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Da Vinci & Mysteries of the Renaissance

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4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
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Format Color, Multiple Formats, NTSC, Box set
Language English
Number Of Discs 6
Runtime 9 hours
Publication Date May 10, 2005
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  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated)
  • Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.83 x 5.59 x 3.43 inches; 1.25 Pounds
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Color, Multiple Formats, NTSC, Box set
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 9 hours
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ May 10, 2005
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Questar
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0009IW8KS
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 6
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings

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Vernon L Bolden
5.0 out of 5 stars Very well produced.
Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2022
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I enjoyed all of this, informative, and entertaining.
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GG
5.0 out of 5 stars A good timeline for Da Vinci fans
Reviewed in the United States on December 16, 2019
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I really enjoyed this series - it provides a good timeline into his life and what it would have been like. Its hard to find much material for this period and this person so many viewing hours is quite welcome.
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delia ruhe
4.0 out of 5 stars There are history books, you know
Reviewed in the United States on December 15, 2016
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I don’t know why one must continue to say this to people who complain about 50-minute documentary films on well-researched and prolifically documented historical periods (e.g., the Renaissance) being “too superficial,” “lacking in substance,” “fit only for high school,” “too conventional.” You only need half a brain and 5 minutes of reasonable thought to figure out that all one can expect, and all the filmmakers hope to spark in 50 minutes are a few tantalizing ideas that just might get viewers off the couch and into their public libraries to go deeper. I’d still be happy if such films only got them googling for more.

I have only just ordered this particular set, so I haven’t seen how exactly it reproduces some/all of the episodes in that series called *Renaissance*. But I am happy to find that it found its way to DVD, as I have access only to the series on VHS. It was made for PBS in the 1990s and based on the book *Renaissance Lives* (1993) by Princeton Professor of History Theodore Rabb (now Emeritus). Now, Rabb’s work is the perfect example of mainstream, well-researched, widely-received, eminently readable, if conventional, academic histories of early modern Europe. Ian Richardson’s sonorous, Oxford-English-accented introductions to the episodes give the series away as intended to defend that view against the 25-year tsunami of postmodern, deconstructive, paradigm-shifting critiques of just such conservative, old-school histories as Rabb and his generation of historians write/wrote.

At the time of the PBS broadcast, I was teaching an undergraduate Cultural Studies course on the many intersections of misogyny and antisemitism in Western culture, and I used some of the episodes of *Renaissance* as introductions in the course unit on the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Like all the films I used in my courses, this series provided young students, fed since birth on a diet of screen-delivered information and entertainment, with the visual jolt they need to get interested in a course unit that they might otherwise sit out in the campus pub. Over the years, at least one student per term, and sometimes several, have fetched Rabb’s book from the library and cited him in their essays, sometimes for his erudition, other times for what he leaves out. When students start asking where the episodes/chapters called “The Witch” and “The Court Jew” are, you know the films have done at least some of the work for which you’d screened them in class.

So for all the Amazon reviewers who love to fill up the webpages on documentary films with the blindingly obvious, get off your butts and read history books instead of expecting the 50-minute doc to feed you with everything you need to know on a historical period.
7 people found this helpful
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Hazel
5.0 out of 5 stars DaVinci & Mysteries
Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2014
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History is very much of interest to me as try to become more acquainted with pieces of history that I am not familiar. It seems as time passes, what I have learned in the past has become fuzzy. I like having references that I can restore sections of history that I should have remembered from my time in school. Thanks for making this section of history available.
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Vassilios A.
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic video about the Master.
Reviewed in the United States on June 11, 2017
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Beautiful biography and detailed material of this Great Renaissance Artist, Philosopher, and Inventor of a Man. I highly recommend it.
Vasya - Los Angeles
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Horia Groza
3.0 out of 5 stars Not enough substance
Reviewed in the United States on September 22, 2013
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The information is too general and superficial. A lot of words about the attitude to innovate but not enough about the actual innovations. The advantage of a DVD is that, when you do not understand something, you can rewind and watch again until you understand. Therefore I prefer more emphasis on the actual contribution of the personalities described. The level of the presentation should be above high school level. If it is well explained, it will eventually become understandable for everybody. Bad idea to have actors interpreting the attitude and thoughts of the personalities discussed; preferably to accompany the reading voice not with the image of an actor who does not look at all like the personality presented, but with pictures of the real appearance of the personality and images from the time that personality lived. I would also like to hear more about the thinking in the society and of the other artists and scientists of that time than to hear various people of our time talking in general about the pleasure and courage to come with a new idea, without any actual exemplification.
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Rosa Mary Lerner
5.0 out of 5 stars Incredible material!!!
Reviewed in the United States on October 27, 2012
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I purchased them like a tool for my classes. I am very happy because I have a lot of different points of views, excellent images and interesting stories. I recommend strongly this product!
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Joselyn Mullaney
5.0 out of 5 stars Da Vinci biography and masterworks
Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2012
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That is exactly the DVD I wanted. About his biography and masterworks. Da vinci was a genius. If you like art,
buy it when you can.
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