According to research published in Oxford Bibliographies, it spread to the rest of Europe in the mid-15th century and by the 16th century, it was the dominant intellectual movement.

A 16th-century painting stolen from an English manor house and later recovered at a bus stop has sold for an astonishing $22.3 million. “The Rest on the Flight into Egypt,” is an early work by ...

Holbein the Elder was an artist of the late-Gothic period and style, focusing largely on altarpieces and religious works. He did, however, begin to move toward more Renaissance-style humanism in ...

In 2010, she had a breakout hit with “How To Live,” an experimental biography of the 16th-century French essayist Michel de Montaigne that brought a cheeky, self-help-inflected wit to the subject.

Australian sociologist John Carroll has re-worked and re-published his controversial book on Humanism, under a new title, The Wreck of Western Culture:Humanism Revisited (Scribe). The Guardian ...

She’s the artful dodger. The ex-wife of a late British baron refuses to hand over a 16th-century painting that was stolen from an Italian museum more than 50 years ago — even though she ...

The 16th-century construction emerged from reservoir waters amid a drought. An aerial view shows the normally submerged colonial-era Dominican church in Quechula, Mexico, in June, 2023.

These lectures, which will be on "Cerman Humanism of the 16th Century" are made possible by the Ropes Foundation for study of Comparative Literature. They will be given on January 22, 23, and 24.

The one-eyed pirate vs the humanist: how 16th-century empire-building turned rapacious A History of Water by Edward Wilson-Lee is a revelatory study of two Portuguese adventurers with conflicting ...

The Article 51 of the Constitution, which states that it is the duty of every citizen to develop scientific temper, spirit of inquiry and humanism, is not given the importance it deserves.