Man, The Measure of All Things

Protagoras, the C5th Greek philosopher, who believed ‘Man is the measure of all things’, was the inspiration for the Renaissance humanists who blended art and science, exemplified in Leonardo de Vinci’s drawing of ‘Vitruvian Man’. The Renaissance began in Tuscany in the early C15th centred in the cities of Florence and Siena. It developed and spread to Venice then on to Rome, which was largely rebuilt in the new style during the C16th. This talk features many Italian Renaissance treasures which were to influence European architecture, painting and sculpture for many centuries afterwards, and includes stunning images of architecture, sculpture and paintings by masters such as Ghiberti, Brunelleschi, Palladio, Masaccio, Raphael, Botticelli, Michelangelo, Bernini and Leonardo da Vinci.