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@charleneong
February 25, 2025 at 7:31 pm
Thank you for pointing out the sociocultural necessity of women upholding harmful beauty standards and emphasizing that those women were not just superficial and obsessive (at least, any more than we are now)
@natthebug2
February 25, 2025 at 7:42 pm
He’s so engaging, I could listen to him for hours.
@KyomaiFumika
February 25, 2025 at 7:45 pm
To be precises the Chinese had movable type printing since around 1045 AD.
@joshberkin5567
February 25, 2025 at 7:51 pm
It wasn’t the same though. The Renaissance version was more effective i think
@KyomaiFumika
February 25, 2025 at 8:01 pm
@@joshberkin5567 It wasn’t about that tho. He claimed printing in China prior to the Gutenberg’s invention was wood block print and not movable type printing and that isn’t true.
@lilibug.
February 25, 2025 at 7:46 pm
Not a blouse- that is either a chemise or a partlet. Not impressed.
@momentar7494
February 25, 2025 at 7:47 pm
I have never heard people say Mona Lisa is ugly
@jessicarossman2966
February 25, 2025 at 7:47 pm
There is a historic and amazing velvet production house called Bevilaqua in Venice. Any connection?
@nightangelx1513
February 25, 2025 at 7:50 pm
wow this is awesome, I just started a DnD campaign based off of the renaissance !
@bdso9593
February 25, 2025 at 7:53 pm
I thought Queen Elizabeth the first ate a ton of chocolate?
@TNMJAD
February 25, 2025 at 7:53 pm
Can someone give me a time stamp of the clickbait thumbnail?
@sweetest-sweater
February 25, 2025 at 7:55 pm
2:26 you can find all of the timestamps in the description, though this one is titled “sheesh”
@Snaomib
February 25, 2025 at 7:58 pm
i came here to say “f colombus” 😒
@Puddingbat
February 25, 2025 at 8:01 pm
My favourite period of history, thank you for reminding us that its not just Italy that flourishes in this time.
@boogerf3679
February 25, 2025 at 8:01 pm
Does Alexander Bevilacqua Have a podcast?
@Chestnut442
February 25, 2025 at 8:02 pm
VERY well done – thank you! However, one quibble: IMHO the Mona Lisa is the most famous portrait painting, not “..the most famous painting in history.”
@colinloeffler5092
February 25, 2025 at 8:23 pm
Ooooh, that’s interesting! What do you consider the most famous painting?
@Welisdoingwell
February 25, 2025 at 8:03 pm
please do a bluesky edition.
@Deadeye777
February 25, 2025 at 8:08 pm
love listening to people who are passionate about their knowledge
@rosefitzgerald1754
February 25, 2025 at 8:10 pm
thank you so much for talking about why renaissance women went to such dangerous lengths for beauty! in a society where basically your entire life was determined by who you married, looking a certain way wasn’t just vanity, it could mean life or death. really appreciate you giving the women of the past their dues <3
@Wolfennar
February 25, 2025 at 8:15 pm
26:20 I’m sorry but what a load of bullcrap. This only serves to erase the existence of lgbtq people throughout history and reinforces the idea that we’re just a silly modern invention. Fk that we’ve always existed stop dancing around technicalities.
@dianatralli4099
February 25, 2025 at 8:15 pm
As an italian i particularly appreciate the fact that he tries his best in pronouncing italian names correctly, something that non italians (expecially english native speakers) rarely do.
@exdejesus
February 25, 2025 at 8:16 pm
Wow! What amazingly interesting answers and explanations! Thank you.
@Canrugger
February 25, 2025 at 8:17 pm
columbas never reached north america…this is important to mention
@Canrugger
February 25, 2025 at 8:18 pm
Who looks at art and thinks “wow that person is ugly”
@surge208
February 25, 2025 at 8:19 pm
Does this dude have a YouTube channel or a book? Cuz he rules.
@JamesHunterRoss
February 25, 2025 at 8:20 pm
What a fantastic 30 minutes! This guy is great, the “curation” of the questions seems very thoughtful, and the flow of the video seems guided by real pros. Let’s get Mr. Bevilacqua back for another era, or another region, or maybe even art history.
@Canrugger
February 25, 2025 at 8:24 pm
You forgot 1 turtle….venus
@0miaumiau
February 25, 2025 at 8:25 pm
“trickle in” when talking about coffee, cacao and other colonial goods is a very sweet sugarcoating, mister. 🙂
@jeffreyjohnson7359
February 26, 2025 at 1:51 pm
My favorite part of the Mona Lisa is the wild background…
@malkalopez1641
February 26, 2025 at 2:02 pm
“First of all — rude” 😂😂😂 tell it!
@patrickball3185
February 26, 2025 at 2:04 pm
11:35 Where can i buy that tiny printing press?! Please and thank you.
@gatsby201041
February 26, 2025 at 2:10 pm
He sounds like, Kiefer Sutherland in “Dark City”
@beetlefang
February 26, 2025 at 2:13 pm
What a fun video!
@vfrancaise9159
February 26, 2025 at 3:02 pm
I wish Alexander Bevilacqua could be my friend, I wanna hang out with him and just make him talk for hours : (
@katescrimgeour3884
February 26, 2025 at 3:14 pm
This was one of the best Tech Support episodes.
@kse222-j2l
February 26, 2025 at 3:37 pm
did not mona lisa got fameous because she was stolen multiple times?
@ottlika
February 26, 2025 at 3:50 pm
imagine commissioning a portrait of your wife and you never get it and then it becomes the most famous artwork in history
@EchtMartijn
February 26, 2025 at 7:58 pm
Even more weird than that, the painting was made famous because it was stolen.
@KayleeKez
February 26, 2025 at 3:52 pm
16:29 “Where Adam (humans) created god”. There, I fixed it for you.
@comedian0338
February 26, 2025 at 5:08 pm
Someone get this man a tube of chapstick, stat.
@legoman716
February 26, 2025 at 5:18 pm
I hate it when english-speaking people pronounce Renaissance as Re-ney-sance. The word is french and isn’t pronounciation with a y-sound in the middle.
Luckily the expert in this video doesn’t pronounce the term in that (incorrect) way
@Ms.Murchison
February 26, 2025 at 5:27 pm
This is an excellent video! I learned a lot, and I particularly enjoyed how Prof. Bevilacqua explains that you can’t really give a specific date for the beginning of the Renaissance, and then proceeds to give us some dates. 🙂 As a history professor, I completely understand and support both halves of that answer. 🙂
@Lollossslol123
February 26, 2025 at 5:33 pm
The Mona Lisa comment was so rude! I can’t believe people think like that
@orchidlover
February 26, 2025 at 5:46 pm
Thank you so much. I learned a lot and enjoyed your accent.
@GrinderCB
February 26, 2025 at 6:01 pm
I had a history professor in college teach that the sacking of Constantinople in 1453 by the Turks precipitated the Renaissance. When Constantinople fell, the scholars and clerics there fled into western Europe, thus ending the Middle Ages there when art and science received a boost.
@Kyder
February 26, 2025 at 6:12 pm
Hey Wired, can you give him my number please? ty
@CucumberLlamas
February 26, 2025 at 6:44 pm
@metatron HAS to do a react on this video
@esmeralda478
February 26, 2025 at 6:50 pm
One of the best ones !
@tdog5035
February 26, 2025 at 7:02 pm
Is shakespear real? There are some dumb people in the world.
@victorbadoe
February 26, 2025 at 7:40 pm
Another pearl online… Great guest! What’s with the video quality?
@honeydreams2565
February 26, 2025 at 8:01 pm
It’s so clean!
@theoldblood3804
February 26, 2025 at 7:40 pm
If you just realized the ninja turtles were named after those artists you been sleeping bro ive know that ish since the 90s no joke everyone knows
@StorybooksInn
February 26, 2025 at 7:49 pm
his accent is so interesting! i cant pinpoint it!
@RonJohn63
February 26, 2025 at 8:04 pm
The Vitruvian Man, Birth of Venus, God’s finger touching Adam… all interesting to look at. The Mona Lisa, though, is a big fat _MEH._
@MadCat-co3qb
February 26, 2025 at 8:21 pm
The question about the Mona Lisa just reflect the idiocy of our times.
@heraldshalom2756
February 27, 2025 at 12:27 pm
13:59 Faith, not fate.
@yuh5402
February 27, 2025 at 12:49 pm
33 minutes and we still don’t know which was more culturally significant, The Renaissance or Single Ladies by Beyoncè
@tonis1983
February 27, 2025 at 1:04 pm
So brilliant! Thank you! ☺️
@BlueBird8925
February 27, 2025 at 1:16 pm
What a fascinating speaker!
@joepearson7192
February 27, 2025 at 1:24 pm
“No way”
“WAY”
Hahaha. This guy is so great!
@stephanberger3476
February 27, 2025 at 2:10 pm
Don’t forget the potato. How could we ever do without?
@iloverihanna
February 27, 2025 at 2:52 pm
The thumbnail is killing me 😭😭😭
@Gregg-i4o
February 27, 2025 at 3:04 pm
Excellence
@DramaticTrumpet
February 27, 2025 at 3:31 pm
Best tech support so far!
@addylasala4467
February 27, 2025 at 3:33 pm
Obsessed with this guest.
@SS-rr7by
February 27, 2025 at 3:55 pm
The autism here is real and I love it
@noncatholiccatholicrat6309
February 27, 2025 at 4:28 pm
same 🧊
@katief7047
February 27, 2025 at 3:58 pm
I have a selfie with the Mona Lisa where I’m 2 ft away haha it was pretty underwhelming considering the other amazing artwork at the Louvre. Especially the works the span the entire walls. Meanwhile the Mona Lisa is the size of a pea In comparison.
@Baanvast
February 27, 2025 at 4:02 pm
Wrong David depicted @ 16:08
@n00bitaww
February 27, 2025 at 4:09 pm
take a shot every time he says the name, in italics.
@eyeballs138
February 27, 2025 at 4:21 pm
Nicely explained
@nathandaugherty4168
February 27, 2025 at 4:43 pm
4:03 is giving Chappel Roan’s instagram
@savannahraemccracken8222
February 27, 2025 at 5:00 pm
Recently went to Italy and my wife and were shocked at how crowded and small the Sistine Chapel was. If you don’t know it’s so small and crowded on the vast huge ceiling it’s very surprising
@MissVendetta
February 27, 2025 at 5:57 pm
I always did well in history class, but I would’ve retained far more if my teachers had been this excellent at explanations or excited about answering questions.
@erikkorhonen
February 27, 2025 at 6:05 pm
because the painting was stolen.
@dogoku
February 27, 2025 at 6:23 pm
15:50 So does that mean Michaelangelo actually said “You want WHAT on the f*cking ceiling?!”
@Brett323
February 27, 2025 at 6:52 pm
“there’s no coded message there” 😉
@williamwolf2844
February 27, 2025 at 7:18 pm
A very good talk, but there’s a error. He says that China only had block type not movable type here. That’s not true. China, 400 years before Gutenberg, had ceramic movable type but it didn’t really catch on. And about 200 years after that, which is 200 years before Gutenberg, Korea developed metal movable type. But again this did not really catch on. And in both cases, the reasons probably because writing, even in Korean, relied on Chinese characters. And you need thousands or tens of thousands of these as opposed to dozens of characters you need with an alphabet.
@laexploradoraaaXD
February 27, 2025 at 7:50 pm
Thank you for saying that the women using these toxic substances were probably aware but weighed their pros and cons and used them anyway because modern audiences often think that people in the past didn’t have agency.
@nilesd.3533
February 27, 2025 at 8:13 pm
Great video!
@suzywolf5143
February 27, 2025 at 8:25 pm
I could listen to this guy for hours. He’s so good at telling stories
@llaauuddrruupp
February 28, 2025 at 7:18 am
If I ever need to run a footrace against an old high school rival, I want Mr. Bevilacqua here to officiate it.
@beggar1015
February 28, 2025 at 7:19 am
Forget the Renaissance as we seem to be back in the Victorian age with your need to blur out parts of these artworks.
@aka_Tatjana
February 28, 2025 at 7:22 am
People with passion for a special subject and extensive knowledge are my favourites. I could have listened to him all day long.
@SoLuVaBle299
February 28, 2025 at 7:26 am
Ambroise Paré casually making grillz way back in the Renaissance 😂
@paulabarreto6999
February 28, 2025 at 7:30 am
What a delightful episode!
@natedizzy4939
February 28, 2025 at 7:43 am
The bible doesnt describe the world geocentrically. Like many things, it is just an assumption based on the preconceived notions of the person reading it
@Michellesalot
February 28, 2025 at 8:33 am
Anyone else alarmed by the fact that one person didn’t think Shakespeare was real and another didn’t think a “human” did the Sistine chapel… like what was it AI?
@tommasoleonardi8535
February 28, 2025 at 9:39 am
Im not sure if he sounds italian or if he just has very good pronunciation. Also I might just be subconsciously suggested by his italian name
@ricardomm1
February 28, 2025 at 9:56 am
The indigenous people of Brazil, specifically the ones of the great Tupi family, did cannibalize their enemies.
@nolikeygsomnipresence270
February 28, 2025 at 10:19 am
Leonadro.
@Thorium_Th
February 28, 2025 at 10:32 am
12:58 tststs… Luther forgot to turn off the pilcrow.
@leomeyer280495
February 28, 2025 at 10:52 am
The answer about the diet is sadly a bit stereotypical. Many recent European studies have shown that even in the Renaissance, both lower and higher classes ate much better than we thought, with varied products, sauces, meats and all. It wasn’t dull at all !
@waitselljones8068
February 28, 2025 at 10:52 am
Literally today I learned that Martin Luther King Jr. WASN’T born Martin Luther, it was changed when he was 5.
@Qwerka
February 28, 2025 at 10:56 am
I believe this video was the first time the Turks were mentioned in Wired.
@LJE1821
February 28, 2025 at 11:41 am
It’s so fun to know and learn history, I wish I can travel so I can see every pieces of history
@purpleAiPEy
February 28, 2025 at 11:56 am
I doodle like Michelangelo.. i knew i had talent
@jenntastic4591
February 28, 2025 at 12:39 pm
If you see the Birth of Venus in person, you get it. It’s so incredible. It’s scale is unexpected and it’s just so immersive. Photos do not do it justice.
@kevinalexpeek4020
February 28, 2025 at 1:20 pm
27:57 That’s nobody’s business but the Turks
@sabi_wasabi2499
February 28, 2025 at 1:27 pm
Dude is legit: Studied History at Harvard College, Political Thought and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge, and History at Princeton
@janielnelson5268
February 28, 2025 at 2:25 pm
Japanese culture does that pale stuff as well
@gtleshow
February 28, 2025 at 4:13 pm
“First of all, rude.” You tell them, king! Love that WIRED finds the best people to provide insight to these topics.
@janetf23
February 28, 2025 at 5:02 pm
Big thanks to Alexander Bevilacqua for this comprehensive and enlightening commentary👏
@bigidea121
February 28, 2025 at 5:03 pm
I love his response to the makeup question. Killing your husband with your makeup 💄💀
@IndiaAnderson
February 28, 2025 at 5:12 pm
Do you have a side gig where you do John Malkovich impressions because I think you could make BANK
@HaveaBiscuitt
February 28, 2025 at 7:54 pm
10:42 ✨ 𝓐𝓺𝓾𝓪 𝓣𝓸𝓯𝓪𝓷𝓪 ✨
@zweisteinya
February 28, 2025 at 10:40 pm
It’s all about the “I’ve got a secret” smile. Like she’s Christ’s great-grand daughter or something.
@claudiaanddavid
March 1, 2025 at 4:50 am
His real name is Brutus.
@Vashti_Online
March 1, 2025 at 7:06 am
Yes but when da Vinci was established was he wealthy for the standards of the day? That’s how I took the question. 🙋♀️
@SonyWilliam
March 1, 2025 at 7:57 am
Did not answer the question. Mona Lisa is still ugly.
@elle_00000
March 1, 2025 at 8:23 am
Wow I learned so much
@Mus1c1luv
March 1, 2025 at 9:29 am
I didn’t think I’d like this, but it was actually fascinating.
@bmujica
March 1, 2025 at 11:41 am
him: i’m historian Alex Bevilacqua-
me: oh i’m sure
@fep_ptcp883
March 1, 2025 at 11:54 am
15:15 the Tupinambá people did engage in cannibalism, just to be clear. They ate their conquered enemies, yummy
@missygermaine
March 1, 2025 at 11:54 am
always facsinated by the Renaissance, love more of these arts to be explained! hopefully there will be a part 2!
@RobertWalker-c7r
March 1, 2025 at 12:32 pm
Nice.
@icarusancalion3523
March 1, 2025 at 12:53 pm
Love this. One quibble: the Portuguese never were able to take over the spice trade in the Indian Ocean. He uses the word “disrupt” and that’s exactly the right word. When the Portuguese discovered that they didn’t have what the spice merchants were interested in to establish trade relations, the Portuguese turned to “armed trade”: they would seize a boat in transit and force those aboard to “trade” what they had on them with what the Portuguese had. Sometimes those boats were trading vessels. Sometimes they were passenger boats as part of the route to Mecca.
The Portuguese became such a nuisance that the overland route for trade and to Mecca became more secure.
@Jk-vp3hl
March 1, 2025 at 1:49 pm
Big ups to the team. This was outstanding. The way that the expert aboard the questions was GREAT👏🏼👏🏼
@mossboggz
March 1, 2025 at 2:34 pm
This was awesome! Love these videos!!
@BacchusGlass
March 1, 2025 at 2:46 pm
This was awesomely informative. I learned so much. Thank you 😊
@JessieBanana
March 1, 2025 at 4:24 pm
The Mona Lisa is such an unremarkable painting, especially if you’ve seen it in real life.
@FereldenKrogan
March 1, 2025 at 5:46 pm
This video made me wanna play Assassin’s Creed 2 again.
@sneaks9150
March 1, 2025 at 5:48 pm
I love how hey saved that one for last like alright but was Shakespeare even real
@mariamarchese8405
March 1, 2025 at 6:00 pm
That was so interesting, thank you! There is an Italian tiktoker, Tommaso – ricette medievali, who’s reading, and trying, a lot of Renassaince, rather than Medieval, recipes. He even reads about historical banquets, like one Cardenal Campeggio gave in Rome for emperor Charles V. There were so many courses I believe it’s still going on XD .
@rafaelalemos9451
March 1, 2025 at 7:59 pm
Historically, the european colonizers learned the habit of bathing with the south american original people. Please don’t sugar coat this. They used the perfume to mask the bad smell. Till this day french people are know over this
@SM-cv8sv
March 2, 2025 at 3:51 pm
cute you think bath houses didn’t exist before America.
@cheapscifi
March 1, 2025 at 8:28 pm
This guy was great in Gohstbusters II.
@JhoRPG
March 1, 2025 at 11:31 pm
he answered the TMNT with such sincerety that i forgot how the question was probably made in jest
@elle_T.T
March 2, 2025 at 12:04 am
I thought it would be vanta black 17:19
@reysolo3672
March 2, 2025 at 12:44 am
I still don’t get mona lisa. Why would and how do you look at her and start caring about what she is thinking ?????
@ta21l
March 2, 2025 at 2:59 am
I feel like a lot of these questions were answered in middle school and high school.
@SpiralCee
March 2, 2025 at 4:58 am
I didn’t expect to be impressed by the Mona Lisa when I visited the Louvre in the late 90s, but she was luminous. I was starstruck!
@slc1161
March 2, 2025 at 5:21 am
The printing press allowed, for the first time, the poor to have access to education and learning to read.
@dcbsmt
March 2, 2025 at 5:45 am
The print block shown is Tibetan not Chinese.
@giselaswaragita1326
March 2, 2025 at 9:45 am
RENAISSANCE WAS ACHIEVED WITHOUT CAFFEINE?????
@TheLibraryChamber
March 2, 2025 at 11:21 am
Prof Plumb places the start of the Renaissance in the beginning of the Italian renaissance in the 1100’s? Does it go back that far?
@TheLibraryChamber
March 2, 2025 at 11:25 am
…achievements WITHOUT caffeine?
@maddiejung974
March 2, 2025 at 11:36 am
isn’t this the name of a Beyonce album
@SocietyNeedsImprovement
March 2, 2025 at 12:46 pm
12:48 I can’t process this sentence until the final word, “millenium” is spoken. But instead of pausing, he’s immediately starting the next sentence. We could use more pauses in this video series.
@girlontheclouds2936
March 2, 2025 at 1:41 pm
his accent is 😍🤩🤤
@saltiestsiren
March 2, 2025 at 1:55 pm
The rich gatekeeping pornography is so typical. That’s something Elon Musk would try to do in the year of our Lord 2025 A.D.
@malinko35
March 2, 2025 at 3:48 pm
🗑🗑🚮🚮 historian
@noni8213
March 2, 2025 at 5:26 pm
I love this so much
@rlswiss7518
March 2, 2025 at 5:58 pm
what a woke shitshow, omg
@seanhitt
March 2, 2025 at 6:08 pm
This continues to be one of the interesting educational series
@theprousteffect9717
March 2, 2025 at 7:24 pm
Imagine thinking a painting subject’s perceived attractiveness (by a modern day person no less) should have any bearing on the painting’s influence.
@SakutoNoSAI
March 2, 2025 at 7:44 pm
This is precisely why narcissists shouldn’t teach history. Everything has to be interpreted through their skewed self interested lens of reality to support their own view of the human condition; “clearly the universe was created when I was born for my one Isogesis”
@anb2526
March 2, 2025 at 8:23 pm
Proud of Williams College for having this smart guy in its ranks!
@ADHDonwheeels
March 3, 2025 at 3:22 am
Why did you cut out the second reason for the Mona Lisa being so popular – which probably would have been the fact that it was NOT popular until it was stolen in the 20th century?
@emilyb.8219
March 3, 2025 at 3:42 am
I love that he acknowledged that women had to do whatever they felt necessary to survive and thrive in a heavily patriarchal society, including using unhealthy cosmetics
@zerojaem
March 3, 2025 at 5:06 am
i wish he was my histroy professor
@staceygram5555
March 3, 2025 at 5:08 am
“in a patriarchal society”
So… every society ever? Women don’t build societies – or anything else, really.
@melonlord5026
March 3, 2025 at 5:59 am
It’s weird how my mind immediately recall Assassin’s Creed 2 when he mention De Medici Family
@yc1330
March 3, 2025 at 6:01 am
I could listen to him for ages and never get bored
@mianhaeioi
March 3, 2025 at 6:22 am
The oldest book printed using movable metal type is actually Jikji, printed in Korea in 1377, 78 years prior to the Gutenburg Bible
@arielperez3613
March 3, 2025 at 6:25 am
2:27 there’s no way the person who asked this is older than 18 years old
@karelpainchaud1859
March 3, 2025 at 8:07 am
Very good video, but i’d say it misses an important fact. Renaissance would never have happened if the classic ideas werent first kept for centuries by muslim people.
@Raz.C
March 3, 2025 at 8:24 am
No, I’m pretty sure “The Last Supper” shows that one of Jesus’ apostles was a robot! Saint James, perhaps?
@quacker143
March 3, 2025 at 8:34 am
Well the one who commented Mona Lisa is ugly is entitled to his/her opinion. That’s not being rude that’s stating facts according to his/her idea of beauty. Beauty in the medieval times cannot be compared to the standard of beauty today. Yes I also do not think she is a stunner but I guess the painting is not famous because of her beauty it is because of the painting technique. If you look at it that way then it makes sense.
@pacoceja4659
March 3, 2025 at 8:39 am
this guy has absolutely horrible diction! 👎
@Smokey348
March 3, 2025 at 10:03 am
10:27 Makeup was an indicator for a wealthy status (its a class thing). Beauty was not important because its in a patriachal world???
@JoobieLoobieSoobie
March 3, 2025 at 1:16 pm
Something else about Mona Lisa. If you focus on just her lips, they are not actually smiling. It’s only when you have them in your peripheral sight that the smile blossoms. Utterly masterful.
@noeleom6394
March 3, 2025 at 1:41 pm
This guy clearly loves, and loves sharing, his knowledge. Bravo!
@MsTwissy
March 3, 2025 at 3:12 pm
Thank you for telling me WHY this history is important, rather than just telling me that it is important.
@samanthapochiro
March 3, 2025 at 3:16 pm
Ginevra de Benci kinda looks like Chappel Roan
@Lee-rg1ez
March 3, 2025 at 3:41 pm
Great stuff
@courtneylane7639
March 3, 2025 at 5:03 pm
Ok Moira Rose. I get enunciation but dam. 😂😂😂
@stefanydethling7964
March 3, 2025 at 6:13 pm
Amazing, one of the best WIRED Tech Support videos ever!!!!
@JanielDavidAlfaros
March 3, 2025 at 6:21 pm
Pillowbiter.
@saidtoshimaru1832
March 3, 2025 at 7:05 pm
20:37 – Every lefty knows that pain.
@arrctic7283
March 3, 2025 at 7:36 pm
F@9
@christopherkhalifafoster4277
March 3, 2025 at 7:43 pm
The question of mlk being name after the other guy. I noticed that the moment he mention the name earlier in the video
@dorienemonteiro
March 3, 2025 at 8:08 pm
Everytime I watch a video of this series, I get inspired to study more and become as good in my field as professionals like Mr. Bevilacqua! Thank you for all the knowledge 🙂
@mariacarneiro1524
March 4, 2025 at 12:36 am
great video!!
@richyrich5049
March 4, 2025 at 1:30 am
I agree. I grew up thinking the Mona Lisa was something great, simply due to the hype. That painting is mid to say the most.
@megamanx466
March 4, 2025 at 6:55 am
‘Assassin’s Creed II’ is a fun way to play through much of the Italian Renaissance. The other games of the same character cover other parts in Europe, including Constantinople, to explore/play in. Many people play those games just to relive history! 😅
@beansprout_apg886
March 4, 2025 at 8:21 am
Oh my.. I love the ice queen lady❤❤❤
@HATERNUMBERTWO
March 4, 2025 at 8:39 am
“was shakespear real” bffr💀💀💀
@dbutler1986
March 4, 2025 at 11:51 am
Faith, not fate
@rebpos6519
March 4, 2025 at 12:02 pm
I could listen to this man spill all his incredible knowledge in that lovely accent for HOURS upon HOURS.
@sent1169
March 4, 2025 at 1:12 pm
Unfortunately, I can’t stand the way he talks. Can’t watch sorry
@Philippines1780
March 4, 2025 at 1:17 pm
i dont realy find mona lisa beautiful painting, monets girl with umbrella, is far more greater art than mona lisa…
@nat_melo5450
March 4, 2025 at 2:48 pm
my favorite artistic era. ❤ (Baroque are interesting too)
@KManwarren
March 4, 2025 at 3:20 pm
I like how he interprets the place of religion as divisive and the art/literature as a rebirth of paganism. Crazy biased perspective.
@MrsGod22
March 4, 2025 at 5:00 pm
Mona Lisa became famous at the beginning of the 20th century (1919 or so), when it was stolen and all papers wrote about it.
@casual9435
March 4, 2025 at 5:37 pm
I could listen to this man forever
@TrainingVideosChannel4
March 4, 2025 at 6:51 pm
Dude is def a homosexual kamala voter
@Ticothesquirrel1
March 5, 2025 at 12:26 am
What about it lmao
@TrainingVideosChannel4
March 5, 2025 at 9:48 am
@@Ticothesquirrel1 Nothing, as long as he doesn’t live anywhere near me.
@Ticothesquirrel1
March 5, 2025 at 10:05 am
@@TrainingVideosChannel4 What a sad, boring little life you live.
@gyanprakashraj4062
March 4, 2025 at 7:37 pm
MISLEADING…
@bebeenderson7863
March 4, 2025 at 8:28 pm
What did these artist do on their freetime? Did they party? drink? Smoke? Dance? Swim? Exercise?
@joey104102
March 4, 2025 at 11:08 pm
This guy has maybe the craziest accent i have ever heard and I can’t even begin to place it 😂 I think i love it.
@NomeDeArte
March 4, 2025 at 11:29 pm
How BS is not mentioned that was the Turks the one that rescued all the Greek knowledge.
@yogalandawellnessyolandati7654
March 5, 2025 at 12:50 am
I spent the whole video, not only learning, but also trying to figure out this accent. He’s history’s Moira Rose!
@abbasahmedlp
March 5, 2025 at 6:34 am
Thanks for your education…. 👍
@seansilence2697
March 5, 2025 at 7:58 am
Belladonna is still used in eyedrops today. Though, to a much, much smaller extent.
@Rae-oj3fm
March 5, 2025 at 12:02 pm
With the Mona Lisa he was able to convey her eyes smiling more than her actual face structure. So beautiful
@Nojintt
March 5, 2025 at 12:25 pm
Can we start doing these off of Blue Sky?
@nereafcr
March 5, 2025 at 12:35 pm
Not to deny the Portuguese achievements, but he extremely downplayed the Spanish ones.
@lowroar5127
March 5, 2025 at 12:51 pm
I almost cried listening to him speak. What a beautiful and intelligent man.
@claudiacarolina6125
March 5, 2025 at 12:56 pm
Adored this video!! Bring this guy back!!
@abbydev
March 5, 2025 at 3:54 pm
This was absolutely fascinating. Thank you so much. You are incredible.
@onemouthymerc
March 5, 2025 at 3:55 pm
ah yes, the “I wouldn’t bang her, so she is therefore worthless” argument.
@AllenSJ5
March 5, 2025 at 6:18 pm
Fantastic video!
@saritacruz3020
March 5, 2025 at 7:16 pm
What accent does this dude have?
@ThePhilocrates
March 5, 2025 at 8:15 pm
The person asking if Shakespeare was a real person has me questioning humanity, and whether or not we’re filled with idiots too stupid to live. Good job, you’ve made me support eugenics.
@red1986507
March 5, 2025 at 9:21 pm
Fascinating talk but what IS this man’s accent?!!
@AleMaya
March 5, 2025 at 11:39 pm
I liked this guy🥹
@AndyGilleand
March 6, 2025 at 3:01 am
This dude sounds like a higher pitched John Malkovich in some ways
@mateolamuno6629
March 6, 2025 at 4:42 am
The way he pronounces some “t”s is so fake and so clearly acquired to pretend sophistication.
@LittleMew133
March 6, 2025 at 6:24 am
The dude who said it wasn’t good deeds that bring one to heaven, but faith… couldn’t be more wrong. Dude fked over western religion fr fr 😮
@tinofrank4396
March 6, 2025 at 11:51 am
i cannot believe leonardo was a chaser
@poisonousabsinthe
March 6, 2025 at 12:06 pm
I know exactly what she was thinking, and why Leonardo became obsessed with that smile. Something about the lines of: “… ma anche ‘sto vecchio frocio… Mah…”.
@tristanblake1843
March 6, 2025 at 12:21 pm
Getting a history scholar to say @yaboydlg is so 21th century
@Drizzlybear1
March 6, 2025 at 4:26 pm
This was super cool and interesting but calling it “Renaissance Support” like I’m calling in because im a time traveler who needs help existing in the Renaissance is hilarious to me for some reason .
@christophermilroy5198
March 6, 2025 at 7:01 pm
The Mona Lisa only became as famous as it is now after it was stolen in the early 20th century.
@bigmofarah9084
March 6, 2025 at 7:34 pm
Great episode, wonderful focal point but I’m not having the Mona Lisa being so popular. It’s no more worthy of acclaim than so many other treasures.
@michellebloomer4750
March 6, 2025 at 7:44 pm
What a clear speaker this gentleman is. I could listen to him talk for days.
@mcprt13
May 21, 2025 at 7:53 pm
I hope I had you as my History professor.😊
@zyxw2000
May 21, 2025 at 9:30 pm
The Mona Lisa is also famous because it was stolen or vandalized 6 times. So it was in the news a great deal.
@seriously58
May 22, 2025 at 9:20 am
I like to watch the series that WIRED puts up, but often I am stumped by the questions. Like WTF..they don’t teach this in school anymore? Also…what has happened to people? Can they not ask a polite question anymore? I understand that somebody passionate about their field of expertise wants to be polite, but that question about the Mona Lisa is just…worrysome on so many levels.
@kylesaddress
May 22, 2025 at 10:57 am
All of here is this guy saying lobster bisque over and over
@ForeverLaxx
May 24, 2025 at 10:16 am
What a crazy, jarring, and obvious edit/manipulation during the diet question. Who thought that was a good idea?
@slowride453
May 24, 2025 at 3:35 pm
THE MONA LISA IS THE FIRST THING MARKETED BY A BUNCH OF RICH PEOPLE TO GET RICHER U KNOW SAME OLD SAME OLD
@qi1gl
May 27, 2025 at 12:25 pm
18:24 “a little too far” LOL
@Heidar08
May 28, 2025 at 10:08 am
To the person who asked if Shakespeare was real: what did you imagine when his name was mentioned? Im fascinated on the mystery of what your rationale was for him to not be a real person until this moment.
@Skyeguy520
May 28, 2025 at 10:37 am
Turn the lisp down, I can barely understand you
@laurelsamuelson3764
May 28, 2025 at 11:03 pm
Re: Monsters being where we place ideas/phenomena that we don’t yet understand— I propose that even when we do figure stuff out we should still call it by a monster name. The water cycle should just be named like leviathan or something and germs should be dubbed gremlins etc. even if we understand it we’re still the ones that get to name it, science should still get to be monstrous just for fun
@tomodaphne
May 29, 2025 at 8:04 am
10:42 _He had it comin’, he had it comin’, he only had himself to blame…_
@Kebillionaire-vz7su
May 29, 2025 at 6:56 pm
What is this accent?
@mariacamilagiraldo4109
May 29, 2025 at 10:36 pm
La alimentación lo es todo. La alimentación dice que tan inteligente eres. Ellos literalmente no tenían nada! No frutas ni vegetales, no café, cero proteína. Ellos eran brutos, ellos son la base de la sociedad. Por eso somos como somos, brutos, peleones, envidiosos. Porque el cerebro está apenas recuperándose de todos esos genes de nuestros antepasados.
@VellaniF1FA-y1t
May 30, 2025 at 6:25 am
you mention coffee my friend. While coffee is not part of the Renaissance Tea certainly is! Not in the sense that it caused it, but i the sense without it would have the thinkers of the time period stuck around each other to “think” as they did in history?
This is soft history and more in jest of the video. Not to be taken totally seriously (PLEASE). Just one of those concepts of alcohol would never allow the though process of a scholar, or thinker, that tea would have. So, consequently, would we have had this outburst of thought without tea and, later, tobacco? It’s more of a fun thought.
@mikbravo
May 31, 2025 at 11:04 pm
I love how leonardo de vinci would have totally worked for Lockheed Martin today lol
@philipb2134
June 2, 2025 at 12:28 am
Is there any point in living without coffee or chocolate?
@ScarletRusch
June 2, 2025 at 3:21 pm
just want to say this guy was my professor at college and he’s a genius ! brilliant, brilliant person and love to see this video of him
@randallpetersen9164
June 3, 2025 at 4:10 pm
lf Wired opened a university with all these experts, I would enroll. In everything.
@CyPhi68
June 4, 2025 at 10:40 am
My choice for the most appealing historical portrait of a woman is Girl with a Pearl Earring by Vermeer. What is she doing? Looking over her shoulder, did someone call her name? Why does she have such a large pearl? Much more to wonder about. The Mona Lisa looks stiff and dull to me.
@too-sad-so-bad
June 4, 2025 at 2:29 pm
I am so obsessed with these~ Please could you do one with historians specializing in royalty?? 🙂
@potato.reader
June 5, 2025 at 12:40 pm
What if toxic cosmetics in renassaince was just advertised as “cosmetics” that time but actually a weapon for women self defense?
@curlee1029
June 5, 2025 at 1:27 pm
I am obsessed with the doodle Michelangelo drew of himself painting the Sistine Chapel. Really makes him more human and relatable. Love how he made what he was drawing kind of goofy-looking lol!
@Marco-f8z
June 5, 2025 at 2:35 pm
How, i mean, HOW its possible that macchiavelli still is misinterpreted.
MACCHIAVELLI WAS SARCASTIC! MACCHIAVELLI WAS SARCASTIC! MACCHIAVELLI WAS SARCASTIC! MACCHIAVELLI WAS SARCASTIC! MACCHIAVELLI WAS SARCASTIC! MACCHIAVELLI WAS SARCASTIC!MACCHIAVELLI WAS SARCASTIC! MACCHIAVELLI WAS SARCASTIC! MACCHIAVELLI WAS SARCASTIC! MACCHIAVELLI WAS SARCASTIC! MACCHIAVELLI WAS SARCASTIC! MACCHIAVELLI WAS SARCASTIC!
@sandg507
June 7, 2025 at 2:49 am
i think leonardo might be into femboys
@bensulady
June 7, 2025 at 11:40 am
Brilliant 😍