The New Year is my personal favorite holiday and the Renaissance is my favorite period of our history so here is my very special New Year's Greeting full of my Best Wishes and a Suggestion to Revisit our World with the eyes of the independent thinkers, artists, sculptors, and humanists that age to begin a Renaissance of Ideas of our own in 2021! There are many lessons and analogies we can draw from during our pandemic from the Renaissance Age in which ideas, art, science, philosophy and literature all flourished beginning with Giovanni Bocaccio's "Decameron" collection of 100 short stories from 10 people escaping the plague of their time, among others.  

Though the Renaissance ended centuries ago, it produced some marvels of the world which have since not been reproduced. For example, there is only one place in this world I have been to where I truly felt like I was a part of a live painting - at the Florence Dome (Cupola) of Brunelleschi. It is a perfect example of life intertwined with art. We have enjoyed tremendous innovative technologies in modern times and many golden ages of Greece, Holland, 19th Century France, or 1960's United States of America, but to this day, the Renaissance has left its distinct legacy that has been unsurpassed since in many regards as there are very few masterpieces of architecture, or few cities constructed since the Renaissance like Florence, Venice, or Mantova. There are few humanists such as Michelle de Montaigne from the Renaissance or Erasmus from Holland, or sculptors and painters of masterpieces such as the Sistine Chapel like Michelangelo, writers like Bocaccio, Petrarca, and independent thinkers like Leonardo da Vinci or Marsilio Ficino.  In this video I highlight some of the root causes to explain why the Renaissance Age has withstood time and distinguished itself from other periods of history and the role of key figures of the period such as Lorenzo De Medici, the owner of the Medici Bank and financial mogul who did not just invest in a lot of talent at once, but intentionally inspired a vision of creating art, philosophy, and other works of art to build communities and cities that placed extraordinary value on:  1) TRUTH - searching for it regardless of religious convictions and theological background  2) BEAUTY - creating it for not just the private upper classes but making it accessible and approachable for the public  3) WISDOM - promoting the positive emotional, social, and intellectual drivers of the human condition and behavior such as compassion and empathy through architecture, philosophy, and fine arts.  4) PEACE -  prioritizing practical values of community and stability, intellect, reason, short span of life, the role of legacy, and serenity.

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