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Courtesy of Wired, historian Alexander Bevilacqua (Williams College) answers the internet’s burning questions about the cultural rebirth that came to be known as The Renaissance. In 30+ minutes, Bevilacqua covers an array of questions, including: When did The Renaissance begin? What exactly was the Renaissance? Why do paintings like the Mona Lisa and The Birth of Venus remain so famous centuries later? What did people’s diets consist of during The Renaissance? How was their hygiene? How did Brunelleschi build a dome in Florence that defied gravity? What is inside Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks? And the questions go on…
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This content originally appeared on Open Culture and was authored by OC
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