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Episode 35: San Gimignano: Black Death Paintings in the Collegiata

Rebuilding The Renaissance
Rebuilding The Renaissance
Episode • Sep 18, 2019 • 34m

This episode examines one of the most sinister and violent fresco cycles of the Middle Ages in the cathedral or "Collegiata" of the Tuscan town of San Gimignano. Attributed to a mysterious artist named Barna Da Siena, the frescoes are often used as an example of a "post-Black Death style" of painting.

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