Introduction | Renaissance Recommendations
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- čas přidán 26. 03. 2020
- The Renaissance was defined by the rebirth of classical learning. People read Cicero and Lucretius, Ovid and Homer. Perspective was introduced into art. Rediscovery of Roman and Greek statues inspired some of the greatest artists of all time. But it was also a period of rapid political change and it saw some of the best minds of the last thousand years. The Medici and the Borgias reigned supreme. This was the age of Michelangelo, Da Vinci, Donatello, and Raphael. Join me for this history series about one of my favorite historical time periods!
Books I Mentioned:
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
The Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari
Renaissance People by Robert C. Davis and Beth Lindsmith
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I am so excited about this series! I recently discovered your channel and have been binge watching your videos while self-isolating and it’s really inspired me to want to read more books about and set in the renaissance. I actually just ordered a couple so I’m really looking forward to jumping in to them. :)
Oh wow, thank you! I hope you enjoy them. The Renaissance is a good time period to escape to, I think.
The Prince is one of the works from college that has really stuck with me, though Dante is great too. Wonderful video!
So happy I’ve stumbled across your channel!
Gems thank you!!
Im speechless..so glad I've found your channel.
Thank you!!
Omg I love your channel. Thank you so much! I love these mini history lectures followed by fiction recommendations. 🥹💜
Renaissance People looks good. Maybe it'll go on my list for when I next go Book Shopping!
I read The Prince at some point. It's the perfect length for its contents!
I think Renaissance People will be right up your alley!
This is a bit later than th period you're talking about but I've always loved the melodrama or Caravaggio. I've never actually read up much on art history, but I've always been interested in it so thanks so much for your recommendations!
Yes, I adore Caravaggio! I love the Medusa head shield. Melodrama is a good word for him, lol.
I thought that quote might be from The Lives of the Artists as soon as you started reading after hearing you talk so highly of it, definitely one to check out some day. Very much looking forward to future videos on this subject Jennifer.
Thanks, Jo!
The video I was looking for
Want to recommend Rebirth of gods wrote by Mereskovski, Russian autor and it is now
a classic. This is historycal fiction about Leonardo and mantioned Savonarola, Borgia, Medicci etc.
I read _Brunelleschi's Dome_ last year. I liked it, but there was a bit more engineering than I bargained for. _Renaissance People_ looks good. I was in a grad school class with a professor who was writing a Renaissance History text called _Dances Over Fire and Water_ .
My favorite piece of Renaissance Art is Michelangelo's Moses.
I've had that on my list for years. When I finally try it, I think I'll go for the audiobook. When I read Walter Isaacson's bio of Da Vinci, I ran into that same issue; too much technicality and engineering.
Excellent video and thanks for the recommendations! I read The Prince earlier this year and I was pleasantly surprised. I always heard it's one if the most evil works ever written, but I just didn't see that at all. Yes, there was some let's say unChristian advice, but at the same time, leaders are held to a different standard in some ways. Sometimes they have to get their hands dirty for the good of the people.
Yes, I was surprised by it too. I thought it would be 100% negative and pessimistic but some of the advice was actually rather temperate, lol. It definitely gets you to thinking about the pressures leaders are under and why they might make those decisions.
My favorite piece of renaissance art is a painting called The Entombment by Brescia. It is at the Metropolitan Museum in NYC.
That is gorgeous! Can't believe I've never seen it before.
It's mesmerizing. The people in the painting are looking at the viewer as if to say " Do you see what they have done to him?" The color used for Jesus is so realistic in it's depiction of death.
Do you have a video where it’s like “Top 100 books one should read” then? I would really be interested to someone who isn’t sure what to read
Could limit to 10
A video like this would be much appreciated.
Thanks for the interesting video. I ordered Lives of the Artists from my independent bookstore, The Bookworm in Omaha. They also delivered a book to me earlier this evening. We must remember our independent businesses who are having a tough time right now.
So true! I placed an order at my local independent bookstore too. I can't imagine how things are going for small businesses.
The Virgin of the Rocks by da Vinci.
That's probably my favorite Da Vinci!
@@jenniferbrooks Weirdly enough, I learned a lot about this painting from reading a heist mystery! A Virgin on the Rocks is a 1985 book by Michael Butterworth. It's set in Paris 1933 and is about a plan to exchange The Virgin of the Rocks for a forgery. It was actually pretty good. There was a lot of stuff about the painting. Enough to make me do some research into it. I haven't seen it in person, but would love to one day.