It is this personal awareness and aliveness in celebrating or defending our own individualism and that of other individuals (as individuals, not as groups) that makes humanism — a focus on human ...

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.

Not only did Renaissance-era Italians appreciate the greats of the ancient world, they considered themselves in the same league. Renaissance humanism ruled.

Renaissance humanism ruled. Although the Italian Renaissance sputtered out by 1600, by then people from around the world were already coming to see its masterpieces.

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 secular world is a continuation of Renaissance humanism, but what do the roots of this tradition tell us about its chances for survival in this unnamable present?

That study is what the Renaissance was all about: the great art of the era came from the rediscovery of the ancient world and the application of its genius to the present. Renaissance humanism formed ...

And of course, that dialogue, that connection, that total curiosity and exploration of what life can be for us, goes right back to the Renaissance – and humanism.