Answer:
Thomas Jefferson seems to fulfill all the necessary attributes of the Renaissance practice and its ideals. Both Jefferson and many people of the Renaissance era downplayed the previous era’s importance, the highly Christian Gothic period. Many people in the Renaissance period considered the Gothic period sort of barbaric and primitive. They longed for the centuries of ancient Rome and Greece. Ancient Rome and Greece were their ideal civilizations. So too with Jefferson. Jefferson favored the Neo-Classic way of building and designing buildings.
Step-by-step explanation:
Jefferson was one of only perhaps four American presidents to be a true intellectual.
He had wide-ranging knowledge of science, history, literature, what today is called political science, art and architecture, and the classics.
This was in an era when it was possible to know all of Western knowledge—if one were as formidable as Thomas Jefferson.
He had the most extensive personal library in the country. After the British burned the Library of Congress, Jefferson sold his library to the LOC.
Jefferson also spent time abroad as a diplomat, especially to France. This widened his exposure even further.
All this made a Renaissance Man.