Andrew Spira: Botticelli, Perugino and Dürer (1500)
Description
The Renaissance was stirred into life by many figures of genius. In this episode Peter meets up with the art historian, Andrew Spira, to talk about three of the great masters in one of the most captivating of years.
In different ways Botticelli, Perugino and Dürer were finding new stories to tell in their paintings. Spira evaluates all of this for us and he detects the emergence of something else that would be of central importance in the emerging Western society. This was a revolutionary new conception: 'the self'.
Andrew Spira is the author of The Invention of the Self: Personal Identity in the Age of Art, among other works. He is also one of the esteemed tour directors at Ace Culutral Tours.
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Show notes
Scene One: Sandro Botticelli's Mystic Nativity
Scene Two: Pietro Perugino's Resurrection
Scene Three: Albrecht Dürer's Self-portrait
Memento: A Dürer print
People/Social
Presenter: Peter Moore
Guest: Andrew Spira
Production: Maria Nolan
Podcast partner: Ace Cultural Tours
Theme music: ‘Love Token’ from the album ‘This Is Us’ By Slava and Leonard Grigoryan
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