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Article: Renaissance and academe: the elusiveness of the Da Vinci ideal. (Leonardo Da Vinci, interdisciplinary knowledge)
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- National Forum
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- March 22, 1989
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Renaissance and Academe
The Elusiveness of the Da Vinci Ideal
During the Renaissance, Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494) proclaimed that "man" was little lower than the angels, capable through free will not only of lifting himself to God but of becoming God, with all of God's knowledge and wisdom. Though this assertion brought Pico close to the heretic's fire, it typified the dazzling optimism of the Renaissance, as epitomized by Leonardo Da Vinci, who was simultaneously a painter, philosopher, writer, cosmologist, and especially engineer of profound proportions. The knowledge of this "Renaissance man" was not only remarkable in its spread but in its ...
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