Ex Urbe Ad Astra Ep. 4: Bright and Dark Ages with historian and journalist David Perry
Ex Urbe Ad Astra
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The Layering of Meanings in Simple Images
i acually think this is one of the things that mediaeval art is particularly good at. The goal is to take an image and layer as many things on top of it as possible, rather than achieve a kind of simple narrative. Andand maybe you'll tell me that that you feel renaissance artists did that as well. I'm happy to blame both of them. Let's not say the renaissance. Let's blame petrarch, but we have to also blame brune because i'm also happy to blame brunie. That's fineaand yo.
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