Painting of Venus by Botticelli

Renaissance

Two overlapping circular portraits against a teal background: a Renaissance painting of Isabella d’Este on the left and a photograph of author Sarah Dunant on the right

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"She made an impact without being sexually attractive": why this Renaissance fashionista is my history hero. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Renaissance Italy's firearm revolution. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Niccolò Machiavelli: life of the week. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Renaissance: not such a golden age?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Renaissance

Michelangelo: the Renaissance polymath who transformed Western art

A vessel at sea comes across the mythical ghost ship The Flying Dutchman

General History

Seven of history's most disturbing ghost ship stories that will haunt your dreams

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Video podcastMichelangelo: life of the week. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Gulbadan Begum: princess, explorer, author. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

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

Tudor

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

Italian Galileo Galilei.

Renaissance

How Galileo Galilei took on the church and changed the universe

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Galileo: life of the week. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Magus: enlightened magician or Renaissance charlatan?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Painting

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The Renaissance: an explosion of creativity. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

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

A mermaid combing her hair

General Early Modern

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

Baptism of Christ c1567, by Juan Fernandez de Navarrete

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The “silent study of art”: the deaf artists of the Renaissance. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

Medieval

How slavery thrived in Renaissance Europe

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

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

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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

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The Anatomy of Melancholy: how Robert Burton helped shape our understanding of the mind. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of a member of the Borgias family

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

Bust of Lorenzo de' Medici

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Lorenzo the MagnificentThe 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

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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

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

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Early-modern cannibal doctors: why mummified corpse was considered medicine. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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)

Renaissance

Game of Queens: when women ruled Renaissance Europe

Two garden gnomes on grass

Victorian

A brief history of garden gnomes

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Leonardo da Vinci’s private life. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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