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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The grandeur of art. The nature of well-being. The power of geometry. The ideals of the Renaissance. The beauty of the human body. The creative potential of the human mind. The most ...

The art historical term ‘Northern Renaissance’ covers a broader area ... a great many artists and thinkers across Northern Europe put humanist thought at the center of their endeavors.

goes right back to the Renaissance – and humanism. It’s that aspect of the movement that gets me excited: celebrating being alive and being human. Art is just a vehicle in that exploration.

Here, amid the corrosive flow of dehumanization, was the very image of a defiant humanist. Here was a person ... Brooks’s How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply ...

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 programs beginning ...