❤ What a treat! Thank you very much! Greetings from Germany❤

Love your enthusiasm! :D

When I was a kid my grandparents would take us to a small Catholic Church in Central Texas. This tiny little church had a 1:1 replica of the Pieta in the back vestibule. I had never seen anything like it and my entire family knew that if we were in that church I was going to be in the back staring at the sculpture. My parents thought this meant that I might want to be a nun. I was fascinated by the hair of the Christ, the mouth of Mary and especially the look of her fingers digging into the clothing of Jesus. I couldn’t understand how this could be done with stone. It had absolutely nothing to do with the religiosity of the piece. The beauty and craftsmanship of that replica launched me on a lifelong love of sculpture. Thank you so much for this lecture! Two stubborn goats butting against each other created such beauty!

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Very good presentation!!!

Excellent presenter and great topic: the tensions between those two titans of the Renaissance, the extraordinary artist and the warrior pope, always fascinated me.

15:30 The reason why the pope Julius II had a beard was that it was a "penitential beard", he would keep it until he would reconquer Bologna (which he never reconquered).

i wished she was more studious and accurate in her historic account. at times even contradicting herself. the historic dimension falls short. it is certainly told in a sympathetic way, but i feel the audience is smarter than she thinks.

34:25 "La Giulia" was not melted by the Bologna citizens, they sold the bronze to Alfonso I, Duke of Ferrara, and a great expert in artillery, and he melted "La Giulia".

23:30 and 33:10 the statue on horseback on the Capitol in Rome is not Hadrian, it is Marcus Aurelius. The other name for the Capitol is Monte Caprino (goats' mount, or hill) and the other name for the forum is Campo Vaccino (cows' field).

This woman is so great. This how art history should be taught: wit, enthusiasm, anecdotes all underpinned with real knowledge.

10:45 Giulio II Della Rovere was born to his father Raffaello della Rovere, from the noble Della Rovere family, in Savona (Liguria), who also was the brother of the previous Della Rovere pope, Sixtus IV. The "fisherman" who was his father was the brother of a pope (and the father of another pope). Giulio II was not born into a fisherman family, but into a very powerful and rich family. He is the typical "cardinal nepote", "cardinal-nephew", hardly a "very inauspicious beginning"! The family was of ancient Piedmontese nobility. The armorial reads: "Titolo: conti di Cinzano; signori di Belriparo, Bruzolo, Castelvecchio, Cercenasco, Mombasiglio, Montafia, Rivalba, Vinovo; consignori di Bruino, Candiolo, Cantogno, Castelnuovo, Castelreinero, Cisterna, Cortanze, Cortazzone, Lemie, Montosolo, Piobesi, Rivalta, Santena ". Another branch of the family has: "Titolo: marchesi di Montabone, Montiglio; conti di Bistagno e Monastero, Viù; signori di Mombasiglio; consignori di Ormea, Roccaverano, Usseglio ". Basically, he was born inside a family of the Piedmontese nobility, the family was conspicuous and if not rich, not poor much before having a pope. Leonardo Beltramo di Savona Della Rovere, the father of pope Sixtus IV, belonged to the Consiglio degli Anziani, (Council of the Elderly, basically the City Parliament), of Savona, when the future pope was still a child, which means he was a notable person in the town.

Cars passing on the side were very distractingly.

Michelangelo and Julius II had sexual relation? Idk but thats what i read in a graphic historical novel "The Terrible Pope" which was publiched in 2009. It was an interesting read and i want to know how accurate is the book i read. I am a lay man and i find these historical stories interesting and i want to read more but i am not sure where to start from.

Realy wonder why nog julius career movied yet...

Interestingly, Julius was far more cruel and lacking in morality that Alexander ever was. At least Alexander had some introspection towards the end of his life and as you said Julius was a massive narcissist. #teamborgia

I'm really amazed of how many inaccuracies this person makes in this "lecture". I mean, who are her audience and what is her background to be called "curator" with so many inaccuracies and silly statements? The equestrian statue in Campidoglio "Hadrian", really?

That why they have her sleep with her brother in the show instead?

This is just embarrassingly bad, she makes up things about Julius II that just aren't true, from simple things as to why he grew his beard to his inner thoughts and motivations. To Anyone who has studied Italian Renaissance and Julius II this is painful to watch and scandalous that she injects her personal biases

Pope Julius was a "raging narcissist"?? Is this art historical fact? 🤣 Simplistic and weird presentation by a giggling lecturer who clearly needs to ridicule historical figures and drag the quattrocento into the 21st century and popularise it by raising laughs. Absolutely terrible. An insult to Michelangelo.