The Top 10 Renaissance Popes
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1h 3m
Dr. Rocky Ruggiero
Much of history’s greatest art and architecture was produced for Renaissance popes. In fact, artists such as Botticelli, Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian, Caravaggio, and Bernini all produced multiple masterpieces for those popes who reigned during the Renaissance. Join Dr. Rocky for this webinar as he counts down the ten greatest papal patrons of the Italian Renaissance!
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