The New-Enlightenment Foundation was created in 1990, inspired by the sculptor Noetico, originator of New-Enlightenment and Enlightened Art.
The object of the Foundation is to pursue the emancipation of Humanity initiated by the French philosophers and men of letters of the 18th century, extending their ideas beyond the purely literary and philosophical into figurative arts. To this purpose, the Foundation inaugurated in 1994 an international literary en artistic Prize, dedicated to the memory of
Denis Diderot.





The aims of this Prize are to encourage and promulgate the work pioneered by Free Thinkers against religious and theological dogma and to bear witness to the evolutionary supremacy of Human Reason, whereby mankind is seen to be the sole champion of its own Life and identity