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May 2018
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Who Was the Beyoncé of Renaissance Art? ...

Sony Music Entertainment / Jonathan Van Ness
About this episode

Lisa Boutin Vitela is Assistant Professor of Art History at Cerritos College. In Jonathan’s words, she’s “most professory about the gorgeous Renaissance,” so she comes by to talk about the Ninja Turtle artists (Raphael, Donatello, Michelangelo, and Leonardo Da Vinci), plus feminist art trailblazer Artemisia Gentileschi.

Professor Boutin Vitela is on Twitter @LisaBoutin and Instagram @ProfVitela1474.

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