We are re-designing The Renaisseur™ business to become an employee-owned healthy choices company using innovative and creative capabilities to provide unique products and develop awareness of healthy choices. Originally, the Renaisseur™ was based on the concept of a polymath as described below.
Renaisseur™ : A modern day polymath or renaissance person who is in pursuit of developing their abilities in all areas of knowledge as well as in physical development, social accomplishments, language, and the arts.
Renaisseur™ : A modern day polymath or renaissance person who is in pursuit of developing their abilities in all areas of knowledge as well as in physical development, social accomplishments, language, and the arts.
A polymath (Greek: πολυμαθής, polymathēs, "having learned much"), is a person whose expertise spans a significant number of different subject areas;
such a person is known to draw on complex bodies of knowledge to solve specific problems. The term is often applied to great thinkers of the Renaissance and Golden Age of Islam, who excelled at multiple fields of the arts and science, such as Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Galileo Galilei, Nicolaus Copernicus, Francis Bacon and Michael Servetus. These thinkers embodied a notion that emerged in Renaissance Italy and that was expressed by one of its most accomplished representatives, Leon Battista Alberti (1404–1472), that "a man can do all things if he will."The concept embodied a basic tenet of Renaissance humanism, that humans are empowered and limitless in their capacity for development, and it led to the notion that people should embrace all knowledge and develop their capacities as fully as possible. The term applies to the gifted people of the Renaissance who sought to develop their abilities in all areas of knowledge as well as in physical development, social accomplishments, and the arts, in contrast to the vast majority of people of that age who were not well educated. This term entered the lexicon during the twentieth century and has been applied to great thinkers living before and after the Renaissance. Terms such as polyhistor and universal genius are sometimes employed as synonyms to polymath. |