Conversations: Lessons from the Renaissance, w/ Ross King
In this illuminating episode of History Shorts, Peter welcomes acclaimed historian and author Ross King, the bestselling writer behind Brunelleschi's Dome, Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling, Leonardo and the Last Supper, and most recently, The Shortest History of Italy. In this wide-ranging conversation, Ross shares what drew him to Renaissance Florence and 19th-century France, and why these moments of artistic revolution continue to resonate centuries later. Ross reveals how the Renaissance wasn't about rejecting the past, but rather reimagining it. We explore how timeless works of art…
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