An approach in study, philosophy, world view, or practice that focuses on human values and concerns, attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters.

Worldly, pertaining to the material (as opposed to the spiritual or religious); non-religious in nature; not belonging to a religious order.

Technique that allows an artist to show objects as they appear at various distances from the viewer.

The art of using words effectively in speaking or writing.

An Italian historian, diplomat, philosopher, humanist and writer based in Florence during the Renaissance. He was a founder of modern political science. Author of The Prince.

An Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer who epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal.

English Renaissance writer and playwright, he is considered by many to be the greatest English writer of all time.

German printer, he developed a printing press that used movable type. Gutenberg’s first publication was a 1,282-page Bible.

Dutch priest, he published In Praise of Folly in which he criticized corrupt clergy. His criticisms helped inspire the Protestant Reformation.