Portraits reflected the values of Renaissance humanism alongside economic changes that allowed wealthy families to commission their own paintings. Prior to the Renaissance in Europe, most art was ...

Few would argue against the fact that the Renaissance period produced some of the most beautiful art the world has ever seen.

1536), the Dutch humanist, François Rabelais (1483?-1553), a humanist of the French Renaissance, and Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592), an influential philosopher of the French Renaissance ...

The Renaissance era was one of the most beautiful and out-of-the-world revolutions in the arts arena. Be it unique painting techniques or flourishing artists like da Vinci and Sandro Botticelli ...

COMMENTARY: Why did Catholic historian Christopher Dawson fear a post-Christian world? His writings offer a sobering critique ...

Following the Dark Middle Ages, which saw few advancements, the Renaissance era promoted the rediscovery of classical philosophy, literature, and art. This push created the humanism movement ...

A new Renaissance must come in which mankind discovers ... Institute founders saw as a limitation to the advancement of humanism: “Is there any reason,” asked Hutchins in his 1949 speech ...

This lecture revisits the emergence of a humanist ideal of the body through the lens of disability material culture. I investigate the double role of plate armor in shaping a normative body while at ...

The dictionary of New Humanism, provides information in the explanation of two entries (historical moment and humanist moment), which can help us to rescue and recognize those humanist moments of our ...