Name: The Renaissance Factor Part 1
Uploaded: 2018-02-07 00:00:00
Duration: 52 min 32 s
Description: We travel with Michelangelo to the major construction site that was to become St. Peter’s Basilica, to the banking houses of the Medicis and the workshop of Johannes Gutenberg.

A look at the astounding leaps in sciences and the arts, products of the brilliant minds of the Renaissance.

We travel with Michelangelo to the major construction site that was to become St. Peter’s Basilica, to the banking houses of the Medicis and the workshop of Johannes Gutenberg.

The Renaissance Factor Part 1

We ask what the achievements during the Renaissance mean to us today, how – almost half a millennium later – we continue to benefit from the “Renaissance factor”.