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Peter Chiene Lecture: The Encyclopedism of Renaissance Humanist Jurists - Xavier PrévostThe event was hosted by the Centre for Legal History. Professor Xavier Prévost, junior member of the Institut universitaire de France and professor of legal history at the University of…
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Women in Early Modern Europe: Week 1 IntroductionAn introduction covering historiography and some broad themes of the course on women in early modern Italy.
From Lucinda Byatt
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The State as a Work of Art - Introduction Week 1An introductory pre-recorded lecture to the course "The State as a Work of Art" in Northern Italy
From Lucinda Byatt
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10.2c Worlds of Shame- Renaissance Understandings of RaceIn this lecture we look at how race is constructed in Renaissance Italy, and consider some portraits of white women and their non-white servants to emerge from Titian's workshop from the 1520s…
From Jill Burke
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10.2b African Presence in Renaissance EuropeThis video considers black Africans in Renaissance Europe, particularly Italy.
From Jill Burke
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10.2a Worlds of Wonder: Renaissance European EthnographiesThis lecture considers how Europeans understood the peoples of the new world, India and sub-Saharan Africa, showing how they lumped together these peoples in a rather imprecise way, and were curious…
From Jill Burke
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10.1c Women, Textiles and NatureIn this video, we consider how understanding art differently can allow us to delve into the creative lives of women in the past. Needlework was an area that was increasingly associated with women…
From Jill Burke
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10.1b Renaissance Women, Nature and NurtureWhat features characterised femininity in the Renaissance? This video considers the relationship between gender and sex, considers Judith Butler's ideas about 'performing' gender, and…
From Jill Burke
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10.1a The Woman QuestionThis video introduces Renaissance Feminism, including major scholars and major female painters, sculptors and architects who worked between 1520 and 1650.
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9.3c Naked Women and Potent MenSo what about the female nudes that populate art galleries nowadays? How were they justified within this Christian context? This lecture considers how female nudes provided an opportunity for male…
From Jill Burke
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9.3b The Male Nude and the 'Perfect Body'Renaissance people were puzzled about why the nude body was so popular in classical times, but they worked out their own justifications for depicting naked men - the male body was made in 'the…
From Jill Burke
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9.3a How to See People Naked in Renaissance ItalyWe start by climbing up the scaffolding of the SIstine Chapel in July 1512 with Federico Gonzaga, to have a look at all the naked bodies that Michelangelo painted on the vault of the Pope's…
From Jill Burke
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Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art 2Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists was written in 1550, with a much enlarged edition in 1568. It was the first recogniaable "art history" book and still influences the way art…
From Jill Burke
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JB Vasari and the Invention of Art 1Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists was written in 1550, with a much enlarged edition in 1568. It was the first recognisable "art history" book and still influences the way art…
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