HELP! What does it mean to be a "Renaissance Man"? Cite an example of a "Renaissance Man", discussing how...?

Question

..this figure exemplifies that ideal (from Leanardo, Brunelleschi or Michelangelo)

Answer 1

The way we use it today, a Renaissance man describes a person is talented in a wide variety of different area. Whereas a "specialist" knows a lot about one thing, a Renaissance man know a little bit about everything, meaning he is well rounded.

Answer 2

Hi there,

Well the term "Renaissance Man" is applied to a person that gathers a lot of skills and jobs, for example, architect, mathematician, chemist, painter, sculptor, designer, physicist and so on. This term is applied to them since an educated person in the times of the renaissance usually covered all those areas. Definitively one of the most famous "Renaissance men" was Leonardo, the reason is quite obvious, just take a look at his creations and notes on every scrapbook.



Hope to have been useful.

By the way, sorry if my English is not good enough.

Answer 3

Renaissance is a French word meaning "rebirth". A "Renaissance man", like Leonardo da Vinci, contributed the the rebirth of Italy, changing the conventions of art. He was a revolutionary thinker and a brilliant mind, raising the expectations of art and artists. Leonardo was also an inventor, a sculpture, a scientist, an engineer, and a painter amongst other things. He helped bring about reason and an interest in learning and intellect after a time of fear, illiteracy, superstition and death that plagued the Dark Ages. He was one of a kind, setting new standards and paving the path for artists and great thinkers to come.

Answer 4

If you do your own homework; you, too, can become a polymath. Hidegard of Bingen was a pre-Renaissance "Renaissance woman."

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