The Renaissance - The Age of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci (2/2) | DW Documentary

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For this crazy age, this is an absolutely astonishing documentary. Inspiring yet not pompous. Truthful without need to stick to conventions established on wrong conclusions of our ancestors. I particularly enjoyed the bit about Colombus. Well done!

[@dunique26]

Yes, the columbus part was my favorite as well. If they would have mentioned his perversions as well would have been priceless...

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Thank you all very much for this documentary of the Renaissance!

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Yep is really an extraordinary its 1 of my favourite topics in history.

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I am glad I stumbled upon this short, two-part documentary. It was done exceptionally well. Great work.

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You took the words out of my mouth.

[@rodrigo9065]

is full of mistakes...

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[@708sal123]

I’ve only watched the first 10 min and there are so many errors. It’s incredible. Da Vinci earned money through patronage of powerful families not solely through painting. He was payed handsomely for his works in engineering, architecture, and for inventions of war. He is considered a Renascence man because of his mind. He delved into Botany, Anatomy, hydrodynamics, Human Flight, and even robotics. What made him such a man to remember is He did not separate the Sciences from Art.

[@conmallidis5827]

I could not agree more with your view. I did sit through both episodes, unfortunately there wasn’t an improvement. The writer continued to press myths instead of truths

[@lauramipe2955]

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[@joalexsg9741]

Thank you so much for this wonderful and truly educational doc! Downloading its two parts and sharing as well! By the way, the narrator´s British accent is not only charming but one of the clearest I've ever heard, which is not usually the case in what come to my ears, but for few exceptions:-)

[@aijazahmed2018]

Thank You DW for bringing The Renaissance back to life as a history enthusiastic and refreshed my italy visit of 2015. I must admire the music, the art, the curiosity and most importantly the self believe were depicted beautifully in this video I was literally in tears in the last part of the video, merci beaucoup! ☺But what was the catalyst for it, what is the "Renaissance factor"? The Renaissance is an epoch unique in human history: Never before have art, culture, economics and science developed so rapidly within a single century. We search for the "Renaissance factor", that combination of influences that triggered a pivotal period in history. It is a journey through time from Ancient Rome to the Crusades and the Black Death in the 14th century, events that defined the developments of the Renaissance. We travel with Michelangelo to the major construction site that was to become St. Peter’s Basilica, to the banking houses of the Medicis and the workshop of Johannes Gutenberg. We examine some of the many innovations of the Renaissance such as linear perspective, the printing press and double-entry bookkeeping. We ask what these achievements mean to us today and how - almost half a millennium later - we continue to benefit from the "Renaissance factor." And we delve deeper with the help of spectacular reenactments and our "special investigators" - modern-day trendsetters, scientists, business tycoons, fashion designers and artists. ☺

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[@robertruggiero9999]

Let’s correct Mr Roeck’s comments on Columbus: 1. He did discover the “new world” for the Europeans as this world was unknown to them; 2. He did not cause the catastrophe of South America. This was caused by the greed of the Spanish conquistadores

[@sandoristar7597]

"For people who accept not to believe but know" the renaissance in one line

[@dan-drop9398]

Painter , Engineer, Architect, Sculpture, Scientist and most of all a Ninja turtle

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I loved the Ninja Turtles! 😂

[@saywhatagain6176]

i get now why he was the coolest one of them all, plus he had the most baddass weapon the numb chucks!!!

[@5Gazto]

Yeah, Donatello, Michelangelo, Rafael and Leonardo (the leader of the band.)

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Recommendable! Presented a few things I did not know

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Excellent .. Thank you DW ... from India

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Yt users tend to recognize the greatness of a video when it's about something in history that doesn't hurt their feelings because it has no side in the present. But if the video is about something which does influences us now, they say the documentary is biased or that it's fake news.

[@dunique26]

The cry baby generation is wht i named them👶👶👶👶

[@roadcrossing4965]

nice and fantastic piece of documentary on renaissance, though i am a late viewer of it. nicely explained and portrayed the the happenings in that period of time with much labour and caution.thanks to the creators of the piece which will help millions like me to know about the giant happenings in Europe.

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[@rodthelimey]

Wow. This 2nd video is just as mind-blowing as the 1st.

[@elmiranewyorkstate6855]

Great. I liked the perspective. Well done explanation of the timeline.

[@sthenrymary]

Enjoyed hearing the epic achievements of renowned artists -Donatello, Da Vinci, Michelangelo, etc. They were the Renaissance men.

[@imperatordei6615]

Was there a Raphael? ( just a TMNT fan question)

[@imperatordei6615]

@Setsuo Nakano I never heard of him then. What was he most known for?

[@28russ]

@@imperatordei6615 Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, known as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. He was also revered for his amazing technique with the sai and pizza eating skills Wikipedia

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[@davidgonzalez965]

"It's a story of people who did not want to belive, but to know, and who accepted no limits to their quest"

[@povpooh]

Awesome work ! Thank you so much DW !

[@jeffreykalb9752]

The keeping of time was a medieval fascination, as was the obsession with mechanics. Every town wanted a mechanical clock. It was a matter of status. When Bessarion fled at the fall of Constantinople and brought with him the remains of the ancient Greek culture, he remarked that the West was already far ahead of the Byzantines in the mechanical arts. The "Renaissance" was in many respects a retrograde movement, and did not really reflect the genuine culture that was beginning to bloom. Those who wish to understand should read Spengler's "Decline of the West."

[@ninnakriss]

I agree! Probably becuse i have read Spengler.

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Yep, so TRUE 👏🍻

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tolle Sprecherin. da macht es Freude zuzuhören. Kein mit erhobenem Finger - predigen -. aber auch kein - we have a problem-, das mann so oft hört. - chapeau -.

[@ajarnwuhsih]

"All roads lead to Rome," but what financed its construction and maintenance? @17:18 "the Far East" > Asia > Au-stron(g)nesia the home of the ancient navigators, builders(architects & engineers), farmers and traders and shamans, I was told. Renaissance is just a part of a great cycle being turned by the hidden hand of the all-seeing eye.

[@PotPoet]

The Mona Lisa was a painting whose subject was Leonardo's servant/lover who was named Sali. He appears in drag in many of Leonardo's paintings, each time with a different hair style, and aged according to his age at the time of the painting. Even the title of the painting, "Mona Lisa", is a dual anagram for "Noma Sali", "name Sali". Sali remained with Leonardo and lived with him for his whole life until Leonardo died. He was willed half of Leonardo's estate. Leonardo created weaponry and siege engines for Machiavelli. His living was made as an artist and as an engineer. He also created amazing anatomy drawings based on his patient vivisection of corpses which were supplied to him under questionable circumstances. Certain aspects of Leonardo's life were considered unsavory by later historians and have been generally covered up. Modern scholars are less squeamish about facing the facts of Leonardo's extraordinary life.

[@mrssmith3872]

Mona Lisa was never finished! He worked on it right up until his death. He gave it to his companion .

[@ane-louisestampe7939]

It's actually a pathetic painting - and only became famous because it was stolen from the Louvre in 1911. If it'd been an old shoe, the burglary would have made the shoe famous.

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@The Random Reign of Vanilla Now, there's an argument! ???

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@@ane-louisestampe7939 calling somethin unviersal claimed as visionary art of piece ow could be pathetic? if something dont suit you doesnt mean its a shit,first lesson for your life.

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OH.MY.DAYS WOULD YOU EVER STOP BREATHING INTO THE MIC?!!!

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Such a beautifully done documentary!

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DW great work!

[@Ddub1083]

"The renaissance was when people started keeping track of time." - facepalm.... totally right and its just a strange coincidence that their hours and minute system was created over 2000 years earlier, they just didnt start using it until the 16th century. The invention of mechanical timepieces is not when humans started keeping time....

[@petterilindholm4994]

was when PEOPLE started keeping track, they're saying, meaning "normal" people, I guess that being the bourgeoisie of the cities. Ofcourse they don't think that that was the first time that time was ever measured.

[@Ddub1083]

@@petterilindholm4994 haha sure fair enough... but I felt like bein a bit hyperbolic :)

[@J.Hermansson]

The correct statement would be -"this is when people started keepingf track of time, again." since ancient people kept track of time, and the solar system long before the renaissance.

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Ddub, you're telling your true age🙃...you and that other one in here🙃🤐

[@StanleyKowalski.]

6:02. 4 wheel vehicle on the bottom left, cant move forward or backward if a person operates the mechanism in the middle of wheels. wheels will move opposite directions , not same direction to move it forward ( or backward)

[@eraoflearning6908]

Quest of human can never stop. And repeated renessaince must be the characteristic of human society

[@AuhSojmusic]

I’m afraid the quest of humanity has turned into a questioning of humanity and replacing it with technology. After all A.I is much smarter than a clumsy mortal human. We’ll let the A.I decide 4 us.

[@haidengeary8277]

@@AuhSojmusic Throughout history we have advanced, we have always had technology. Tools, for example, are a technology. AI will not be the problem, like any technology, what matters is how we choice to use it. The OP hit the nail on head, brilliant quote.

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I think youre ressented.

[@indoororchidsandtropicals358]

I don't think most people today understand the gravity of saying the earth was not the center of the universe back then.

[@safeysmith6720]

I see what you did there! You did MEAN to do that right?..

[@nina-ciara]

@@safeysmith6720 I would like to know what kind of agenda YOU are pursuing? What he/she meant, according to you? You are very enigmatic..... tell us....

[@aaronrubin1591]

@@nina-ciara He's mentioning the pun and wondering whether OP meant the pun or it was just a convenience of the topic.

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@@aaronrubin1591 🤣😂you didn't get it, do you?

[@aaronrubin1591]

@@nina-ciara Damn, went right over my head :(

[@dunique26]

Thank you for telling the TRUTH about wht Columbus "discovery" really did and did not do. You have gained a subscriber, for your honesty...

[@mspoints4fre123]

Such an evil dude. Said some random person living in North America benefiting from Colombus' actions every day sitting on their high horse.

[@dewdop]

@@mspoints4fre123 cope and begone,, Columbus simp.

[@marcobelli6856]

If you are a native respect. If you are white American either you Go back to Europe or shut up about colombus you have to thank him

I personally think the Mona Lisa's smile is a flawed focal point. A pinch point that slightly collapses inward. An unintended consequence is the illusion of a smile. Something Leonardo was still working on. I say this because the Mona Lisa's eyes are not smiling in unison. We are facinated with the painting in the same way as we would be with a slightly assymetrical face, a quirk we cannot figure out. There you go. I am calling it.

[@Tashosugar18]

20:30 my people were slaughtered and killed it wasn't no disease that took over 60 million people. It was savagery and destiny.

[@777peacelove]

I love Michelangelo, he really inspires me. And I feel honored and glad to have seen his art in real.🙏 I also have much respect for Leonardo da Vinci. 🙏 They were very intelligent. They really worked from out of their feelings and put their heart and soul into their art, and everything they did. And they were spiritual as well.

[@ervinreyna1084]

It was very interesting. Thank you for this amazing documentary.

[@shahajic3389]

Many things were left unanswered and me puzzled too like about start of Renaissance ( from which place, when, important people in this etc), but overall it was captivating. Good work.

[@nehapande1065]

Please watch Part I.

[@marcobelli6856]

Because this is Part 2 Bro all of that is in the Part 1

[@safeysmith6720]

This was pretty good!

[@vanhung2210]

a very inspiring documentary

[@spicyspecial333]

Although interesting, I found this documentary too declarative and speculative rather than factual. Time keeping was one such topic, but also the accusations that Da Vinci was openly homosexual, when in fact, like other people of history, he simply didn't talk about his sexuality. The ONLY reference to ANY recorded possible sexual encounter was that of a sodomy charge that was dropped due to lack of sufficient evidence, when at the time, people were known to accused as a way to be 'put in their place'. So, as is the fashion with todays parlance, people ('scholars'), automatically assert the negative. Imagine being accused of something, having been cleared of it because their was no way to prove or disprove something and 500 years later, this is the thing that scholars are determining as your legacy. Da Vinci may or may not have been a homosexual, but its weird that with such little to no evidence of proving either, people draw conclusions. I think this says more for our times than his.

[@dsbeerf]

Meh. In 1492, "bad air" (malaria) was also thought to be a carrier of sickness, Columbus was responsible for some "horrible" things, but he did not have the slightest idea that he, and his "troops" were the cause of the problems. So fixing blame might NOT be the best way to describe his adventures. Also, by the time he died, he DID know that it was NOT Asia that he "discovered". :-)

[@dunique26]

@@dsbeerf i think u replied to the wrong post. He's speaking about leonardo

[@dunique26]

I dont believe they were asserting this as a negative. I believe it was done to push the gay agenda. As to say hey Da Vinci was gay and did not hide it, and look how great this man was etc. The fact u see it as a negative says more about u than society as a whole..

[@maryjeanjones1940]

Spicy Special- Michelangelo was also gay and fell in love with a young Roman nobleman in 1532. Da Vinci and Michelangelo did not like each other. If you get a chance read the book " The Medici's". This story is incredible and talks all about the Renaissance and its many dirty little secrets. Including dirty secrets about the Vatican.

[@SinghCharan]

@@maryjeanjones1940 I had seen a documentary on Nat Geo or Discovery many years ago where they tried to establish Leonardo's sexuality. Conclusion was after the Sodomy incident with that young lady, there is no evidence whatsoever about his sexual life or sexual orientation and whatever the writers have written is all their own assumptions of him; in fact he hide his privately life so well that it is an act of genius that so little is known of a man of such a great stature!

[@marufkaisar3079]

Great documentary. ❤️it.

[@tomzeman5964]

By far the greatest Astronomer of all time & certainly the Renaissance Tycho Brahe not only invented numerous astronomical & navigational devices but confirmed the geocentric Earth centered solar system was not even mentioned!

[@StephiSensei26]

Fabulous! Expanding and enlightening! Ausgezeichnet!

[@pampayne4482]

As I understand it, modern, international banking was invented by the Knights Templar who were most definitely Christian, not Jewish, originating in the 12th century.

[@carcorr]

Very nice documentary.

[@biosnap_art]

only that it was Isabella of Castile and not her husband Ferdinand of Aragon who gave money to Columbus, in fact, Ferdinand was reluctant as he wanted that money to go to military expenditure. Ferdinand and Isabella had agreements to lend each other money (Castile and Aragon) so if the money for Columbus was coming from the Aragonese funds, most likely was to pay a debt to Castile anyways... but the champion of Columbus was Isabella, not Ferdinand...

[@kyriealarin7951]

Thank you DW for this

[@GabrielMatilingSalistreJr]

The School Of Athens is one of the greatest masterpiece I’ve ever seen.

[@jhundurwin8433]

Very educational and inspiring to be. They were the brain of this changing world.

[@dolphineachonga555]

This was a really enjoyable documentary. Are you going to tackle the industrial revolution? That would be interesting subject matter as well.

[@endovelyco1906]

its sad that we arent capable of doing better art than Renaissance, we supposed to be evolving not retrogressing

[@dewdop]

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[@DaveBuildsThings]

@@dewdop Questioning without a question? Man up and ask the question. History must be learned and remembered or we just repeat it over and over again. Excellent documentary!

[@arghadeepchakraborty2209]

This made me think that there are phases in history where great inventions and progress was made and then there were periods of dark ages where all was lost or forgotten...we are on such a phase now..where we are forgetting our old and going for cheap gigs...I am sure this too will be surpassed by the age of intelligence and technology..just like the Renaissance

[@TianDiener]

Some speculations being presented as facts in this documentary. 🤔

[@janbatista9832]

Like which ones?

[@terrygause29653]

@@janbatista9832 I’ve never seen a bit of evidence, other than one anonymous accusation, that Da Vinci was gay, let alone “openly homosexual”. Maybe he was. I don’t care but we don’t know and the makers of this documentary don’t know.

[@mikestewart6517]

Many thanks DW.

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I really love this documentry 🥰🥰🥰🥰

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Kudos and thanks to all responsible for researching and producing this excellent documentary.

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[@biulaimh3097]

Mein Kampf always comes to mind whenever DW does history.

[@biulaimh3097]

@Mark It`s just what comes to mind. Happily there is nothing anti Jewish about DW history as far as I can tell, so it`s got to be something else. For example, DW made a documentary on Northern Ireland in which they blamed Catholics for starting the troubles there and straight away, that assertion reminded me of the lies in Mein Kampf. The fact that DW is a German documentary maker is just coincidental, they could be Mongolian and that Mein Kampf thought would have been equally immediate. It is a pity because DW documentaries are great when they are not so completely and utterly mistaken.

[@Lou.B]

I really enjoyed this documentary!!!

[@caseyclover1647]

So much beauty, this is perhaps one of the greatest periods in human history. Everyone thinks that so many geniuses existed at the same time was a miracle but in reality the vision of the medici was what brought them together allowed them to thrive. Even today there would be thousands of genius artists who without a patron will simply die without sharing their talents with us. It's an incredible time to be alive, we have so much wealth in the world that we are looking to conquering space and I hope some of that wealth could be used to fund another Renaissance.

[@julieincornwall8786]

an enjoyable and informative movie. TQ

Excellent documentary.

[@ravichanana3148]

Arts and Science nowadays goes hand-in-hand.

[@DaeronK]

Outstanding documentary! Thank you!

[@KilgoreVoid]

“When will you put an end to it?” “When it’s finished.”

[@trtr-tl8li]

In the Middle Ages, human thought stopped. Although ancient times had the same level of science as modern times, somehow humanity lost memory in the Middle Ages. In modern times, we only recall ancient civilizations. So it's weird to evaluate the Renaissance.

[@timclemons8719]

今井誠司 Human thought didn’t stop it was subverted by lesser intellectual humans. Humanity has never totally stopped progressing no matter how slow. Evolution after all is a slow process

[@techrafta]

nice documentary

[@fredmac1000]

Thank you for your efforts

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Many thanks 👍👏👏👏

[@mogbaba]

Excellent documentary, thanks.

[@AlokKumar-ie3vy]

Masterpiece!

[@spliffzombonie]

Why can't I see Copernicus? at 12:10 Can anyone see him?

[@waynelast1685]

As bad as Columbus was to the indigenous populations, if not him it would have been someone else, as it was inevitable as the human population increased then the east and west would merge and contagious disease would spread.

[@itorapadas]

Leonardo actor was hamming it up.