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The Renaissance Times
By Cameron Reilly & Ray Harris
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August 17, 2024Renaissance #197 – The Prince’s Crusade (The Crusades part 6) The failure of the People’s Crusade didn’t stop the overall appetite in Europe for pillaging the Holy Land. They still had the Prince’s Crusade. A bunch of rich young men, their vassals and hired mercenaries set out to pillage Jerusalem and anything else appetising along the way. Even, perhaps Constantinople.Oh dear!This page contains Member's Only content... and you aren't logged in! Sucks to be you, seriously, because the content you are missing is really funny. And clever. And probably very, very sexy. So sign up now and your life will be improved substantially.
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...more July 15, 2024Renaissance #195 – The Holy Goose and the Holy Goat (The Crusades part 4) At the end of April in 1096, a priest by the name of Volkmar, a monk called Gottschalk, and an army from the Rhineland led by a Count Emich set off on the First Crusade with tens of thousands of soldiers and enthusiastic pilgrims… following a goose that had been inspired by God… and a holy goat. Their first order of business was to kill as many Jews as possible. Why? Because something something Jesus.Oh dear!This page contains Member's Only content... and you aren't logged in! Sucks to be you, seriously, because the content you are missing is really funny. And clever. And probably very, very sexy. So sign up now and your life will be improved substantially.
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...more January 08, 2022#138 – Toby Lester, Da Vinci’s Ghost – Leonardo da Vinci Part 27 Our guest today, Toby Lester, has worked as a refugee affairs officer for the United Nations, helped with programmes in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, undertaken Peace Corps work in Yemen. He has written also extensively for national publications, including the Smithsonian, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, The American Scholar, The Wilson Quarterly, BBC Magazine, and the London Times. He also worked at The Atlantic in a variety of editorial capacities: including as the managing editor. Today he serves part-time as a senior editor for Harvard Business Review and edits books for writers, but he is himself a writer of two wonderful history books, The Fourth Part of the World (2009) and Da Vinci’s Ghost (2011) which is about Leonardo’s Vitruvian Man.
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...more December 27, 2021#137 – Get Your Rocks Off – Leonardo da Vinci Part 26 During his 20 years in Milan, Leonardo, the laziest genius ever, only finished three lousy paintings…. aaaaaand two of them are murals. Only one is in a frame – VIRGIN OF THE ROCKS. He liked it so much, he painted it again, 25 years later. Well…. There’s a little more to the story, actually....more December 10, 2021#136 – Julia & The Vatican Taking a short break from Leonardo, our guest today is Julia Charity, an official Vatican tour guide! Julia, who originally hails from the UK, tells us how she ended up as a Vatican tour guide and about some of her favourite art on display in the Pope’s fortress, including “The Last Judgment” by Michelangelo, the “Transfiguration” by her “Renaissance husband”, Raphael, and the Borgia Apartments. If you want to book a Vatican tour with Julia, you can email here at theacharity[at]gmail.com.
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...more April 29, 2021#120 – Leonardo da Vinci Part 13 – Curtis Wong Curtis Wong has had an incredible career. He has produced critically acclaimed educational CD-ROMs at Corbis and the Voyager Co., as well as the definitive editions of feature films for the Criterion Collection. He ran the Content Group at Intel, and was granted many patents at Microsoft Research. Today he joins us to tell some stories from his career, including his groundbreaking work with Bill Gates to produce the digital version of Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex Leicester.The post #120 – Leonardo da Vinci Part 13 – Curtis Wong appeared first on The Renaissance Times.
...more April 01, 2021#118 – Leonardo da Vinci Part 11 – Matthew Landrus We chat with one of the world’s leading authorities on Leonardo da Vinci – Matthew Landrus from Oxford University, author of Leonardo da Vinci’s Giant Crossbow.
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...more January 01, 2021Where are rest of the episodes? If you’re wondering “where are rest of the episodes?”, they are on our website as part of our membership program.
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...more December 24, 2020#111 – Leonardo da Vinci Part 4 – Manscaping Jesus Leonardo’s earliest surviving work of art is a landscape sketch of Vinci in his notebook dating from 1473 when he was 21 years old.
The earliest surviving painting is BAPTISM OF CHRIST, a collaboration with his old master, Verrocchio (as seen in Marketing The Messiah).
On this episode, we go deep on both works of art, looking at what made Leonardo da Vinci different from his contemporaries.
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...more December 13, 2020#110 – Leonardo da Vinci Part 3 – Frankenstein’s Monster Leonardo’s first known artwork is a Frankenstein monster and he invents sfumato.
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