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The Renaissance Unchained

Four-part series in which Waldemar Januszczak challenges the traditional view of art's most important epoch - the Renaissance.

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  • The Renaissance myth: Waldemar on how we got art history wrong

  • Palissy's creepy crawlies — Hell, Snakes and Giants

    Duration: 1:38
  • The conquests of Zeus — Silk, Sex and Sin

    Duration: 1:30
  • Bonfire of Vanities — Whips, Deaths and Madonnas

    Duration: 1:12
  • Two thousand dead squirrels — Gods, Myths and Oil Paints

    Duration: 1:04
  • The Renaissance Unchained: Episode 1 — Gods, Myths and Oil Paints

  • The Renaissance Unchained

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