Historian Alexander Bevilacqua joins WIRED to answer the internet’s burning questions about the cultural rebirth which came to be known as The Renaissance. When did The Renaissance begin? What was it exactly? Why do paintings like the Mona Lisa and The Birth of Venus remain so famous centuries later? What did people’s diets consist of during The Renaissance? How was their hygiene? Answers to these questions and many more await within this episode of Renaissance Support.
0:00 Renaissance Support
0:13 What is The Renaissance?
1:00 Renaissance: Beginnings
2:26 Sheesh
4:18 Renaissance Diet
5:43 Hidden messages in The Last Supper
7:33 Renaissance Content
8:05 I’m your Venus I’m your fire at your desire
9:26 Heroes in a half shell
9:53 Belladonna for cosmetic purposes
10:58 Gutenberg vs Guttenberg
13:17 Was MLK named after the protestant Martin Luther?
14:34 Here be monsters
15:31 The Sistine Chapel
17:13 Renaissance resources
18:41 da Vinci’s Notebooks
20:47 Was da Vinci wealthy?
21:49 Makaveli referencing Machiavelli
22:46 I’m here to talk to you about the Avenger initiative
23:35 Renaissance Faire Drip
25:25 Ha okay. Just a very friendly bachelor, then.
26:24 Copernicus
27:57 Istanbul was Constantinople
29:23 Brunelleschi’s dome
30:37 Renaissance Hygiene
31:24 Before dentistry
32:12 Shakespeare: Was He Real?
Director: Lisandro Perez-Rey
Director of Photography: Ben Dewey
Editor: Richard Trammell
Expert: Alexander Bevilacqua
Creative Producer: Anna O’Donohue
Line Producer: Joseph Buscemi
Associate Producer: Brandon White
Production Manager: Peter Brunette
Production Coordinator: Rhyan Lark
Casting Producer: Nicholas Sawyer
Camera Operator: Lauren Pruitt
Sound Mixer: Michael Guggino
Production Assistant: Ryan Coppola
Post Production Supervisor: Christian Olguin
Post Production Coordinator: Rachel Kim
Supervising Editor: Christina Mankellow
Additional Editor: Jason Malizia
Assistant Editor: Billy Ward
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29 Comments
If you see the Birth of Venus in person, you get it. It's so incredible. It's scale is unexpected and it's just so immersive. Photos do not do it justice.
27:57 That's nobody's business but the Turks
Dude is legit: Studied History at Harvard College, Political Thought and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge, and History at Princeton
Japanese culture does that pale stuff as well
"First of all, rude." You tell them, king! Love that WIRED finds the best people to provide insight to these topics.
Big thanks to Alexander Bevilacqua for this comprehensive and enlightening commentary👏
I love his response to the makeup question. Killing your husband with your makeup 💄💀
Do you have a side gig where you do John Malkovich impressions because I think you could make BANK
10:42 ✨ 𝓐𝓺𝓾𝓪 𝓣𝓸𝓯𝓪𝓷𝓪 ✨
It's all about the "I've got a secret" smile. Like she's Christ's great-grand daughter or something.
His real name is Brutus.
Yes but when da Vinci was established was he wealthy for the standards of the day? That’s how I took the question. 🙋♀️
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Did not answer the question. Mona Lisa is still ugly.
Wow I learned so much
I didn't think I'd like this, but it was actually fascinating.
him: i'm historian Alex Bevilacqua-
me: oh i'm sure
15:15 the Tupinambá people did engage in cannibalism, just to be clear. They ate their conquered enemies, yummy
always facsinated by the Renaissance, love more of these arts to be explained! hopefully there will be a part 2!
Nice.
Love this. One quibble: the Portuguese never were able to take over the spice trade in the Indian Ocean. He uses the word "disrupt" and that's exactly the right word. When the Portuguese discovered that they didn't have what the spice merchants were interested in to establish trade relations, the Portuguese turned to "armed trade": they would seize a boat in transit and force those aboard to "trade" what they had on them with what the Portuguese had. Sometimes those boats were trading vessels. Sometimes they were passenger boats as part of the route to Mecca.
The Portuguese became such a nuisance that the overland route for trade and to Mecca became more secure.
Big ups to the team. This was outstanding. The way that the expert aboard the questions was GREAT👏🏼👏🏼
This was awesome! Love these videos!!
This was awesomely informative. I learned so much. Thank you 😊
The Mona Lisa is such an unremarkable painting, especially if you’ve seen it in real life.
This video made me wanna play Assassin's Creed 2 again.
I love how hey saved that one for last like alright but was Shakespeare even real
That was so interesting, thank you! There is an Italian tiktoker, Tommaso – ricette medievali, who's reading, and trying, a lot of Renassaince, rather than Medieval, recipes. He even reads about historical banquets, like one Cardenal Campeggio gave in Rome for emperor Charles V. There were so many courses I believe it's still going on XD .
Historically, the european colonizers learned the habit of bathing with the south american original people. Please don't sugar coat this. They used the perfume to mask the bad smell. Till this day french people are know over this