• 2017
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Episode list

The Renaissance Factor
Part Two
Fri, Aug 04, 2017
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  • Part Two
We ask what these achievements mean to us today and how - almost half a millennium later - we continue to benefit from the "Renaissance factor." And we delve deeper with the help of spectacular reenactments and our "special investigators" - modern-day trendsetters, scientists, business tycoons, fashion designers and artists.
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Part One
Fri, Aug 04, 2017
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  • Part One
We travel with Michelangelo to the major construction site that was to become St. Peter's Basilica, to the banking houses of the Medicis and the workshop of Johannes Gutenberg. We examine some of the many innovations of the Renaissance such as linear perspective, the printing press and double-entry bookkeeping.
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Part One

SUnknownPart One

Fri, Aug 04, 2017
We travel with Michelangelo to the major construction site that was to become St. Peter's Basilica, to the banking houses of the Medicis and the workshop of Johannes Gutenberg. We examine some of the many innovations of the Renaissance such as linear perspective, the printing press and double-entry bookkeeping.
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Part Two

SUnknownPart Two

Fri, Aug 04, 2017
We ask what these achievements mean to us today and how - almost half a millennium later - we continue to benefit from the "Renaissance factor." And we delve deeper with the help of spectacular reenactments and our "special investigators" - modern-day trendsetters, scientists, business tycoons, fashion designers and artists.
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