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The Renaissance: an explosion of creativity
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Tails from the deep: separating the real folklore of mermaids from Disney stories
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The “silent study of art”: the deaf artists of the Renaissance
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How slavery thrived in Renaissance Europe
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What great paintings say
The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan van Eyck, 1434
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The Anatomy of Melancholy: how Robert Burton helped shape our understanding of the mind
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The Borgias: everything you wanted to know
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Lorenzo the Magnificent
The astounding life of the ‘delightful tyrant’ of Renaissance Florence
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“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
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Early-modern cannibal doctors: why mummified corpse was considered medicine
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Game of Queens: when women ruled Renaissance Europe
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Catherine de Medici
The life, death and legacy of the 'Serpent Queen'
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