The Renaissance—from art-loving popes to Leonardo’s Mona Lisa and Michelangelo’s David—celebrated humanism and revolutionized how we think about our world. Around 1400, Europe rediscovered ...

Studying the Renaissance is also crucial to understanding contemporary debates centered on post-humanism, trans-humanism, technological humanism, and the various critiques of humanism, all of which ...

Art that offers a vivid slice-of-life peek ... in all their human glory. Humanism. The Renaissance was a time of great curiosity, confidence, and bold new ideas. Leonardo, Luther, Machiavelli ...

Humanism was the particular glory of the Renaissance. The recovery ... and I do not wish to undervalue contemporary art or literature or music or philosophy. But it is difficult to recognize ...

But the work isn’t medieval; it’s early Renaissance art. As a part of the current ... “At this time you also have humanism developing in Florence, so you have this interest in learning ...

1. The Renaissance poet Francesco Petrarca (anglicized as Petrarch) was a scholar of the humanities (one meaning of “humanist”) and quite a character: affectionate, vain, pompous, riddled with ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Jason Smith: Of all the isms I could have chosen I selected Humanism because it is a word, a ...