In this 7 hour audiobook, John Pruskin Ph.D. explores the grand age of the renaissance.
Starting from a general view of the economic, cultural and political climate of western Europe, Pruskin then takes us south to where the ideal of the renaissance holds the most sway over our collective imaginations: Italy.
Explore the world of the great banking dynasty of the Medici family; patrons of the arts responsible for the commissioning of some of the greatest works in the history of western art. Read through the notebooks of the great renaissance painter, sculpture and scientist Leonardo Davinci. Thrill to the new direction music takes in a one hour lecture Music of The Renaissance. (See details and listing of musical examples below). Carve marble and spend five years painting the ceiling of Sistine chapel with Michelangelo. Catch a glimpse into the inner workings and politics of the Vatican, and the popes who controlled it. Finally, take a gondola ride through the streets of Venice and explore the thriving and exciting sea borne commercial heart of the renaissance era.