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Renaissance & Baroque Masters
Leonardo, Michelangelo, Shakespeare and Caravaggio: the lives behind the masterpieces of the Renaissance and the Baroque.
- Renaissance
- Art
- Masters
- Italy
- Creativity
Some of the stories included
MichelangeloThe story of the sculptor who painted the Sistine ceiling, and how his work changed what art could do.
The Story of CaravaggioThe life of the painter Caravaggio, whose violent life ended in 1610 after he killed a man and became a fugitive from Rome.
Artemisia Gentileschi: The Trial Behind the PaintingIn 1612 Artemisia Gentileschi endured torture to testify against her rapist, then painted Judith beheading a general.
Leonardo da Vinci — Genius of the RenaissanceThe life of Leonardo da Vinci, from illegitimate son in Vinci to the Last Supper, the Mona Lisa, his anatomical studies and his final years in France.
The Creation of Don QuixoteHow Miguel de Cervantes, a soldier and tax collector, wrote the world's first modern novel after conceiving it in a Seville prison.
Machiavelli and The PrinceDismissed in 1512 and tortured in 1513, Machiavelli wrote The Prince to reveal how power is truly won and kept.
William ShakespeareThe life of William Shakespeare, from Stratford glover's son to London playwright, the Globe and Hamlet, and the 1623 First Folio that preserved 18 of his plays.
Brunelleschi's DomeHow Filippo Brunelleschi built Florence's iconic dome, a 43-metre-wide marvel, using a double shell and no ground-based scaffolding.
Han van Meegeren Fooled Göring With a Fake VermeerA forger who baked fake Vermeers sold one to Göring for 137 looted paintings, then escaped treason by painting another.
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BeowulfThe epic of Beowulf was preserved only because a scholar copied the fire-damaged manuscript in 1786 before its pages crumbled away.
DostoevskyFyodor Dostoevsky's life, from a mock execution in 1849 to his masterpiece 'Crime and Punishment', was shaped by suffering and faith.
Pablo Picasso and the Invention of CubismHow Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque invented Cubism together, from Les Demoiselles d'Avignon in 1907 to collage, until the First World War ended their partnership in 1914.
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