Best Udine Podcasts (2024)

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Ep. 48: Gothic Painting - Lorenzo Monaco and Gentile da Fabriano 26:52

5h ago26:52

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Send us a Text Message. The early 1400's in Italy saw the transition from the Gothic to the Renaissance style in painting. In major areas of patronage, be it for churches or wealthy patrons, a new style flourished that was representative of the interconnectivity between European cultures and the wider Mediterranean, one that bridges the Gothic and …

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Ep. 47: Plague and War in the Early Renaissance 28:41

14d ago28:41

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Send us a Text Message. While the idea of an entirely joyous rise of Renaissance culture might sound apt for a period known for mesmerizing art and literature, history tells a different story, one of war, of plague, and of death. This episode discusses just a small amount of the social issues that contributed to the rise of Renaissance culture in I…

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Ep. 46: Intro to the Early Renaissance - Art, Literature, and the Black Death 25:56

28d ago25:56

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Send us a Text Message. It is time to open the next chapter of our dive into Renaissance history, dialing back to look at the early Renaissance and the Proto-Renaissance. The terminology of periodization is loose and malleable, and brings to light of other renaissances that occurred throughout the Middle Ages. What is the difference between the way…

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Ep. 45: Dr. Alan Pascuzzi, Bronze Casting and "Becoming Michelangelo." 47:48

4M ago47:48

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Send us a Text Message. I am joined by the Florence based artist and art historian Dr. Alan Pascuzzi for a thrilling interview about his career as an artist following the techniques of the Renaissance masters. We first discuss the process of becoming a sculptor and painter in the Renaissance techniques. He walks us through his technical process, lo…

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Ep. 44: Frank Nero Part 2: San Martino del Vescovo 45:27

5M ago45:27

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Send us a Text Message. Join me in conversation with Frank Nero, who takes us on a journey to a hidden gem in Florence, San Martino del Vescovo. This oratory serves as a fascinating case study of the intersections between Medici power and art patronage, as well as offering a glimpse into the everyday of Florentine life in the Quattrocento. The orat…

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Ep.43: Frank Nero Part 1: Teaching Renaissance Art in Florence, Italy 45:51

5M ago45:51

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Send us a Text Message. It is with great pleasure that I welcome Frank Nero to the podcast. Nero is an art historian, award-winning educator, and former director of Florida State University Florence. He specializes in on-site lectures, having taught and inspired thousands of students during his career, myself included. The first part of this interv…

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Ep. 42: The Followers of Raphael Part 2: Giovanni da Udine, feat. Esme Garlake 32:47

5M ago32:47

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Send us a Text Message. Join me in the continuation of my conversation with ecocritical art historian and climate activist Esme Garlake. In the second part of our interview, we discuss the works of Raphael's pupil, Giovanni da Udine. Giovanni not only had an intense fascination with accurately depicting the natural world, which we discuss via his d…

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Italian Serie A Podcast: Monza beat AC Milan, Bologna win at Lazio 59:17

6M ago59:17

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Matchday 25 of this 2023/24 Serie A season saw even more excitement and twists, with Monza stealing the show by beating AC Milan 4-2 on Sunday night. This Italian Football Podcast is here to discuss all of the weekend's action. Bologna also picked up a memorable win by beating Lazio 2-1 in the capital, and Atalanta continued to look good in the rac…

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Ep. 41: The Followers of Raphael Part 1: Ecocritical Art History and Giulio Romano, feat. Esme Garlake 32:31

6M ago32:31

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Send us a Text Message. Join me in conversation in two parts with Esme Garlake, an ecocritical art historian and climate activist who centers her research on the interaction between the artist and the natural world. We are talking about two artists who were trained under Raphael, Giulio Romano and Giovanni da Udine. How do animals manifest in their…

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Ep. 40: Romeo and Juliet: The Italian Renaissance Novella that Inspired Shakespeare, feat. Michael Curtotti 46:44

6M ago46:44

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Send us a Text Message. Welcome to the Italian Renaissance Podcast Interview Series! Passionate translator Michael Curtotti joins us on the podcast to discuss the Renaissance novelliere Matteo Bandello and his Romeo and Juliet, which serves as the inspiration to the famous play by William Shakespeare. Curtotti has recently published a new translati…

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Italian Serie A Podcast: Inter beat Juventus in the Derby d’Italia to take hold of the title race 19:55

6M ago19:55

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Italian Serie A Podcast: Inter beat Juventus in the Derby d’Italia to take hold of the title race Inter beating Juventus 1-0 was the standout result on a weekend of noteworthy Serie A results, and our Italian Football Podcast is here to chat through it all. Conor Clancy and Euan Burns are together in Rome for this Italian Football Podcast recording…

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Dropped points for Juventus and AC Milan, penalty misses galore 52:05

7M ago52:05

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There were plenty of points dropped and penalties missed during Matchday 22 of the 2023/24 Serie A season, with Inter reclaiming their place at the top of the table. The Nerazzurri were 1-0 winners away at Fiorentina with Lautaro Martinez scoring his 19th goal of the season, but Nico Gonzalez produced a truly awful penalty miss that stopped his tea…

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Inter and Juventus need to dig in, Napoli hammered at Torino 47:14

7M ago47:14

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Inter were crowned Serie A's winter champions on Matchday 19 of this 2023/24 Serie A season as they scraped a dramatic and late 2-1 win at home to Hellas Verona, with Juventus overcoming difficulty as well to come from behind to beat Salernitana by that same scoreline. Two European hopefuls lost as Fiorentina stumbled at Sassuolo and Napoli were ha…

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Juventus close the gap, Bologna slip in Udine 47:21

7M ago47:21

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The title of winter champions isn't quite yet in the back for Serie A table-toppers Inter after their 1-1 draw with Genoa on Matchday 18 allowed Juventus to close the gap to just two points as the Bianconeri beat AS Roma at the Allianz Stadium 24 hours later. This Italian Football Podcast is here to chat through those games and all of the rest from…

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Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper 24:10

9M ago24:10

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Send us a Text Message. Leonardo da Vinci arrived in Milan around the year 1482. Under the patronage of Duke Ludovico Gonzaga, Leonardo painted his famous Last Supper on the wall of the refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie. Still, his technical application of paint was a failure, causing almost immediate damage to the famous work. Between his inad…

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Efficient Juventus win in Florence, misery grows for AC Milan 54:43

9M ago54:43

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Matchday 11 of the 2023/24 Serie A season saw the possible title race take on a new complexion with the headline result being AC Milan's 1-0 home defeat against an Udinese side who were yet to win a game this season. That defeat and victories for Inter and Juventus mean that things are starting to look a little bleak for Stefano Pioli and his side,…

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Ep.38: Veronese and the Inquisition 22:59

11M ago22:59

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Send us a Text Message. Season 2 Finale! For the conclusion of this treatment of Renaissance Venice, we discuss Paolo Veronese and his famous painting that enraged the Holy Inquisition: The Supper in the House of Levi. Indeed, upon completion of this painting, the forces of the Counter-Reformation descended upon Veronese, bringing him under interro…

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Ep. 37: Renovatio Urbis - Jacopo Sansovino and Pietro Aretino 24:58

12M ago24:58

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Send us a Text Message. Touted as the 'triumvirate' of sixteenth century Venice, Titian, Jacopo Sansovino, and Pietro Aretino were cultural megaliths that bolstered the ambitious city development plan under Doge Andrea Gritti. This episode explores the presence of both Aretino and Sansovino in Venice. Aretino was a famed writer, open homosexual, an…

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AC Milan and Napoli the teams to beat, surprises aplenty in Serie A 46:29

12M ago46:29

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This 2023/24 Serie A season is wasting no time at all in throwing up excitement, and we are here to talk through a Matchday 2 that saw Juventus, AS Roma, Lazio, Atalanta and Fiorentina all slip up. Napoli and AC Milan remain the teams to beat, seeing off Sassuolo and Torino respectively. The Partenopei were again fired on by Victor Osimhen, while C…

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Ep. 36: Gaspara Stampa - Venetian Renaissance Poet 27:54

12M ago27:54

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Send us a Text Message. Gaspara Stampa is among the most important poets of the Renaissance. Living in Venice, she was a central figure in the music and literary scene thriving during the sixteenth century. Her Rime, published the year of her death, give us insight to the brilliant mind of an upper class socialite with a complicated love life, far …

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Lecce stun Lazio, Belotti and De Ketelaere refind form 54:19

12M ago54:19

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The 2023/24 Serie A season is finally underway, and we didn't need to wait long for surprises to be sprung. We are here to talk through all of the Serie A Matchday 1 action. After Napoli had overcome an early scare at Frosinone to win and Inter subsequently saw off Monza, both AS Roma and Lazio slipped up on Sunday against Salernitana and Lecce res…

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Ep. 35: Michelangelo in Venice 27:18

1y ago27:18

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Send us a Text Message. In 1494 upon the expulsion of the Medici from Florence, Michelangelo Buonarotti left his native city for the Republic of Venice. His stay there was brief and mostly undocumented. Yet, close comparison of source material and stylistic analysis reveals that perhaps Michelangelo was more influenced by his time in Venice than pr…

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Ep. 34: The Titian List, feat. Gee Cooper 53:13

1y ago53:13

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Send us a Text Message. With great pleasure, I welcome Gee Cooper back to the show to discuss the afterlife of Titian. Given his proliferation and international appeal, the works of Titian and his role as court painter had a ripple effect in courts throughout Europe. Among the most important figures is Charles I of England who looked to expand the …

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Ep. 33: Titian: A Life in Three Paintings 26:18

1y ago26:18

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Send us a Text Message. Known as the greatest master of the Venetian Renaissance, Titian's painting career spanned most of the sixteenth century. This episode aims to give an overview of his life and works, focusing on three paintings from three different genres: an altarpiece, a portrait, and a mythological scene. Just as they represent different …

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Ep. 32: Mehmed II and Italian Art in the Ottoman Courts 26:44

1y ago26:44

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Send us a Text Message. The conquest of Constantinople placed the Ottoman Empire at the center of the Mediterranean world. Sultan Mehmed II thrived under the cultural pluralism of his new court, procuring artists from both sides of his world: Italy and Persia. However, the Italianization of the Ottoman Empire is locked within Mehmed's reign, as the…

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Serie A 2022/23 Season in review: Glory for Napoli, loads of finals, even more kits 1:13:24

1y ago1:13:24

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The 2022/23 season of Italian football has (finally) come to a close and it is fair to say it has been an entertaining one. We had a fourth different Serie A winner in four years, which was Napoli with their first title in 33 years. There was also an additional relegation playoff at the end of the season which was not expected, as well as an Italia…

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Ep. 31: Venice and the Islamic Lands, feat. Julia Bender 36:37

1y ago36:37

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Send us a Text Message. I sat down with Julia Bender, a student and researcher of Islamic and medieval art, to discuss the relationship between the Venetian Republic and the Islamic powers that competed for mercantile control of the Mediterranean. Looking at the Mamluks and Ottomans, two major dynasties that coincide with the Renaissance period, we…

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The Serie A season that just won’t end 37:59

1y ago37:59

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The 2022/23 Serie A season is ove… nope! Before the curtain finally falls on this seemingly never-ending season, Spezia and Hellas Verona will have to do battle in a brand-new relegation playoff after both sides finished level on 31 points. That aside, the regular season has come to an end with everybody having played 38 games. There wasn’t too muc…

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Ep. 30: Giorgione and Titian: Sleeping Venus and the Venus of Urbino 31:43

1y ago31:43

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Send us a Text Message. In our third and final discussion on Giorgione, this episode covers his final work, the Sleeping Venus, which was finished by Titian upon his death. A close look at the history of this painting helps understand the development of Titian's style in light of Giorgione, which ultimately arrives at his most famous work, the Venu…

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Juventus hit with 10-point deduction, Cremonese relegated 45:21

1y ago45:21

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Matchday 36 was action packed for issues both on and off the field, with Juventus’ 10-point deduction overshadowing everything else to have taken place over the weekend, even with Cremonese officially suffering relegation from Serie A to immediately return to Serie B. Juventus’ off-field issues might have played a part as they fell to a 4-1 hammeri…

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Ep. 29: Giorgione's Tempest, feat. Professor Monika Schmitter 32:31

1+ y ago32:31

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Send us a Text Message. I sat down with Venetian Renaissance expert Monika Schmitter to discuss the enigmatic Tempest by Giorgione. Why is this image so difficult to define? What is the current state of scholarly interpretation of its form and function? This interview covers the complicated history of the painting, in part responding to Prof. Schmi…

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Serie A's Champions League fight changes shape... Again 42:58

1+ y ago42:58

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With the six teams fighting over three Champions League qualification spots all facing each other, it was sure to be an important weekend of action in Serie A. Whilst AC Milan, AS Roma and Juventus secured vital wins, things are starting to look bleak for Spezia at the bottom. There was also more racial abuse in the stands to discuss, this time con…

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Ep. 28: Giorgione 28:42

1+ y ago28:42

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Send us a Text Message. This episode explores Giorgione -Giorgio da Castelfranco - a founding artist of the Venetian High Renaissance. Although he lived a short life, the impact of his art echoes throughout the history of Venetian art. With influences like Giovanni Bellini, Leonardo da Vinci and Francesco Petrarch, his pictorial style is elaborated…

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Napoli miss the chance to claim record-breaking scudetto… for now 44:24

1+ y ago44:24

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Napoli could and should have sealed their third scudetto on Matchday 32 of this Serie A season, and Inter’s win over Lazio put it on a plate for the Partenopei. Needing just a win at home to Salernitana, Napoli conceded late to put the champagne back on ice… not that the city of Naples got the memo. Back from the Stadio Giuseppe Meazza, Conor Clanc…

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Ep. 27: Venetian Sculpture - The Lombardo Workshop 25:28

1+ y ago25:28

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Send us a Text Message. The Lombardo family workshop in Venice was the most prominent in the city for the development of Renaissance sculpture. This episode looks briefly at the history of the family before taking a more focused look at the works of Tullio Lombardo and how he revolutionized sculpture in Venice. What happens when classical revival c…

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Everybody slips up… again 53:13

1+ y ago53:13

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It’s starting to look like nobody in Serie A wants to finish in the top four and qualify for next season’s Champions League, and Matchday 30 again saw everybody but AS Roma slip up in pursuit of the remaining places behind Napoli and Lazio. Juventus lost at Sassuolo, AC Milan drew at Bologna and Inter lost at home to Monza. Napoli themselves drew 0…

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