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?
@jamesallison487513 күн бұрын
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.
@yazanasad781123 күн бұрын
Reassured that I could skip stories phew
@irener189224 күн бұрын
Engaging lecture! So fun to watch. Thank you.
@markprice748Ай бұрын
Infamy! Either you are plagiarising John Andrews, or vice-versa. Entire sections are word-for-word. Whose lecture is this, really? - kzbin.info/www/bejne/nKXKpoKYd5yFb5I
@__softspot__Ай бұрын
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!
@JanetteHeffernanАй бұрын
Bravo!
@randyklinger76492 ай бұрын
LOVE this!
@bobsmithdesign2 ай бұрын
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. 🙏
@GeryNH2 ай бұрын
Really enjoy and appreciate the lectures by this gentleman. I hope you had a lovely wine-tasting trip!
@GeryNH2 ай бұрын
Really enjoy and appreciate the lectures by this gentleman. I hope you had a lovely wine-tasting trip!
@dejavoodo72 ай бұрын
Florence is Jewish influenced
@dejavoodo72 ай бұрын
Not our people goinm
@dejavoodo72 ай бұрын
Florence embraced the Jews yes
@dejavoodo72 ай бұрын
So is Florence a Jew stronghold
@davidhussein63832 ай бұрын
Very muddled presentation, he obviously has exceptional knowledge but lacks the skill to impart it in an organised and interesting way.
@johnlaw25452 ай бұрын
Very interesting and revealing. An excellent selection.
@kjkeating2 ай бұрын
Fabulous presentation! Bravo!
@tjgb1002 ай бұрын
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 😂
@elvusador2 ай бұрын
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..
@rtrout42033 ай бұрын
Excellent presentation on an interesting topic. Thank you for being so respectful about Catholicism. It's very much appreciated.
"COVID-19 Get the latest information from the WHO about coronavirus. Learn more See more resources on Google" Nanny state morons just can't let go
@randyklinger76493 ай бұрын
It's medici not medishi
@knowone35293 ай бұрын
Great lawyer, crappy ships captian
@mountainechoes18863 ай бұрын
You know who else they called queen of heaven. Istar the babylonian god of fertility
@karolinailic28683 ай бұрын
👏👏👏👏👏
@renzo64903 ай бұрын
These wonderful lectures are spoiled by poor audio. Get it fixed !
@TheBiflorence3 ай бұрын
Dear Renzo, thank you for your feedback. We are doing our best to fix the audio of the recordings.
@renzo64903 ай бұрын
Too bad. The audio is terrible.
@TheBiflorence3 ай бұрын
Dear Renzo, thank you again for your feedback. We are working hard to fix the audio of our recordings
@johnlaw25453 ай бұрын
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.
@user-ii3pu6vp2f3 ай бұрын
a comment for almost all biflorence videos.... please fix recordings... audio is very bad ...
@antun884 ай бұрын
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.
@johnlaw25454 ай бұрын
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?
@kaarlimakela34134 ай бұрын
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.
@kaloarepo2884 ай бұрын
I thought Venice was the most successful? They even printed books in Hebrew there.
@Polit_Burro4 ай бұрын
@@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.
@kaloarepo2884 ай бұрын
@@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!)
@Polit_Burro4 ай бұрын
@@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.
@kaloarepo2884 ай бұрын
@@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.
@charlieclark9834 ай бұрын
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).
@nirv4 ай бұрын
22:20 - I've got to find that.
@huiawalker2034 ай бұрын
Remarable the father made the mother go to debtors prison
@huiawalker2034 ай бұрын
What an interesting lecture
@delphine23104 ай бұрын
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.
@dominiquegerault97604 ай бұрын
I read "Rapides" that is a good novel.
@randyklinger76494 ай бұрын
Great!! Many thanks!
@johnlaw25455 ай бұрын
Cennino Cennini compared some aspects of painting with 'cookery'.
@margaretsedy79495 ай бұрын
Also very disturbed by the Savonarola.
@margaretsedy79495 ай бұрын
How frustrating when people ask questions without having done any studying first .. who would attend without having basic understanding. I cringed at that first question posed to you. Professore Ricciardelli, I look forward to attending one of your lectures in the future. I am interested in the cross-section with the Borgias; and the later lineage, specifically Catherine de Medici and what transpired between her birth and being saved by her uncle, a medici pope. And leaving for France.
@gators272822 күн бұрын
You sound like a pompous fool. Asking questions without studying its how most people learn. They develop a curiosity for a subject or are forced to learn about it in academia and they listen to a discussion on the subject then that gives them questions that some one who has studied a subject may already know. The fool is not the one who asks questions but the one who thinks he knows and mocks those who seek to learn.
@SamanthaRobinson-td3ly5 ай бұрын
The date you had on your slide for the visit made by Queen Victoria is incorrect