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Fall 2025

The Renaissance

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An Art History Course Covering The Painting and Sculpture of the Italian Renaissance

UPDATE: Recordings-Only Option is Available!

(Live classes are FULL)

Join me as I delve into my first ever "Art History" course.

In many ways this will feel like familiar TTA: reading and personally connecting to art will be the foundation. Then, we will add the element of getting to know each individual artists' spirit. Finally, the added, "art history" element will be to answer this question: "What would it be like to experience the art of Botticelli, Michelangelo, and Raphael as if we were living in their time?"

In this course, we will be trying to grasp not only the spirit of each artist, but the spirit of the culture that made it possible for these artists to thrive. We will be getting to know famous and not-so-famous artists and artworks. And we'll be trying to deeply answer the question: how would the new, great artworks have astonished and inspired you were you living during the Renaissance?

  • There are two Sections to choose from: Tuesdays or Sundays (Live Classes are FULL; Recordings-Only is available)
  • Tuesday Section is at 9pm EST/6pm PST
  • The Sunday Section is at 11am EST/8am PST
  • The first class will be on 10/21 (Tuesday Section) and 10/26 (Sunday Section)
  • There is a max of about 12 students per section

Register for Recordings

Register for the "Recordings-Only" option. (Live classes are full.) Along with having access to recordings, you can submit questions during the duration of the course.

I. Make a Payment below. It's $159 for access to all twelve class recordings.

II. After payment is made, you'll receive an email from me by the next day with information on accessing recordings.

III. Questions? Email me: luctravers@gmail.com

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Schedule and Syllabus

I. Introduction – The Medieval World and the Proto-Renaissance

   Tuesday - 10/21; Sunday - 10/26

II. Giotto – The Godfather of Storytelling

    Tuesday - 10/28; Sunday - 11/2

III. Donatello and Antonello di Messina – Humanizing Saints

    Tuesday - 11/4; Sunday - 11/16

IV. Piero della Francesca and Andrea Mantegna – Religion in a Rational World

    Tuesday - 11/11; Sunday - 11/23

V. Botticelli and Fillipo Lippi – Painting Poetry

    Tuesday - 11/18; Sunday - 11/30

VI. Leonardo – Science and Psychology

    Tuesday - 12/2; Sunday - 12/7

VII. Michelangelo – Part I: The Heroic Struggle

    Tuesday - 12/9; Sunday - 12/14

VIII. Raphael – The Apotheosis of Beauty and Mind

    Tuesday - 12/16; Sunday - 1/4

IX. Titian – A Sensual World

    Tuesday - 1/6; Sunday - 1/11

X. Tintoretto - Dramatic Flair

    Tuesday - 1/13; Sunday - 1/18

XI. Michelangelo – Part II: Self-Reflection

   Tuesday - 1/20; Sunday - 1/25

XII. Conclusion  – The Renaissance Spirit

   Tuesday - 1/27; Sunday - 2/1

More information:

  • Each class will last 90 minutes and include Q&A
  • Recordings for each class will be available
  • This syllabus is a subject to change. (The dates are pretty much set, but there will likely be some tweaks in the topics and artists.)

Luc Travers

Author, Teacher and Tour guide
For the past fifteen years I've given tours at art museums from the Louvre to the Legion of Honor. In 2006 I started teaching art appreciation to elementary and junior high students And in the summer of 2009, I decided I needed put my ideas down on paper, and so I wrote Touching The Art. Today, I teach literature and art appreciation online with Literature at our house, I give tours all over the U.S., and recently published my second book, Stories in Paint.
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