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Ch. 3 (the Renaissance).
Highlights: Giotto & Dante: a fusion of pagan and Christian (sorry, Tertullian; credits to Aquinas).
Bruneschelli, master of space; Michelangelo’s not-that-David David (but also note shift later in life and relationship with a Reformation-adjacent woman). da Vinci’s “every man is a machine.”
In sum, shocker: the Renaissance couldn’t paint or math its way to the universals.
— Oct 05, 2026 06:18PM
Highlights: Giotto & Dante: a fusion of pagan and Christian (sorry, Tertullian; credits to Aquinas).
Bruneschelli, master of space; Michelangelo’s not-that-David David (but also note shift later in life and relationship with a Reformation-adjacent woman). da Vinci’s “every man is a machine.”
In sum, shocker: the Renaissance couldn’t paint or math its way to the universals.
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