5 Italian Cities
Lectures
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1h 2m
Dr. Rocky Ruggiero
Join Dr. Rocky for this webinar where he will examine the unique artistic and historical identities of five Italian cities – Rome, Siena, Florence, Venice and Milan - that helped shape the course of Western civilization from ancient Rome through to the Renaissance. Much of the extraordinary artistic and architectural production that accompanied each city’s “golden age” still survives today and serves as testimony to their former greatness.
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