Leonardo da Vinci Our Contemporary?
This essay polemicizes with a number of historians who claim that the European Renaissance has either “failed” or “continues to recede from us at an accelerating rate” (Burke 1998: 41; Barzun 2000; Bouswma 2002). I explore and revalue the ideas and representations of Renaissance humanism and the way...
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Worldviews
Year: 2014, Volume: 18, Issue: 2, Pages: 122-143 |
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Leonardo da Vinci
eco-humanism
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Renaissance humanism
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