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Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty
Rivalry
Season 2025
Episode 2
Against a backdrop of political upheaval in Florence, Michelangelo and Leonardo jostle for artistic supremacy. But the arrival of the young prodigy Raphael threatens both men.
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Michelangelo battles Raphael for Papal favor as violent religious schisms engulf Europe.
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Michelangelo and Leonardo struggle to win work in the brutal world of Renaissance Italy.