EXPLORING ART

Episode 98 | 24 Days, Alexander the Great, and Modest Nudity


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In this week’s episode, we talk about how Handel produced an Oratorio in 24 days with almost no sleep and food, Alexander the Great and the probable truth of the Minotaur, and the Modest Nudity of the newborn Venus. Maybe Handel was in some stimulant? Perhaps the Minotaur was formulated by an exaggeration of a tradition in wearing horse costumes? Was Botticelli a woman? The Venus alluding to Genesis from the Bible?

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