an evolution? We'd argue that any cultural shift that occurs over a...
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Restoring Florence's Artistic Treasures: Repairing the Damage of the 1966 Flood
This video highlights the ongoing restoration efforts in Florence, Italy, following the devastating floods in 1966. The city's prestigious state-run Obovicio Restoration Laboratories are working tirelessly to repair precious Renaissance...
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The Renaissance - The Protestant Reformation
No period of history can boast of greater beauty than The Renaissance. This was the period, from approximately early 14th century to late 16th century, that gave us Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Shakespeare. This video focuses on...
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Leonardo da Vinci: The Renaissance Man and Master of Illusions
This video provides a brief overview and tribute to Leonardo da Vinci, highlighting his significant contributions as a Renaissance thinker and artist. His works continue to be revered as cherished treasures in the modern age.
Great Big Story
Michelangelo's unexpected legacy, Paint by Numbers
New ReviewDiscover how Michelangelo inspired the creation of Paint by Numbers, revolutionizing art in homes worldwide.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Dissecting Botticelli's Adoration of the Magi - James Earle
The scene of the three wise men offering gifts to a newborn Jesus was widely painted during the Renaissance era, so how did painter Sandro Botticelli create a version that's still well known today? James Earle describes who and what set...
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Romania, Peles Castle
Pele_ Castle has a 3,200-square-metre floor plan with over 170 rooms, many with dedicated themes from world cultures. Themes vary by function or by style (Florentine, Turkish, Moorish, French, Imperial); all the rooms are extremely...
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Pyramid Shape Composition of the Mona Lisa
Mona Lisa's stature and expression seem normal today, but were rather groundbreaking at the time. Portraits of Italian women usually depicted them in profile or looking down. Never looking at the audience as da Vinci does with Mona Lisa....
Amor Sciendi
Virgin on the Rocks
Everyone talks about Leonardo da Vinci as the paradigm of the Renaissance Man. His painting The Virgin on the Rocks is perhaps the best example of his many talents on display.
Amor Sciendi
Virgin of the Rocks
Everyone talks about Leonardo da Vinci as the paradigm of the Renaissance Man. His painting The Virgin on the Rocks is perhaps the best example of his many talents on display. Co-written by Tina Bozsik
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Mona Lisa del Giocondo
In 1550, art historian Giorgio Vasari noted in his book on Renaissance artwork that, "Leonardo undertook to execute, for Francesco del Giocondo, the portrait of Mona Lisa, his wife." But there was dispute about Mona Lisa's true identity...
Amor Sciendi
Allegory of Calumny: Changing the Canon of Art History
Here is our argument that Botticelli's Calumny of Apelles is the greatest example of the High Renaissance. Another example of resurrection in 15th century.
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Judith Slaying Holofernes, Artemisia Gentileschi: Great Art Explained
Women were excluded from almost all cultural and social resources in the centuries from 1400 to 1900 when so much of the world's great art was created. And visual art was almost entirely a male industry before modern times. Having an...
Amor Sciendi
Battle of San Romano: Big Fluffy Hats
We discuss Uccello's 1453 Battle of San Romano, one of the earliest examples of Renaissance perspective, and attempt to gauge the volume of a huge hat.
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Caravaggio's Taking of Christ: Great Art Explained
The Taking of Christ is a painting by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. The subject is the moment that the son of God is betrayed with a kiss, and arrested in the garden of Gethsemane. Caravaggio’s approach to religious art was shocking...
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Who Stole the Mona Lisa?
In 1911, the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre. The theft drew more attention to the portrait at the same time that photography brought copies of the image to people all around the world. This surely raised the Mona Lisa's popularity,...
Amor Sciendi
The Birth of Venus and Phi
Trying to work through the rumor that the Golden Ratio appears in Botticelli's famous work "The Birth of Venus" The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli Works Cited Hagen, Rose-Marie, and Rainer Hagen. Masterpieces in Detail: What Great...