Gile. Hi, I'm Peter Adamson and you're listening to the History of Philosophy podcast, brought to you with the support of the Philosophy Department at Kings College London and the LMU in Munich, online at History of Philosophy.net.

Today's episode, depicting what cannot be depicted, philosophy and two Renaissance artworks.

Faithful listeners will know that I have Artworks.

Faithful listeners will know that I have an identical twin brother named Glenn Adamson, who studied art history and still works in the art world as a freelance author and curator.

If you caught the bonus episode I did with world as a freelance author and curator.

If you caught the bonus episode I did with him back in 2018,

you'll know that philosophical ideas are often not too far

from his writings about art and craft.

Actually, the same goes for books he's written subsequently, like

Kraft and American history, which manages to retell the entire story of the United States

with handmade objects as the central theme, and even more so a book he'll

be publishing soon on conceptions of the future throughout the 20th century. We'll do

another bonus episode about that when it comes out. All of which has led me to ponder

whether I might try my hand at writing a bit about art history,

just as he occasionally makes forays into philosophical territory.

I must be able to do it at least genetically speaking right and now I've got the perfect

chance because I wanted to do something special anyway to mark the milestone of having

reached 450 episodes.

So I thought, why not do an episode on two of the greatest artists of the period we've been covering,

and on two of the most iconic artworks of the time?

I have chosen representatives of the Northern and the Italian

Renaissance, Alderecht Jura and Michelangelo Buonarotti. As a bonus both of them

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