Alexandra York Alexandra is the founding president of American Renaissance for the Twenty-first Century (ART), a NYC-based 501 (C) (3) nonprofit educational foundation devoted to a rebirth of beauty ...

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.

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 ...

This time, it's the art of the Florentine Renaissance, with a star-studded cast from art-loving princes and popes to "Mona Lisa" to Michelangelo's "David." Thanks for joining us.

Since then each fragmentary restoration has added new proof of the power and achievement of Byzantine religious art between the 4th and 15th centuries A.D.

It was designed in the mid-15th century by Leon Battista Alberti, who, together with Filippo Brunelleschi, mostly invented the classicizing humanist language of Renaissance architecture.

Italy was, after all, the birthplace of humanism. Thanks to Wilhelm von Humboldt, one of Bakewell’s many subjects, Germany had the model of a humanist education system in the early 20th century.