When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. List of Renaissance figures - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Renaissance_figures

    Leonardo da Vinci, the archetype of the Renaissance man. This is a list of notable people associated with the Renaissance. Artists and architects Filippo ...

  3. Leonardo Bruni - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_Bruni

    Leonardo Bruni [a] or Leonardo Aretino (c. 1370 – March 9, 1444) was an Italian humanist, historian and statesman, often recognized as the most important humanist historian of the early Renaissance. [1] He has been called the first modern historian. [2]

  4. Renaissance - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance

    [11] [12] The beginnings of the period—the early Renaissance of the 15th century and the Italian Proto-Renaissance from around 1250 or 1300—overlap considerably with the Late Middle Ages, conventionally dated to c. 1350–1500, and the Middle Ages themselves were a long period filled with gradual changes, like the modern age; as a ...

  5. Dancer Megan Batoon is proving to be a modern-day Renaissance ...

    www.aol.com/entertainment/2016-06-16-dancer...

    Megan Batoon is a talented dancer, seasoned actor, and viral YouTube star who somehow manages to juggle three different careers with complete ease. You can just call her a modern-day Renaissance ...

  6. Polymath - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymath

    When someone is called a "Renaissance man" today, it is meant that rather than simply having broad interests or superficial knowledge in several fields, the individual possesses a more profound knowledge and a proficiency, or even an expertise, in at least some of those fields. [13]

  7. Fashion influencer Rima Vaidila is proving to be a modern-day ...

    www.aol.com/lifestyle/2016-02-23-fashion...

    To be frank, she's a modern-day fashion Renaissance woman. Ahead, we talked exclusively to Rima to tell us her biggest fashion breakthrough moment, her personal sense of style, and more.

  8. Leonardo da Vinci - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci

    Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci [b] (15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519) was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. [3]

  9. Petrarch - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrarch

    Santa Maria della Pieve in Arezzo La Casa del Petrarca (birthplace) at Vicolo dell'Orto, 28 in Arezzo. Francis Petrarch (/ ˈ p ɛ t r ɑːr k, ˈ p iː t-/; 20 July 1304 – 19 July 1374; Latin: Franciscus Petrarcha; modern Italian: Francesco Petrarca [franˈtʃesko peˈtrarka]), born Francesco di Petracco, was a scholar from Arezzo and poet of the early Italian Renaissance and one of the ...