HoP 361 - The Measure of All Things - Renaissance Mathematics and Art
December 6th, 2020
The humanist study of Pythagoras, Archimides and other ancient mathematicians goes hand in hand with the use of mathematics in painting and architecture.
HoP 353 - The Good Place - Utopias in the Italian Renaissance
July 12th, 2020
Tommaso Campanella’s “The City of the Sun” and other utopian works of the Italian Renaissance describe perfect cities as an ideal for real life politics.
Bonus Episode - Glenn Adamson on Material Intelligence
August 11th, 2018
Peter's twin brother Glenn Adamson discusses the philosophical implications of craft.
HoP 303 - Don’t Picture This - Iconoclasm
June 17th, 2018
Is it idolatry to venerate an icon of a saint, or of Christ? The dispute leads the Byzantines to ponder the relation between an image and its object.
HoP 298 - Renaissance Men - Ramon Llull and Petrarch
March 25th, 2018
The Renaissance ideals of humanism and universal science flourish already in the medieval period, in the works of Petrarch and Ramon Llull.
HoP 255 - Andreas Speer on Medieval Aesthetics
June 5th, 2016
Does medieval art tell us anything about medieval theories of aesthetics? Peter finds out from Andreas Speer.
