Bringing a Love of Renaissance Art to Life in The Immortal John Triptych

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Category: Games May 1, 2026 Bringing a Love of Renaissance Art to Life in The Immortal John Triptych Xavier Stambaugh, Marketing Lead at Akapura Games Mention the word Renaissance and the modern person will think one of three things: Shakespeare, Ratatouille, or little summer fairs you go to watch men in shiny metal suits jump and wallow around in mud exclaiming “FOR THE KING,” gasping for air.

The actual age of the Renaissance, a sweeping revival of culture, arts, and philosophical innovation, has been stripped of its oomph . Reduced down into the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Monty Python, and a rotating door of Shakespeare adaptations nobody asked for – we’re looking at you Kenneth Branagh’s “Hamlet.” And yet, birthed out of the wonderfully weird mind of Joe Richardson, a revolution was soon to take shape.

He unknowingly took upon himself the burden of dragging the Renaissance into a new frontier, video games, developing what would become his critically acclaimed trilogy: Four Last Things, The Procession to Calvary, and Death of the Reprobate . Alone in his Edinburgh apartment, later London, Joe studied Illustration with the ultimate goal of becoming an artist, fine-tuning his craft and channeling his inner Picasso all the while.

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