2025 Workshop Talk | | Art & Music, History
Summary
Leonardo’s ‘Vitruvian Man’ (ca. 1490) is among the most recognizable images in all of human history. It is not just a piece of Renaissance art; it has also become a sort of ultimate meme. This little drawing is also a marvelous metaphor for classical Christian learning, as it is built upon the Trivium, the Quadrivium, and the Nature of Man while pointing to the Being of a God of beauty, order, and design.
Speaker
Grant Horner (PhD) is a senior rank Full Professor of Humanities at The Master’s University, just north of Los Angeles, where he specializes in the Renaissance Reformation Historical Theology, Art History, and Classics. He was educated at Duke, UNC Chapel Hill, the University of Alabama, and Claremont Graduate University. He has been teaching at the university level for 30 years and has published numerous articles and books on Renaissance literature; 16th and 17th century theology; the Puritan John Milton; Classical learning; Bram Stoker’s Dracula; and film and theology. He is a National Council Alcuin Fellow in the Society for Classical Learning, and is Founder and Director of two academic programs at Master’s: The TMU in Italy summer abroad program based in Florence, and the BA program in Classical Liberal Arts. He lives in northern Tuscany every summer with his wife and a group of very eager students, in a villa built in 1409. He and his wife have three children and eight grandchildren.
Additional Materials
The Association of Classical & Christian Schools presents Repairing the Ruins, the ACCS annual conference, copyright ACCS. You may make additional copies of this recording for use by your school but please do not sell any copies of the recording, or post it on the internet.
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