However, one similarity remained steadfast – like the Italian Renaissance, a great many artists and thinkers across Northern Europe put humanist thought at the center of their endeavors.

Though the humanist program wound up affecting most educated Europeans ... Nano Chatzidakis - University of Ioannina "Renaissance Art After Byzantium: The Revival of the Antique in 15th and 16th ...

It was this achievement of a true idealism in art which gave the world Humanism, and which was the unique achievement of Greek culture, Read said. He offered the figures on the frieze of the ...