The Renaissance Story of Easter
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59m
This lecture will explore how great Renaissance masters such as Michelangelo, Giotto, Duccio, Piero della Francesca, Leonardo da Vinci, and Tintoretto depicted the great Christian tale of the Passion and Resurrection of Jesus Christ. Their creative genius produced some of history's most moving and sublime visual interpretations of the stories that define the Easter mystery.
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