The wealth of Siena’s visual culture is represented with illuminated manuscripts; sculptures in marble, ivory, terracotta and ...

However, one similarity remained steadfast – like the Italian Renaissance, a great many artists and thinkers across Northern Europe put humanist thought at the center of their endeavors.

During the Renaissance a series of significant shifts in our understanding of the human body took place. Increasing knowledge of human anatomy formed a bridge between science and art – new ...

It was this achievement of a true idealism in art which gave the world Humanism, and which was the unique achievement of Greek culture, Read said. He offered the figures on the frieze of the ...

His particular bent is the relation of Humanism to Renaissance political and social thought. Currently he is preparing a study on "Freedom and Determinism in Renaissance Historians." Because his ...

Reimagining the Renaissance explores the Northern and ... understanding of composition and realism and the rise of humanism.’ Art Gallery Board Chair, Sandy Verschoor says, ‘Don’t miss ...