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#95 – Savonarola Part 2
Savonarola starts his preaching career but it doesn't go very well. One person who *is* impressed though is a young Pico della Mirandola. That would have far-reaching consequences.…
#94 – Savonarola Part 1
After Lorenzo de Medici’s death in 1492, Botticelli gave up painting, abandoned his humanist studies, and became a hardcore fundamentalist Christian. As did a lot of Florentines. The…
#93 – Sandro Botticelli 5
When Giuliano de Medici gets murdered in the Duomo during the Pazzi Conspiracy of 1478, Booty was probably there. What should a Florentine painter paint after the Pope…
#92 – Sandro Botticelli 4
Botticelli's first painting of a non-religious subject was FORTITUDE, 1470. It’s considered his first masterpiece. He then explored other stories like The Return of Judith to Bethulia from…