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Andrew Spira: Botticelli, Perugino and Dürer (1500)

Andrew Spira: Botticelli, Perugino and Dürer (1500)

Update: 2023-05-26
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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


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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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Andrew Spira: Botticelli, Perugino and Dürer (1500)

Andrew Spira: Botticelli, Perugino and Dürer (1500)

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