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So when you start to study art history, you basically fall into two categories.

Those who love the Italian Renaissance because the art is really, really beautiful and so deeply human.

And those who pretend they don't because yawn, right?

Enjoy your pouty loser.

I prefer my coffee black with ashes of German expressionist fire.

I, of course, pretended I was the latter in college, you know, to be cool.

But it was only more recently that I dove back into the Renaissance and realized how totally fascinating it is.

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Again, that's the Great Courses Plus.com slash Lately. The forest of cloth coming from the ceiling, There are columns of white fluffy fabric that are in knots in some

places and projected onto this fabric is colors that are slowly moving downwards.

The colors are red and yellow and white. The sounds are ethereal and they sound like

whispers and it almost sounds like they're in my head. The scale is huge. It is. Very big. Like I'm feeling smaller because the

scale is so big of these huge knots. They don't look like pieces of cloth

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