Very interesting, my fam is ghibelline and fascinating to find more history italy. They ruled much of northern Italy for sev hundred years. King of Spain was very threatened by them. A lot has to do with the templars. And the 1307 arrest in france. Yet in Italy ghibellines were pro templar. So in my opinion according to our history this is the root cause of war between the Guelphs. The ghibellines were about preserving the sacred royal bloodlines of the empire, and the Guelph were pro pope, hence the constant war between the 2. Btw, Nobility comes from the oneness of state and church, so people who became certain bishops were also the princes. These same ecclesiastical bishops were the ones who crowned the emperors with the iron crown of Lombardy. And this is the only crown of Italian royalty. So the power to crown emperors is very threatening to the pope which was in france at the time. Our fam was exiled from Brescia an went to Milan under the protection of the visconte that ruled there. Because of this the emperor sent an army to Brescia a few years later to massacre the Guelphs. Idk how many know that the pope's were jus puppets of the medici bankers. I'm not defending elitism yet royal blood is very sacred thing. And is ancient with magic. I understand there's a misuse of the term Nobility and im learning a lot from your video and your accent is lovely❤. Ciao ciao🇮🇹💯💎
I discovered more precious gems of Florence from the lecture.I would love to see miraculous painting of The Annunciation in the church of Ss.Annunziata...
Such ethereal beauty in situ transcends its art - the beauty is the faith experienced by virtue of its art - and the paradox lives. Thank you for the careful reconstructions herein.💐
Could we - possibly - consider thinking for ourselves as unique human beings - and stop - automatically - saying, to every question, "That's a great question." Can we not stay consciously awake?
When you finished I was out of breath! You’ve nailed the whole situation. Vasari was a second rate painter who hung his hat on “The Lives “. But your correlation of the frescoes with the Medici is brilliant. I’ve stayed with you through a plate of baked penne and salad , and did not miss a word. Great job and work. Can’t say enough. Thank you.
Infamy! Either you are plagiarising John Andrews, or vice-versa. Entire sections are word-for-word. Whose lecture is this, really? - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ftguObB7R90.html
He's so funny!! I feel like so many jokes went over his students head 😭 he deserved a better crowd!! Jokes aside, very informative while still easy to listen to, very much appreciate the great content! ❤ thank you for posting this!
Just got back from Florence and a walk up inside the Duomo. Bought a book in the gift shop (“Brunelleschi’s Dome” by Roberto Corazzi”) and now I’m obsessed. I have Ross’s book in my Amazon cart, and I stumbled across this lecture here. Fascinating. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and passion. 🙏
18 mins in and all i see is an extremely biased view against Cosimo, his mother and religion. So a Catholic guy cant ride a horse and have other interests? Plus all the info so far can easily be found online. Has this guy ever interacted with a religious person? I guess he thinks we are all praying all day and witch hunting at night or something 😂
Please do something about improving the audio on these recordings. I can't even listen to this one it's so bad. Such a shame for the lecture 'sounds' like a very interesting one..
An excellent, fascinating, extremely well-informed, thought provoking lecture. From a dim corner of memory, Brunelleschi was working on an altarpiece in Pistoia, as that city's domed baptistry was being built, but I may be wrong.
So here is where disgusting hermeticism/mysticism/neoplatonism entered Europe like a silent plague. This strain of thought that inspired 19th-century esoteric occultism and culminated with the Nazis.
Fascinating subject/source. The diplomatic correspondence associated with Lorenzo a 'precedent'? More specifically, anything on Mary Queen of Scots and the failed marriage plans for/of Elizabeth I?
Skipping the q and a. Two things. 1. I had hoped to hear more of the social breakdown of literacy levels in the Italian language at that time. Because literacy in England connected to being able to read the protestant Bible in English. The Vatican was stuck on Latin until the 1960s lol. 2. That begs my other question. You did address it near the end. I looked it up. The advent of the printing press. One tidbit I found says that by 1500, Vienna was the most successful printing center in W Europe. That doesn't mean newspapers. But I see it's another fellow's bailiwick that you leave to him at the end. Enjoyed very much.
@@kaloarepo288 by the year 1500 most major cities of Europe had thriving printing industries. Venice, as a center of mercantile activity, was particularly notable for its variety of published works and the innovation of its typography.
@@Polit_Burro And how was Chinese printing different to European? We all know that China had printing hundreds of years before Europe but were they the same type of thing (No pun intended!)
@@kaloarepo288 No, Chinese Lithography was different than the movable (cast) types, but even those were predated by bronze cast type produced on what is today the Korean peninsula.
@@Polit_Burro Did you know that there is a cathedral in north east Italy in Cividale del Friuli (150 kilometers from Venice) that has an altar inscription dating to about 1200 AD and this inscription was done by metal punches. It's called the altar of Pellegrino II.? It shows that Europeans were aware of printing technology long before Gutenburg . But I suppose that Gutenburg used the wine press model to come up with his invention.
I'm sorry the speaker is so condescending about the family. To dismiss Façade is simply ignorant. Edith, too, had to self-promote, because she was poor. His attitude sours an otherwise interesting talk (badly recorded).
thank you so much for this wonderful conference. May I ask about the position which was recommended to keep on bed, couldn't sleep without holding a "sitting" position in order to avoid death ? reason why on paintings they always seem to be sitting rather than lying.
