Raphael\'s \"School of Athens\" is considered by many art historians to be the absolute masterpiece of the Renaissance. It is the perfect pictorial counterpart to the enormous changes in thinking that came about in the 1300s as a result of economic and technological developments. Its rational perspe...

Saint Thomas AquinasThe Life of a SaintSaint Thomas Aquinas, the patron saint of schools, was a university teacher, a philosopher and a theologian whose ideas and written works regarding philosophy and religion will be studied for years to come. He was born in 1225 and died in 1275 and in those 50 ...

LEONARDO DA VINCI AND ARISTOTLEI believe that Aristotle and Leonardo da Vinci led similar lives. They both sought for knowledge and studied similar topics. I think that both were "renaissance men", as it would be described in Leonardo's day. This refers to the fact that both men studied a variety of...