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Jul 2024
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HoP 450 - Depicting What Cannot Be Depic...

PETER ADAMSON
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To celebrate reaching 450 episodes, Peter looks at the philosophical resonance of two famous artworks from the turn of the 16th century: Dürer’s Self-Portrait and Michelangelo’s paintings in the Sistine Chapel.

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