Sentences with phrase «renaissance humanist»

Leonardo da Vinci, (Italian: «Leonardo from Vinci») Italian painter, draftsman, sculptor, architect, and engineer whose genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist......

As to the word «utopia,» it would have been familiar to Mill's audience because it had been around for over 350 years, having been coined by Thomas More (the Renaissance humanist and writer) who combined the Greek words for «good place» (eutopia) and «no...

In some ways it is a return to the Medieval scholastic style, leaping over the Renaissance humanist reaction and all that has followed it.

A Renaissance humanist of formidable ability, he proceeded to provide a detailed Summa — something much more substantial than Melancthon's Commonplaces.

Dr. Thomas More, the narrator who is also a lineal descendant of the Renaissance humanist - saint, envisions an America on the brink of a spiritual disaster whose reality few can doubt.

The retrieval of patristic sources in the sixteenth century was not merely the happy product of Renaissance humanist learning, although of course it was that as well.

At this point in the course, I would want my students to grasp what was just beginning to become clear to the Renaissance humanists themselves: that there are fundamental commonalities between humanistic culture and Christianity that bring them together objectively, irrespective of the wishes and plans of writers, artists, and intellectuals.

This is the line of Isocrates, Cicero, Isidore, the artes liberales of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance humanists, the vision of Matthew Arnold, of some teachers of the liberal arts today, especially humanities teachers and, of course, many religious colleges.

For instance, Luther and most of the Renaissance humanists were failures, even villains, in respect to Jews.

The Renaissance humanists were not atheistic or anti-Christian, as some modern humanists are.

But since the Renaissance humanists and the Protestant Reformers were each still trying to revive the past, many see the real beginnings of modernity with people like Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626).

Not exact matches

Like the scholars of the Renaissance, these religious men saw no contradiction in being at the same time humanists.

Not the leaders of the Renaissance and not the Humanists of the sixteenth century saved the church from destruction, but Martin Luther, the revolutionary and the arch-heretic.

Rome was on the verge of urban revival but at that time was still more impressive as a memory, reliquary, symbol, and idea than as a built reality, existing «in the background of the whole humanist Renaissance.»

But just as the Constantinian Church preserved and transformed the best of the dying civilization of classical antiquity, and planted the seeds of what became the great urban culture of the high Middle Ages and the Italian Renaissance, so a post-Constantinian and ecumenical Church might preserve and transform the best features of the corrupted civilization of modernity in service to the next great culture of humanist sacramental urbanism.

Similarly, Mayernik's account of the fifteenth - century founding of Pienza by the first Renaissance - humanist pope, Pius II (born Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini), is redolent with memory and hope.

In the early modern era, the Council of Trent was a thorough and rigorous response to the developing Protestant critique of the Church, and the Renaissance was driven in part by Catholic humanists moderating the sometimes dry and legalistic scholasticism of the middle ages.

The Popes became patrons of the Renaissance and the humanists.

He expressed his own view of the importance of education to his old poet friend Eobanus in March 1523, in a letter which takes us into the Renaissance world of the humanists: «I do not intend that young people should give up poetry and rhetoric... it is through these studies, as through nothing else, that people are really well prepared for grasping sacred truths, as well as for handling them skilfully and successfully.»

If we have to find a term to define him, we would choose «humanist», since he is one of the few architects in the world capable to combine — like Renaissance's architects — outstanding technical skills, artistic sensibility, and a strong belief in the ethos of architecture and in the possibility for designers to positively influence people's life.

From about 1520, as the Northern Renaissance felt the impact of Luther's revolt against the corrupt practices of the Roman Church, a new set of aesthetics took hold, in the form of Protestant Reformation Art, which reflected the Christian agenda of the Protestant movement, which rejected the humanist art and ideology of the High Renaissance, and celebrated a more austere religious experience, with minimal decoration.

Perhaps the waning of the modern humanist subject is best captured in Desiderio's mural - sized Un» Istoria (an ironic take on Alberti's Renaissance concept of istoria which laid the foundation for Western history painting).6 Parodying figures from a classical white marble frieze in this mid-20th-century scene, a line of mental asylum patients wearing white hospital gowns stroll through the park.