The Renaissance, spanning the 14th to 17th centuries, marked a pivotal "rebirth" in Europe, transitioning from the Middle Ages to modernity. This period witnessed a resurgence of classical learning, ...

Now, in Florence’s hour of peril, it was high time that an equally, if not more, dazzling pair should be cast for the north ...

The Renaissance she describes has many sources ... and again in the life of the humanist Angelo Poliziano, “a physically tiny man but not too tiny to help,” who “jumped between Lorenzo ...

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The Renaissance “Humanist” was a foe of medieval scholastic philosophy, an admirer of the Greek and Latin classics. Now Humanist means a believer in an ethical nonreligion, in which the ...

are interested in such earlier phases of the Western humanist movement as Roman antiquity and Renaissance Italy. They dismiss this scholarship as “a largely Euro-American exercise in navel ...

Devoting his life to the innovative integration of science and art, Da Vinci was deeply influenced by the essence of ...

Many people today think the definition of a humanist is the same as a humanitarian. They are not entirely wrong. But this conception leaves out at least one major qualification: in the eyes of the ...

Appropriate, then, for Dürer, who wasn’t just among the greatest German artists of the 16th century, but an indispensable theorist of humanism during the Northern Renaissance as well.

Near the start of her account of humanism, Sarah Bakewell draws an important distinction. Anti-humanists, she writes, despise the material world and seek either to escape it using religion or ...