Renaissance scholars
Fifteenth-century learned Europeans
Renaissance scholars were the intellectuals of the European Renaissance (roughly 14th–17th centuries) who pursued learning across multiple disciplines—philosophy, literature, art, science, and classical languages.
The term evokes polymaths like Leonardo da Vinci or Erasmus, who embodied the era's ideal of broad humanistic education.
Today it may describe anyone studying that period: Renaissance scholars have debated the painting's attribution for decades.
- Giordano BrunoRenaissance cosmological heretic
- ErasmusDutch Renaissance humanist
- Leonardo da VinciItalian artist-scientist-engineer
- classical antiquityGreco-Roman historical period
- PetrarchMedieval Italian lyric poet
Galileo Galilei · Nicolaus Copernicus · natural philosophy · Tycho Brahe · Thomas More · Johannes Kepler · Francis Bacon · Titian · printing press · Donatello · Hieronymus Bosch · Sandro Botticelli · René Descartes
Renaissance scholarsChurch Fathers
Authoritative early Christian theologians
Renaissance scholarsilliterates
People unable to read
anti-intellectuals · philistines · barbarians · iconoclasts · vandals
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