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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

By Julie Poppen With topics ranging from art history to humanism, CU on the Weekend invites the public to learn about the value of the arts and humanities in modern society with free community ...