The Renaissance—from art-loving popes to Leonardo’s Mona Lisa and Michelangelo’s David—celebrated humanism and revolutionized how we think about our world. Around 1400, Europe rediscovered ...

The Renaissance—from art-loving popes to Leonardo’s Mona Lisa and Michelangelo’s David—celebrated humanism and revolutionized how we think about our world. Around 1400, Europe rediscovered ...

Towering at over 16 feet tall and weighing in at more than 12,000 pounds, Michelangelo’s marble David is colossal ... any other artist,” boasted Renaissance art historian Giorgio Vasari ...

1437–45); right: David Hockney, "My Parents" (1977 ... both in stark contrast to the oil-based sfumato that dominates later Renaissance art. Hockney’s letters and musings are threaded ...

is required to teach about Renaissance art in sixth grade. But three parents complained that the lesson’s content, which included learning about Michelangelo’s sculpture “David” and the ...

His sculpture David became an icon of Renaissance ... the more rigid religious themes of medieval art and reflecting the Renaissance spirit of humanism and classical revival.