Young Mozart: What is a "Genius"?
On Wednesday, January 24, 2018, Gil Harel, PhD kicked off the first in his new Mozart lecture series. Regarded as perhaps the ultimate "Wunderkind" (child ...
Darien Library
The Renaissance (In Our Time)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Renaissance, which was first given its role as the birth place of modern man by the nineteenth century historian Jacob ...
BBC Podcasts
Renaissance Maths (In Our Time)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Renaissance Mathematics. As with so many areas of European thought, mathematics in the Renaissance was a question of ...
BBC Podcasts
The Italian Renaissance
Chapter Two from Book Three, Part One of Bertrand Russell's "The History Of Western Philosophy" (1945).
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Bertoldo di Giovanni: The Renaissance of Sculpture in Medici Florence
Alexander Noelle, Anne L. Poulet Curatorial Fellow, provides an introduction to the exhibition 'Bertoldo di Giovanni: The Renaissance of Sculpture in Medici ...
The Frick Collection
Patronage and Vendetta in Renaissance Italy
Learn more about this work of art: http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/studiolo/studiolo.html The Gubbio Studiolo, Botticelli, and Lorenzo de' Medici: Patronage ...
The Met
Renaissance (Origins)
This video dates from about 1995 when I had a series of lectures recorded for broadcast on the college's TV network. Here are some notes about the origins of ...
Igorcats
Prof Dame Mary Beard - Tyranny and democracy
Professor Dame Mary Beard, Professor of Classics at Newnham College, University of Cambridge, delivers the Gifford Lecture "Tyranny and democracy". It is the ...
The University of Edinburgh
The Unchained Art of the Renaissance (Art History Documentary) | Perspective
Subscribe and click the bell icon to get more arts content every week: youtube.com/c/PerspectiveArts Waldemar Januszczak challenges the traditional notion of ...
Perspective
Machiavelli and the Italian City States (In Our Time)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the political philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli. In The Prince, Machiavelli's great manual of power, he wrote, "since men love as ...
BBC Podcasts
Our Fake History #105- Is the Renaissance a Myth? (Part I)
The Renaissance has been touted as one of the most important moments in European history. 19th century historians like Jules Michelet and Jakob Burckhardt ...
OUR FAKE HISTORY
The Way The Renaissance Influenced Our Eating Habits | Absolute History
During the fourteenth century the Renaissance started in Italy, and slowly spread throughout Europe. As shown in this episode, the refreshing Renaissance era ...
Absolute History
Andrew Graham Dixon. ‘Reflections on Childhood’
Alpine Fellowship
Italian Renaissance 2:22
The Villa represented, in architectural form, the cultural ideal of rural life and its frescoed interiors and gardens provided the setting for undisturbed intellectual ...
Carolyn McDowall
Brian Sewell in Florence & the Last of the Medici.
In episode 3 of his Grand Tour, Brian Sewell visits Florence. Includes the 'Last of the Medici' scene. Warning: This video contains personal opinions, do not ...
smartypants
Akala | Black & British, Race & Class in the Ruins of Empire Synopsis | The Search for Racial Equity
BAFTA and MOBO award-winning hip hop artist, writer/poet and historian Akala is a label owner and social entrepreneur who combines unique ...
Talks at Google
Top 15 Amazing Polyglots in History That Most People Didn’t Know About
Right now, more than half the people in the world are bilingual. That is, alongside their own mother tongue, they are able to speak at least one other language ...
Deep History
Let's Cook History: The Renaissance Meal (Food History Documentary) | Timeline
During the fourteenth century the Renaissance started in Italy, and slowly spread throughout Europe. As shown in this episode, the refreshing Renaissance era ...
Timeline - World History Documentaries
The Imagination of Leonardo da Vinci
Walter Isaacson is fascinated by innovators — the kinds of geniuses whose ideas have transformed industry, science, and society. Albert Einstein, Steve Jobs, ...
The Aspen Institute
English Theater After Shakespeare: Crash Course Theater #17
You can learn more about CuriosityStream at https://curiositystream.com/crashcourse This week on Crash Course Theater, Shakespeare is dead. Long live ...
CrashCourse
When did the News Start?
Join us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/originofeverything We all have news cycle fatigue. If it's not struggling to find reliable sources online, then it's ...
Origin Of Everything
From British to American Centuries: The Anglo-American Contribution to Western Civilization
This is the 7th in the Freedom Academy's "Odyssey of Western Civilization" series hosted by Victor Davis Hanson. In this video: Modern, multicultural America ...
American Freedom Alliance
Among Rare Men: Bronzino and Homoerotic Culture at the Medici Court
Learn more about this exhibition: The Drawings of Bronzino on view at the Met January 20, 2010 - April 18, 2010: http://tinyurl.com/metbronzino A lecture by Lisa ...
The Met
Food History: The Renaissance Meal | Let's Cook History | Free Documentary History
Let's Cook History - Episode 3: The Renaissance Meal | History Documentary In the Renaissance, with cities like Venice and Florence at the helm of European ...
Free Documentary - History
Secrets of Leonardo Da Vinci's Genius Mind | Massimo Polidoro
How did the genius mind of Leonardo Da Vinci think? What were the secrets that went into his amazing abilities? What went into his mind when he was faced ...
Center for Inquiry
History Department Panel Machiavelli's "The Prince" After 500 Years
Panelists will include: Michael Ignatieff, renowned author, academic, and public servant, James Johnson, a teacher in the History Department at Boston ...
Boston University
Steven Pinker: Progress, Despite Everything
Dr. Steven Pinker is the Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University, and has taught, additionally, at he has also taught at ...
Jordan B Peterson
Xavier F. Salomon: "Travels with Cagnacci"
Guido Cagnacci, whose Repentant Magdalene is the focus of the special exhibition, was one of the most eccentric painters of seventeenth-century Italy.
The Frick Collection
The Italian Renaissance
Mr. Colicchio teaches a lesson the Italian Renaissance.
Cj Colicchio
RENAISSANCE: Andrew Graham-Dixon - Episode 6 of 6 - The End of the Renaissance?
Andrew Graham-Dixon's 6 episode (each of about 59 minutes duration) series on Renaissance art has never been released on DVD, nor even on videotape, ...
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An Impetuous Genius: Drawings by Jacopo Tintoretto
Celebrating the opening of Drawing in Tintoretto's Venice, John Marciari, Charles W. Engelhard Curator of Drawings and Prints—and the curator of the ...
The Morgan Library & Museum
The (Un)Familiar: Rethinking the Italian Renaissance Nude with Jill Burke
Looking at Renaissance art through the eyes of a 15th century Italian.
LaVoceDiNewYork
That Time Pablo Picasso was Arrested for Stealing the Mona Lisa
Subscribe for new videos every day! Hit the sub button above. In this video: Leonardo da Vinci started work on the Mona Lisa around 1503, thought to be a ...
Highlight History
Conversations With History: The Ascent of Money
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Harvard historian Niall Ferguson for a discussion of his new book, "The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the ...
University of California Television (UCTV)
Simon Schama: Wordy
Simon Schama is a British broadcaster and scholar who is famous for his limitless energy and grand-scale intellectual undertakings. He's a familiar figure on the ...
WheelerCentre
Naples and beyond: patterns of Renaissance
Bianca de Divitiis, Associate Professor of Art History, Univerisità degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, presents a lecture entitled, "Naples and beyond: patterns of ...
Art History
TUSCANYNESS (2018) — A documentary on Tuscan Architecture [Eng/Chn Subs]
Tuscanyness is a nonprofit movie of 120g, a Cultural Association based in Pisa, Italy, founded by a group of young architects and engineers who share the same ...
120g
12 Most Amazing Ancient Inventions That Were Way Ahead Of Their Time
http://bit.ly/AmazingStock There are inventors, and then there are visionaries. An inventor is someone who can take existing materials and technology and make ...
Amazing Stock
Where Did The Vampire Myth Come From? | Vampire Island | Timeline
The legend of blood sucking vampires has captured peoples' imagination for generations. A crack team of archaeologists and forensic scientists have ...
Timeline - World History Documentaries
Did Shakespeare Really Write Shakespeare? by Tom Regnier, introduced by Joseph Adler
Although English professors are adamant that a glover's son from a rural English town was the author of such plays as Hamlet, King Lear, and A Midsummer ...
Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship
10 Tips From Da Vinci
10 tips from Leonardo Da Vinci, the famous Italian polymath.
Fire of Learning
Appearance and Physical Reality by Carlo Rovelli
Can we “see” photons, black holes, curved spacetime, quantum jumps, the expansion of the universe, or quanta of space? Physics challenges appearances ...
Darwin College Lecture Series