Cataclysm. Black death visits Tuscany
Description
Until 1348, people in Sienna and Florence enjoyed the richest, safest, and most comfortable lives in their history. But almost overnight, their certainty of life-and even any hope of a good death-was gone. This program assesses the aftermath of the ferocious damage unleashed by the bubonic plague on the two city-states. Historians Alexander Nagel and Nicholas Terpstra, from the University of Toronto, and professional artisans-chief among them, sculptor Marcello del Colle, from Opera del Duomo-comment on how dazzling works of architecture went unfinished, artisans became more intrigued with the divine world than the natural, and how from the ashes a new spiritual inquiry would spring, paving the way for the High Renaissance.
Runtime
49 min
Series
Subjects
- Diseases (446)
- Medical microbiology (113)
- Self-care, Health (487)
- Middle ages (68)
- Communicable diseases (311)
- Infection (258)
- Art, Medieval Europe (19)
- Art, Baroque (91)
Geography
Genre
Date of Publication
[2006], c2004
Database
Films on Demand
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