Episode Info: This episode will discuss what might just be the most important painting in Florence – Masaccio’s Holy Trinity in the church of Santa Maria Novella in Florence, Italy. Learn how this fresco, which was the first in history …
Episode Info: This is the second part of my two-part episode about Brunelleschi and the construction of the dome of Florence cathedral. Learn how the great architect out-smarted his competitors, won the contract for and then realized the world’s largest …
Episode Info: This episode examines the history leading up to the construction of Brunelleschi’s great cupola. From the structural design of the tribunes, to the decision to add a drum, to the dilemma of wooden centering, what happened before Brunelleschi …
Episode Info: From Donatello’s non-existent competition panel, to my favorite work of art by Michelangelo, to laser beams in art, this episode answers the very questions that you asked me about the great art of the Italian Renaissance.
Episode Info: This episode is the second part of a two-part episode about the Brancacci Chapel in Florence, Italy. It examines the paintings inside of the Brancacci Chapel and discusses the authorship of each, and those attributes that made Masaccio …
Episode Info: This episode explores the history and several key paintings of the revolutionary Brancacci Chapel in the church of Santa Maria Del Carmine in Florence, Italy. There is no better place in the world in which to illustrate the …
Episode Info: In part 2 of my conversation with best-selling author Ross King, we discuss one of his later works entitled Leonardo and the Last Supper, as well as his upcoming publication The Bookseller of Florence, about famous Renaissance book …
Episode Info: This episode is the first of a two-part interview with best-selling author Ross King, author of Brunelleschi’s Dome, Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling and other works addressing Renaissance subject matter.
Episode Info: This episode examines the construction history and architecture of the first Renaissance-style church ever built – the Basilica of San Lorenzo in Florence, Italy – which was designed by the great Filippo Brunelleschi. From modular systems, to the …
