# Sandro Botticelli

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#30 Brunelleschi & The Dome I

After he finished the first set of doors, he was commissioned to make a huge bronze statue of John The Baptist by the same guild – by the cloth merchant’s guild, the Arte di Calimala. –  for the outside wall of Orsanmichele (Orsan-mikele) – (or “Kitchen Garden of St. Michael”) –  another church in …

EZ News 06/17/26

Good afternoon, I'm _____ with today's episode of EZ News. Tai-Ex opening  The Tai-Ex opened down 124-points this morning from yesterday's close, at 45,685 on turnover of $8-billion N-T. Shares in Taiwan extended momentum (延續動能) from a session earlier and closed at the day's high Tues…

EZ News 06/17/26

Good afternoon, I'm _____ with today's episode of EZ News. Tai-Ex opening  The Tai-Ex opened down 124-points this morning from yesterday's close, at 45,685 on turnover of $8-billion N-T. Shares in Taiwan extended momentum (延續動能) from a session earlier and closed at the day's high Tues…

EZ News 06/17/26

Good afternoon, I'm _____ with today's episode of EZ News. Tai-Ex opening  The Tai-Ex opened down 124-points this morning from yesterday's close, at 45,685 on turnover of $8-billion N-T. Shares in Taiwan extended momentum (延續動能) from a session earlier and closed at the day's high Tues…

Ep. 75: Pope Sixtus IV and the Sistine Chapel

Before the era of the High Renaissance, Pope Sixtus IV commissioned one of the most ambitious artistic projects of the Roman Quattrocento, the Sistine Chapel. In this episode, we explore the chapel's original decoration and the remarkable group of artists, including Botticelli, Perugino, Ghirlandai…

Botticelli: The Painter The Renaissance Forgot

He painted the most reproduced image in art history, and spent his final years convinced it was a sin. Sandro Botticelli went from painting the hanged bodies of traitors on a government wall to painting a goddess rising from the sea, sometimes for the same family. The Birth of Venus and the Primave…

S2E36: The Parable of the Two Debtors: Do You See This Woman?

Jesus is eating at the home of a Pharisee named Simon when a woman with a negative public reputation walks in and does something weird but extravagant. Through the Parable of the Two Debtors, Jesus exposes the danger of measuring our need for grace against someone else's, and asks a question that w…

Popes 1C - Sixtus

Changing the numbering system to be more suggestive of a bracket. Sixtus is the third one seed, if you will. Image: Sandro Botticelli, 1480, Pope Sixtus II Popes names Sixtus (originally Xystus): St Sixtus I 117 or 119 to 126 or 128 Martyr St Sixtus II 257 to 258 Famous martyr, in the Roman Can…

Cradle to the Cross: Liz Lev on the Pieta & Our Lady of Sorrows

Renowned art historian Liz Lev (Elizabeth-Lev.com) joins Anna Mitchell on the Son Rise Morning Show to explore how Renaissance masterworks connect the Nativity and the Crucifixion in honor of Our Lady of Sorrows. Liz breaks down how artists like Michelangelo, Giovanni Bellini, and Sandro Botticelli…

025 고대 로마의 달력 체계

현재 우리를 포함해 전 세계 대부분의 국가에서 사용하는 달력 체계는 고대 로마에서 사용하던 달력 체계가 이어져 내려온 것입니다. 7월 'July'라는 이름의 주인공 율리우스 카이사르가 기원전 45년에 태양력을 바탕으로 율리우스력을 정립했고, 1582년 교황 그레고리오 13세가 이를 개정해 그레고리력을 정립했습니다. 우리는 1895년 제3차 갑오개혁 때 그레고리력을 받아들여, 1896년 1월 1일부터 공식 역법으로 채택해 사용했습니다. (대화문) [Hoya] Why did ancient Rome start the year in…