Renaissance man
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Or it could simply indicate that collectors feel safer splurging on a household-name artist like Rembrandt, a Renaissance man famed for his pensive, realistic self-portraits in earthen hues.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026
“He was a war hero and a Renaissance man that did math theorems while he was in Congress and who could recite Homer from memory,” he says.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2025
Charles is at once a Renaissance man and a Luddite.
From Salon • Nov. 21, 2024
Now, the composer Joseph Boulogne would be hailed as a Renaissance man: artist, athlete, intellectual, soldier.
From New York Times • Jan. 22, 2024
Today, there’s a term for this range of talents: a Renaissance man.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
