He uses art and biographical sketches of key figures to illuminate the narrative and concludes with an account of the limitations of humanism at the end of the Renaissance. The revised edition ...

With the synthesis of vital form and formal beauty which marked the birth of Humanism, the Greek sculptors ... into its expression in creating a work of art. But consciousness of the universal ...

This book explores how machinery and the practice of mechanics participated in the intellectual culture of Renaissance humanism. Harnessing the discipline of mechanics to their literary and ...