Renaissance man
Jack of everything
Renaissance Man typically refers to titled works—the 1994 Danny DeVito film, books, or other media.
It may also describe a specific historical figure embodying the Renaissance ideal of broad accomplishment. (Lowercase renaissance man is the general term for a polymath.)
Tuscan capital city
- humanismPhilosophy prioritizing earthly reason
- frescoesPaintings on fresh plaster
- GutenbergPrinting press inventor's name
- reformationProcess of improving institutions
Greco-Roman historical period
- eloquencePersuasive verbal grace
- rhetoricArt of persuasive language
- virtueMoral goodness or merit
- dignityInnate personal worth
civility · citizenship · patronage · aesthetics · classicism · liberal arts · philosophy · ethics
- 1994A calendar year
- comedyWork meant to amuse
- ArmyOrganized military body
- TouchstoneCorporate naming choice
military · recruitment · teaching · Shakespeare · Hamlet
Florence
Tuscan capital city
classical antiquity
Greco-Roman historical period
dignity · civility · citizenship · patronage · aesthetics · classicism · liberal arts · philosophy · ethics · scholarship
Danny DeVito
Touchstone · military · recruitment · teaching · Shakespeare · Hamlet
- talented peopleprodigy, genius, virtuoso, maestro, savant
- versatileversatile, well-rounded, multitalented, all-rounder, multifaceted
- Italian RenaissanceAriosto, quattrocento, humanism, Petrarch, Machiavelli
- Leonardo da VinciMona Lisa, Last Supper, Vitruvian Man, Annunciation, notebooks
- PolymathsLeonardo da Vinci, Aristotle, polymath, Benjamin Franklin, Leibniz
- Outsider Intellectualsautodidact, citizen scientist, outsider artist, garage inventor, amateur historian
Renaissance manspecialist
Expert in one field
one-trick pony · monomaniac · technocrat · wonk · savant
Renaissance manphilistine
Art-dismissing ignoramus
ignoramus · boor · lowbrow · know-nothing · yahoo
Renaissance manjack of all trades
Skilled broadly, not deeply
dabbler · dilettante · amateur · incompetent · hack