“It became pretty quickly to me that this guy was a renaissance man," Idelson ... “It was pretty impressive." Suzuki, now 51, was so overwhelmed and in awe of the museum that he returned ...

Such critical misapprehensions (many of which linger on even now; the lazily reductivist ... one of modern culture’s last true Renaissance men — a man who dedicated himself to self-fashioning ...

What is a ‘Renaissance man’, and why has such an archetype persisted in Western culture six centuries on from its namesake? Many of the artists, scientists, philosophers, and courtiers of the ...