Everything you thought you knew about the Renaissance isn’t wrong, but it isn’t quite right either. “We’ve all been told a misleading story,” says art critic and broadcaster Waldemar Januszczak. “It ...

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Waldemar Januszczak challenges the traditional notion of the Renaissance having fixed origins in Italy and showcases the ingenuity in both technique and ideas behind great artists such as Van Eyck, ...

Art critic Waldemar Januszczak introduces a selection of music from the Renaissance era. Show more Ahead of his BBC4 series Renaissance Unchained, art critic Waldemar Januszczak conjures up the sound ...

Vasari’s Lives is conventionally thought of as the first book of art history, not to mention the most influential art book ever written. He paid hardly any attention to the contemporary art of the ...

The BBC makes watching Arts programming feel like “homework,” the art critic Waldemar Januszczak, who is a regular presenter for the corporation, has claimed. Januszczak, whose re-evaluation of the ...

Ahead of his BBC Four series Renaissance Unchained, art critic Waldemar Januszczak conjures up the sound world of this epoch of passions and powerful religious emotions across all of Europe. The term ...