Renaissance figure
Florentine cultural icon
A Renaissance figure is someone with wide-ranging talents or expertise across multiple fields—arts, sciences, athletics, business.
The term evokes the ideal of Renaissance-era polymaths like Leonardo da Vinci, who excelled as painter, inventor, and anatomist.
She's a true Renaissance figure—a novelist, physicist, and accomplished cellist.
Also called a Renaissance man or Renaissance woman.
- Leonardo da VinciItalian artist-scientist-engineer
- Vitruvian ManCanonical proportions illustration
- polymathMulti-domain expert
- MichelangeloFlorentine sculptor and painter
- Sistine ChapelVatican worship hall
perspective · linear perspective · humanism · Galileo Galilei · Botticelli · anatomy · patron of the arts · Raphael · chiaroscuro · astronomy · sculpture · Johannes Gutenberg · printing press · creative genius · fresco · scientific inquiry · literature · oil painting
Renaissance figurespecialist
Expert in one field
one-trick pony · monomaniac · savant · technician · hedgehog
Renaissance figurephilistine
Art-dismissing ignoramus
anti-intellectual · boor · barbarian · ignoramus · lowbrow
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