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"Renaissance man" Definitions
  1. a person who has a lot of different skills and interests

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Who knew Mr. Cohen was such a brilliant renaissance man?
Ever the renaissance man, Underwood wears a few more hats as well.
He became more of a Renaissance man when he stopped making films.
He was a Renaissance man at the tail end of the Renaissance.
ST. PAUL — Two questions stumped J. D. Droddy, baseball's leading Renaissance man.
This interview with Aziz reveals what a Renaissance man he really is.
Leonardo, the defining figure of a Renaissance man, was known for being ambidextrous.
He&aposs laid to rest there, also a real renaissance man, like myself.
" In fact, Stein said in 2009 that his predecessor was "a Renaissance man.
Before he became a modern-day Renaissance man, Foxx was Eric Marlon Bishop.
He's also a renaissance man who DJs and races rally cars for fun.
Prince Albert was a Renaissance man, interested in everything from architecture to engineering.
FLORENCE, Italy — At Gucci, people like to call Alessandro Michele the renaissance man.
" The family notes Penny gave Mark Wahlberg his first acting job in "Renaissance Man.
The truth is that Berry is a Renaissance man, skilled at all of it.
And like the Renaissance Man, Musk sometimes has trouble translating his blueprints into reality.
You're always painted as this Renaissance man; you have all these interests, talents, skills.
Adams, a renaissance man in professional basketball, plays a subtle role in this activism.
As it turns out, Mr. Bharara is becoming something of a media Renaissance man.
" She wrote several influential books in the 19943s, including "Renaissance Man" and "Everyday Life.
Friends and colleagues described Dr. Tanton as a Renaissance man and a voracious autodidact.
He explained that she was writing a story about the renaissance man for Wired magazine.
When it comes to digital art, Kiev-based artist Aleksandr Kuskov is a Renaissance man.
"One of the phrases I use to describe the collection is Renaissance Man," says Love.
This Heisman trophy winner and longtime Tennessee Titans running back is a veritable renaissance man.
The Chinkees are the brainchild of Mike Park, a sort of punk rock Renaissance Man.
Still, this Renaissance man is, like any respectable Renaissance artist, in need of a patron.
He has an MFA and is sort of a Renaissance man; he's even cooked professionally.
He is one of the most inspired people I have ever met; a true renaissance man.
Modern renaissance man Donald Glover was on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Wednesday night.
"This man was a true Renaissance man — a fine gentleman," said the airport director, Paul Dudley.
Jazper Abellera is a yung Renaissance man based in LA and live-tweeting to the fullest.
The teen sensation is clearly a renaissance man when it comes to the TV and film industry.
"A renaissance man, Floyd was a man of many talents and areas of knowledge," the obituary states.
We're here with Ashton Kutcher, who is a Renaissance man of Hollywood and entertainment, I would say.
Shargels says aside from being a brilliant, moral and ethical attorney, Futerfas is quite the Renaissance man.
THE SEASONS IN QUINCY: FOUR PORTRAITS OF JOHN BERGER Call him a Renaissance man or a polymath.
Kimsey also proved himself to be a renaissance man with the release of a country music record.
A true Renaissance man, Leonardo experimented in various industries, constantly striving to create and engineer something new.
"This was a Renaissance man who very much lived his life to the fullest," Mr. Simmons said.
For those unfamiliar with Koma, here's the lowdown: He's a singer, songwriter and DJ. A modern renaissance man!
Time magazine didn't put him on the cover and call him "Rock's Renaissance Man" in 1986 for nothing.
But Egedy's something of a postmodern renaissance man; he endlessly creates without barriers like genre, mode, or medium.
He's a renaissance man, but the only thing people are going to see is a feminine dark body.
The rub, of course, is that lots and lots of jobs don't require a renaissance man or woman.
He's a former Marine, a killer chef, a James Beard award winner, and overall, a true Renaissance man.
Still, Swan's attempts to become a 20th-century American Renaissance man failed to stand the test of time.
Noisey: You're a renaissance man in the sense that you have your creative energies spread across multiple fields.
Roadburn 2017's guest curator is John Dyer Baizely—renowned artist, Baroness​ founder, and all-around bearded Renaissance man.
"Elon is a paragon of enthusiasm, good humor and curiosity a Renaissance man in an era that needs them."
" On Leo: "Leo's a renaissance man...I'll just say this for Leo: Don't judge a book by its hair.
This is a Renaissance man, a Machiavel, an old-school villain who believes he can get away with murder.
Krauthammer was arguably a Renaissance man, achieving mastery in such disparate fields as psychiatry, speech-writing, print journalism and television.
He will be remembered as a gentle man, generous and kind, an unprecedented visionary, a modern Pygmalion, a Renaissance man.
Reg," whittles for fun, doesn't hesitate to tell his friends he wants "me time," and calls himself "a Renaissance Man.
The study of calligraphy, poetry and traditional painting were central to the Chinese concept of the wenren, or Renaissance man.
The siblings expressed a deep admiration for Gucci's so-called Renaissance Man, its bearded and charismatic creative director, Alessandro Michele.
"Aubrey was a renaissance man, a man for all seasons," Frank Keating, a former governor of Oklahoma, said in his tribute.
With all that in mind, it's easy to see why the humble house party has become something of a renaissance man.
I'd rather my tombstone say, he helped people, he believed in people, he was an artist, he was a renaissance man.
Jamie Foxx The Renaissance Man strikes again -- this time sending NBA legend Byron Scott back to school during an impromptu shooting contest.
The neighbor, Ken Watson, was a widower and Renaissance man who had become fond of Mr. Williams's 2½-year-old daughter, Cadi.
"Recordings, movies, radio, television: He would cast his presence over them all, a mob-culture Renaissance man," Mr. Tosches wrote of Martin.
Former teammate Shaquille O'Neal, with whom Bryant won three rings in Los Angeles, called Bryant a loyal friend and a Renaissance man.
On the 500th anniversary of Leonardo's death, three new coffee-table books revisit the life and legacy of the original Renaissance man.
But on film, Swayze was truly a renaissance man, as evidenced from the diverse roles in which he was cast throughout his life.
Fingal is a farmer, butcher, knifemaker, and chef—the kind of rural Renaissance man that makes us city-dwellers feel like incompetent fools.
Few cultural critics have had as enduring an influence on the intersections of art, music, fashion, and pop culture as the Renaissance man.
Centuries before Wester Europe coined the term, "renaissance man," artist Su Shi moonlighted as a pharmacologist, gastronome, and statesman for the Song Dynasty.
Cleveland Indians pitcher Trevor Bauer is known for being something of a Renaissance man – from his drone hobby to his love of crowdsourcing memes.
Raised on a farm in North Carolina and now living in tropical Thailand, Steven Banks is a modern Renaissance man with a dozen identities.
"He will be remembered as a gentle man, generous and kind, an unprecedented visionary, a modern Pygmalion, a Renaissance man," a distributed obituary read.
At the top of the page is John Cena—a Renaissance man who speaks Mandarin, collaborates with Wiz Khalifa, and acts as America's conscience.
Colored lights illuminate her subjects, globs of bodily fluid produced by modern-day renaissance man Christopher Zeischegg, with whom West recently entered a relationship.
La Mama fixture Tony Torn plays a grotesquely aging version of the wannabe modern Renaissance man, clad in elaborate neoclassical costumes (bejeweled crowns, togas).
"American Masters" celebrates Black History Month with this new portrait of Sammy Davis Jr. — a Renaissance man and leading member of the Rat Pack.
Saturday Night Live announced Sunday morning that renaissance man Donald Glover will be hosting the show on May 5 with musical guest Childish Gambino, a.k.a.
It's up there with da Vinci's Vitruvian Man (né 1490) but is far less aesthetically pleasing than what everyone's favorite Renaissance Man had cooked up.
"One of the things I was thinking about when I named it Ethel's Club was this idea of a Renaissance man reclaiming culture," she said.
Mr. Tisci also seemed excited about a return to London and the challenge of tackling another major luxury brand in need of a Renaissance man.
A Renaissance man, he also composed chamber works, a ballet and choral music, and was fluent in seven languages and able to read a dozen.
If I have to make five in a day, which happens only once in a while, I want a medal for being a Renaissance man.
Known for his work directing cartoon shows like The Smurfs and sitcoms like Mad About You (which starred Helen), Hunt was a true Hollywood renaissance man.
"He will be remembered as a gentle man, generous and kind, an unprecedented visionary, a modern Pygmalion, a Renaissance man," she said in a Facebook post.
Mr. Highmore, who also ended up with several writing credits, was described by Mr. Cuse as a sort of Renaissance man whose skills include several languages.
As Tesla, Space-X, and Boring Company chief, Musk has changed what it means to be a tech magnate and is something of an insatiable renaissance man.
Somehow in between creating and starring in hit show Atlanta this year, renaissance man Donald Glover was able to release a critically acclaimed album Awaken, My Love!
Over the course of the last decade, Harry Styles has transformed himself from a boy band heartthrob into an international renaissance man with an eye for fashion.
Fabrice is an Internet entrepreneur, angel investor, student and lover of life, aspiring Renaissance man and co-founder of FJ Labs, a venture investment firm and startup studio.
We found out Chyna got wind of the course through an email sent to her team by Christian Emiliano, who refers to himself as Social Media Renaissance Man.
Photo: GettyApple cofounder Steve Jobs is remembered today as a genius renaissance man, but he was once just a dirtbag kid who was bad at filling out job applications.
Fabrice Grinda is an Internet entrepreneur, angel investor, student and lover of life, aspiring Renaissance man and co-founder of FJ Labs, a venture investment firm and startup studio.
Prince Philip is something of a Renaissance man – he's a naval officer, sportsman (he still drives a horse carriage!), adventurer, painter and carries the honor of Duke of Edinburgh.
Campbell is essentially a modern-day renaissance man—as well as a fan favorite, highlighted when he returned to the role of the infamous Ash in Starz's Ash vs.
Gronnemark, 42, is something of a sporting Renaissance man: He has competed for Denmark in track and field — generally as a sprinter — and been part of the national bobsled squad.
To shoot down the obvious, oft-made comparison, former superhero and current renaissance man John Cena wins 58 percent of his pay-per-view matches and 77 percent of everything.
Other films Marshall directed included: "Renaissance Man" (1994) with Danny DeVito; "The Preacher's Wife" (1996) with Denzel Washington and Whitney Houston; and "Riding in Cars with Boys" (2001) with Drew Barrymore.
While honing his music, which he often self-produces and records at home, Valee has turned odd hobbies into odd jobs, toeing the line between eccentric and modern-day Renaissance man.
Created by renaissance man Donald Glover, Atlanta gives such an intimate look at its characters that it's impossible not to get sucked into their lives in the biggest city in Georgia.
An eloquent if gruff Renaissance man, he has worked as a professional sculptor, once crafting a Minuteman for a Las Vegas hotel, and was a paratrooper before enrolling at Yale Law School.
Naturally, it also shows off the polymath abilities of Trudeau, a Renaissance man whose personal traits seem all the more appealing to many Americans given the dire state of the 2016 election.
And Mr. Bezos, who according to Bloomberg is the world's richest person with a roughly $453 billion fortune, is growing more comfortable in the spotlight, particularly as a modern-day Renaissance man.
And Mr. Bezos, who according to Bloomberg is the world's richest person with a roughly $453 billion fortune, is growing more comfortable in the spotlight, particularly as a modern-day Renaissance man.
Even though he has had a cool career in music and fashion -- winning 12 Grammy Awards and two nominations for Academy Awards -- this distorted renaissance man can also be quite the nerd.
There is the story of a gifted actor — a renaissance man, as he is described in the film — and his journey from bit player to fame, fortune and permanent pop-culture icon status.
With his refined, almost patrician image and the sensibilities of a Renaissance Man, the Arabic-speaking Barrack cuts a striking visage in the populist orbit that is ushering Trump to the White House.
Co-founder of the DIY rocket ship group Copenhagen Suborbitals, Madsen is a an eccentric renaissance man who helped build the UC3 Nautilus with a group of volunteers over the course of three years.
The sort of Renaissance man and public intellectual Berger represented is hard to come by these days, but The Seasons in Quincy — and interaction with Berger — is a bit of a spark of inspiration.
Shift Renaissance man Jamie Foxx pays auto aficionado Jay Leno a visit on Thursday's episode of CNBC's "Jay Leno's Garage " and gets a high-speed driving lesson from his own stunt-double, Jay Lynch.
I aim to be a Renaissance man and would like to say it comes from novels, nature, and the Met, but I learned about Richard through a freakin' TMZ video while at the gym.
The novelist, art critic, art historian, painter and poet John Berger, who turns 90 this year, is so much a Renaissance man that calling him one almost seems like damning him with faint praise.
Rotten Tomatoes score: 12%Summary: In the comedy "Renaissance Man," DeVito stars as Bill Rago, a new teacher who tries to connect with the soldiers in his literacy class who have been deemed unteachable.
"People agglomerate all these things together as if they all happen in a week," he tells me exasperatedly when I ask about the public perception of him as a sort of superhuman Renaissance man.
Renaissance man whose passions include music, fitness and a unique philosophy on living a maximized life, Van Vlack is a player in the martial arts and physical culture movement in New York City.
In "Renaissance Man" (217), Mark Wahlberg was tasked with doing a "rap version of Hamlet" in a "feel-good movie which is too mechanically put-together to make you feel anything" (another stinger from Empire).
Taking it all in, it seems the singular commonality is actually Burle Marx himself, whom Nahson describes as a Renaissance man, noting that in his spare time he cooked, sang baritone and cared deeply about ecology.
The 68-year-old Austrian oak remains a modern day renaissance man; he turns terrible movies into brilliant ones by himself being terrible, sort of how two odd numbers always add to make an even one.
Flash forward eight years — where chapters have been established in 14 countries, including China, South Korea, Venezuela, and the Netherlands—and the efforts of this Renaissance man can be seen in the extensive outreach of the program.
But Anna added that Chalamet makes her "job" easier: "His looks seem to fit in any painting from any time perfectly, and his outstanding acting, multilingualism, and musical skills make him a true Renaissance man," she said.
I've always admired the Renaissance Man—a person accomplished in many interests and hobbies—but I never had time during my work-a-day life back in Texas to indulge all the things I wanted to do.
"A Kentucky Renaissance man" Sanders first built an identity on fried chicken while running a service station with his mistress, who following his divorce would become his second wife — a point made in one of Sanders' autobiographies.
Even the actor and Renaissance man James Franco, who in 2014 opened a branch of his acting and film school, Studio4, in Fort Greene, couldn't work his magic: the studio announced it was closing on Oct. 1.
Today, Montreal's MC renaissance man is taking me to some of his favourite restaurants to discuss hip-hop, politics, and how food brings everything—and everyone—together, no matter how bleak things can get in the Middle East.
And my father always said - he was always a renaissance man - you have to know everything, you have to do everything in the house from gardening to electricity and then you have to build your brain as well.
After all, how on earth could a grown man who proudly claims to have eaten roughly two ham and cheese sandwiches every day for the last 26 years not be considered a renaissance man of the highest order?
" The modern renaissance man, who in addition to his Grown-ish acting gig is also a model, stylist and "creative entrepreneur," says the Evian campaign "kind of speaks to the life motto, of just being able to do everything.
Now, in a recent at-home interview with PEOPLE, Laura Bush reveals that her husband is even more of a Renaissance man than we knew and can be found not only in his art studio — but on a yoga mat.
During his frequent trips to London the renaissance man—Franklin, who helped write the American constitution, was a scientist and inventor as well—had been inspired by Englishmen's habit of making music by striking their wet fingers around glass rims.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Insect Artifice, an illustrated study of the intellectual and artistic merits of 16th-century "(post-) Renaissance Man" Joris Hoefnagel, by Marisa Anne Bass loves to play with layered meanings, starting with the title itself.
Few readers will be familiar with Mr. Phillips's name, but he was a Renaissance man: a violinist who played in the Pittsburgh Symphony for nearly 40 years and continued working with students, composing, sketching and carving wood sculptures into his 90s.
She also directed the films "Awakenings" with Robert De Niro and Robin Williams; "Renaissance Man" with Danny DeVito; "Riding in Cars with Boys" with Drew Barrymore; and "The Preacher's Wife," a remake of the 1947 film, starring Denzel Washington and Whitney Houston.
In an interview with Noisey, Moore (the noise-loving Renaissance man and famed Sonic Youth guitarist who at first blush seems like an unlikely Mayhem collaborator) detailed both his love for black metal and the curious circumstances behind his introduction to the project.
"Renaissance Man" (21981), starring Danny DeVito as an adman turned teacher of Army recruits, was savaged by critics and earned only about $21979 million, considerably less than it cost to make, in the United States (in contrast, "Big" earned almost $115 million).
The renaissance man was at the Sunset Room in Hollywood for entertainment promoter and entrepreneur Dave Brown's 50th birthday party, where Jamie was standing next to the man of the hour when his and Kanye's song "Gold Digger" came blaring through the speakers.
Philippe is a renaissance man: a lawyer by training, the former mayor the Normandy port city of Le Havre, a former member of parliament, author of two novels of political fiction, and—the reason we're talking about him here—a recreational boxer.
He fancies himself a renaissance man — ornithologist and wrestling coach and philatelist and explorer and philanthropist — and winds up essentially buying 1984 wrestling gold medalist Mark Schultz (Channing Tatum) by funding Schultz to train for the 1988 World Championships and Olympic gold at his estate.
This week, on the occasion of the semiannual Pitti Uomo men's wear fair, an installation of photography by Karl Lagerfeld, fashion's own Renaissance man, joined the work of the past masters, hanging or posted among them, beside them and, in some cases, over them.
A latter-day Renaissance man, he was also a composer of art songs whose music was performed by some of the most renowned singers of the postwar years, and a photographer whose work is in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Mr. Sanna might not have been a Renaissance man by da Vinci standards (though his creative juices were undoubtedly stimulated by observing his father sculpt Santa Claus angels from ice cream when he ran a dairy company), but he was, by all accounts, inventive.
Price: $15 on Amazon Simon & Schuster / 624 pages / October 2017 Isaacson is probably best known today for his 2011 biography of Steve Jobs, but he has followed up that magnum opus with another dive into another entrepreneur, this time quintessential Renaissance man Leonardo Da Vinci.
When: October 6, 2017–June 23, 2018 Where: Center for Italian Modern Art (421 Broome Street, 4th floor, Soho, Manhattan) Alberto Savinio is not a familiar name outside of Italy, but at home he enjoys the reputation of a Renaissance man and painter of surrealist scenes.
What Really Happened: Not content with being in the highest-grossing movie of all time, Jeremy Renner has been trying to be a renaissance man lately, launching a music career, his own Jeremy Renner–branded Amazon store, and, of course, his very own Jeremy Renner app.
The first full biography since Ali's death last year tells the story of his epic life; "France Is a Feast" shows off Paul Child's accomplished photos of Julia Child and postwar Paris; and Walter Isaacson's latest best seller considers the awe-inspiring work of the Renaissance man.
Richard Tousey, our neighbor across the street and down the block, was quite a Renaissance man: He was the solar astronomer primarily responsible for capturing the first photographs of the solar UV spectrum down to about 210 nanometers in 1946 using a captured V-2 rocket as launch vehicle.
Leonardo was a true Renaissance man, fascinated with everything — the mechanics of flight, architecture, engineering, botany, artillery and human anatomy — but one of his favorite private pastimes was to draw faces, either as scribbles in the margins of his notebooks or as fully conceived sketches later used for paintings.
Still, I couldn't get the episode to fit with the gentle person who could charm any group of guests at a dinner table, someone so erudite and original that friends of mine (and all the friends I introduced William to were impressed) had called him a Renaissance man.
The Bamako-based renaissance man, coming from a long musical tradition (his father was master of the traditional harp, the n'dan) but with both feet firmly planted in the contemporary Mali music scene, has always jumped from Afro-pop to dub to dance music like each genre was his birthright.
While many woman directors were and continue to be shut out of work regardless of whether they've made a hit or not, Marshall went on to make Awakenings (which was nominated for an Academy Award), A League of Their Own, Renaissance Man, The Preacher's Wife, and Riding in Cars with Boys.
Noah Raizman, 29, Orthopedic surgical residentDating history: A condensed "When Harry Met Sally" with multiple women and a jet-setting James Bond type Best features: I'm a Renaissance man: I've been an editor, teacher, writer and chef; I play guitar and sing; I can talk literature, politics, science and pop culture.
But that carefully cultivated image of a caring, progressive Renaissance man came crashing down on Monday night after the publication of an expose by The New Yorker, detailing allegations of a sordid and stomach-turning double life, including Mr. Schneiderman's physical and psychological abuse of four women with whom he had been romantically involved.
On June 15 in Florence, Italy, this 21st-century Renaissance man will add political provocation to his list of exploits when, as a featured guest artist at the twice-yearly men's wear fair Pitti Uomo, he will present a fashion installation created with the American artist Jenny Holzer and built around the international refugee crisis.
Musician Tinie Tempah is a true Londoner, a record-breaking renaissance man whose blend of grime (an urban underground type of music) and pop music has made him the most successful British rap artist in U.K. chart history and the first to reach platinum sales status with his U.S. debut single "Written in the Stars" in 2010.
Away from the rink, Krueger worked with the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on New Models of Leadership where he came into contact with Katharina Liebherr, the Swiss owner of Southampton FC. Liebherr was impressed enough by Krueger's resume and a 'renaissance man' view of sport that she approached the Canadian, who was looking for a job and a new challenge.
And one of them is, in its own way, extraordinary: They are trying to determine if the heist was engineered by a retired New York City schoolteacher — something of a renaissance man — who donned women's clothing and took his son along as his accomplice, and then hung the masterwork in the bedroom of his own rural New Mexico home, where it remained.
If you're searching for a modern-day Renaissance man, look no further than Freddie Prinze Jr. The '90s heartthrob may not be in the public eye much these days, but during his time away from the limelight, he's gone to culinary school, been a behind-the-scenes player at the WWE, and, oh yeah, he's a dad now to Charlotte, 7, and Rocky, 4.
You've done so many ... You're sort of a renaissance man of Silicon Valley at this point, and someone who's a mentor, and I don't want to call you Bill Campbell, who was sort of the mentor to people, but you're sort of moving into a role like that in Silicon Valley: Someone people turn to, sensible and reasonable, good advice, high ethics, that kind of stuff.
Now, if you read THUMP you'll know that we're always up for a good old fashioned bit of sadlad dancefloor action, so we're thanking the stars above right now because renaissance man Jimmy Edgar has decided to dunk his head down in the RIVR to turn "Friend Lover" into the kind of star-spangled tearjerker that you'll be desperate to hear next time you spot someone you used to fancy in sixth-form down the club.
Captain Weems was another Renaissance man: All-American center for the Navy Midshipmen (Class of 19803), US Olympic wrestling team in 21980, 21986 South Atlantic amateur light-heavyweight wrestling champion (at the age of 22012), proficient skin-diver who was a member of the 1959 expedition to explore the sunken Port Royal in Jamaica (see Exploring The Drowned City Of Port Royal, National Geographic Magazine, V. 117, No.2, 1960), and he invented many navigational aids with uses that persist to this day.

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