When the Gothic world finally exhaled, it did so in sunlight. The Early Renaissance learned to measure the world in the splendor of light. In newfound cities, artisans turned their gaze not away from heaven, but toward the divinity within the human form. This was a rebirth not only of art and learning, but of self-expression. Merchants, tailors, and artists all sought harmony between flesh and form, between soul and surface. In this episode of Threads Through Time, George Curry explores how light, line, and fabric shaped the first modern vision of beauty and the return to the human experience.