polymath
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"I like facts, I like knowledge, I like having wide interests. There's various ways of describing such a person, dilettante might be one way and polymath might be another."
From BBC
It’s hardly surprising that there’s a strong market for books and articles claiming to demystify the painting’s creator, even though not much is definitively known about the Italian polymath.
More than once in “The Inventor,” an animated feature about Leonardo da Vinci, powerful patrons tell that Renaissance polymath to behave “like a good little artist.”
From New York Times
Everything else can be chalked up to the difficulty inherent to being a polymath, a price enough people are willing to deal with if it gets us to Mars in our lifetimes.
From Salon
Composer/conductor/polymath Eric Banks founded The Esoterics while he was a graduate student in choral studies at the University of Washington in the early 1990s.
From Seattle Times
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