Renaissance

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Pod Cundill Mackenzie Cooley WL

Renaissance eugenics . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Jill Burke WL

Renaissance beauty regimes . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A mermaid combing her hair

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Tails from the deep: separating the real folklore of mermaids from Disney stories

Baptism of Christ c1567, by Juan Fernandez de Navarrete

The “silent study of art”: the deaf artists of the Renaissance

A painting of Lisbon depicts conspicuous displays of Portuguese imperial wealth and power – including enslaved African people

How slavery thrived in Renaissance Europe

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The Arnolfini portrait painting – oil on wood – appears to depict a wealthy couple holding hands in a domestic setting, the bed perhaps indicating that they are in a bedchamber

What great paintings say The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan van Eyck, 1434 . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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CWAXKJ The Battle of Lepanto, the fleet of the Holy League destroys the Turkish fleet near Greece, October 7, 1571

What if... The Ottomans had won at Lepanto in 1571? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Domenico Fetti painting illustrating a melancholic woman in the early 17th century

The Anatomy of Melancholy: how Robert Burton helped shape our understanding of the mind

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A portrait of a member of the Borgias family

The Borgias: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Bust of Lorenzo de' Medici

Lorenzo the Magnificent The astounding life of the ‘delightful tyrant’ of Renaissance Florence

'The Journey of the Magi' by Benozzo Gozzoli, commissioned by Piero the Gouty for the Palazzo Medici Riccardi. It features his son Lorenzo, who would become known as Lorenzo the Magnificent, as one of the three kings

“They were on a level with today’s billionaires” – your guide to the Medici: bankers to the Pope, rulers of Florence, patrons of the Renaissance

A group of men observe a body lying on a table.

Early-modern cannibal doctors: why mummified corpse was considered medicine

From left to right: Queen Isabella of Castile; French regent Anne de Beaujeu; and Catherine of Aragon. (Photos by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/DeAgostini/Imagno/Getty Images)

Game of Queens: when women ruled Renaissance Europe

Portrait of Catherine de Medici, also known as the Serpent Queen

Catherine de Medici The life, death and legacy of the 'Serpent Queen'

Two garden gnomes on grass

A brief history of garden gnomes