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Renaissance #180 – The Umayyad Conquest (Reconquista #1)
in 1492, the Christians completed "The Reconquista" – the reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula (eg Spain), taking it back from the Muslims. This process lead to the transfer…
Renaissance #179 (Leonardo 67) – The Cold Soup
King Francis offers Leonardo a dream project: Design a town and palace complex. It involved lots of water. Leonardo's last years in France were like a grand finale…
Renaissance #178 (Leonardo 66) – King Francis
Like most men who didn’t have a supportive father, Leonardo seems to have spent his adult life searching for a father figure. Someone who would love him and…
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Renaissance #177 – The Mona Lisa (III) (Leonardo 65)
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Renaissance #177 – The Mona Lisa (III) (Leonardo 65)
We’re talking about the Nude Mona Lisa, how the OG version ended up in France., and the story about how an Italian stole it from the Louvre in…