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Afua and Peter explore the "Great Famine" of the early 1300s. Triggered by sudden global cooling and torrential rains, Europe's food supply was decimated and up to 70% of its cattle were wiped out through a terrifying bovine plague. This often-overlooked catastrophe didn't just c ...  Show more

A sudden, catastrophic dimming of the sun in 536 AD triggered the coldest decade in two millennia, launching a "volcanic winter" that saw harvests fail from Ireland to China. Peter and Afua explore this environmental shock that directly facilitated the first global pandemic of Ye ...  Show more

Pablo Picasso was among the most influential artists of the 20th century and Guernica is possibly his greatest work. While I am not a fan of Picasso as a person, his significance as an artist is undeniable. Related Episodes: Pablo Picasso Art Thief? Art Smart: Cubism Check ou ...  Show more

Rastlos war er bis ins hohe Alter. Maler, Bildhauer, Zeichner, Lithograph, Keramiker. Pablo Picasso hat neue Stile wie den Kubismus mit entwickelt. Seine spanische Heimat liebte er, doch das Spanien Francos hasste er abgrundtief. 

In the summer of 1951 a young art historian called John Richardson met one of the greatest painters of the modern era. Richardson was part of Picasso's circle in the South of France for the rest of the 1950s and then spent the rest of his life writing the definitive biography of ...  Show more

Cet épisode a mis du temps à arriver, mais c’était le temps nécessaire pour digérer et retranscrire tout ce qu’il y a à dire sur Picasso (enfin presque).Figure du génie par excellence, Picasso est une icône quasi-intouchable, que des centaines d’expositions et de records en salle ...  Show more