Iconology, Neoplatonism, and the Arts in the Renaissance
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Iconology, Neoplatonism, and the Arts in the Renaissance

  1. 234 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Iconology, Neoplatonism, and the Arts in the Renaissance

About this book

The mid-twentieth century saw a change in paradigms of art history: iconology. The main claim of this novel trend in art history was that renowned Renaissance artists (such as Botticelli, Leonardo, or Michelangelo) created imaginative syntheses between their art and contemporary cosmology, philosophy, theology, and magic.

The Neoplatonism in the books by Marsilio Ficino and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola became widely acknowledged for its lasting influence on art. It thus became common knowledge that Renaissance artists were not exclusively concerned with problems intrinsic to their work but that their artifacts encompassed a much larger intellectual and cultural horizon. This volume brings together historians concerned with the history of their own discipline – and also those whose research is on the art and culture of the Italian Renaissance itself – with historians from a wide variety of specialist fields, in order to engage with the contested field of iconology.

The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, Renaissance history, Renaissance studies, historiography, philosophy, theology, gender studies, and literature.

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Yes, you can access Iconology, Neoplatonism, and the Arts in the Renaissance by Berthold Hub, Sergius Kodera, Berthold Hub,Sergius Kodera in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Art & History of Art. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Year
2020
eBook ISBN
9781000179118
Edition
1
Topic
Art
Subtopic
History of Art

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Table of Contents
  7. List of Figures
  8. List of Contributors
  9. Introduction
  10. 1. Erwin Panofsky’s Idea (1924)*
  11. 2. “My Friend Ficino”. Art History and Neoplatonism: From Intellectual to Material Beauty
  12. 3. Seeing and the Unseen: Marsilio Ficino and the Visual Arts
  13. 4. Negotiating Neoplatonic Image Theory: The Production of Mental Images in Marsilio Ficino and Giovan Battista della Porta’s Magic Lamps
  14. 5. In Quest of Beauty: Gender Trouble in the Orlando Furioso
  15. 6. Neoplatonism and Biography: Michelangelo’s Ganymede before and after Tommaso de’ Cavalieri
  16. 7. Botticelli’s Primavera and Contemporary Commentaries
  17. 8. “HIC EST HOMO PLATONIS”: Two Embodiments of Platonic Concepts of Man in Renaissance Art
  18. 9. Iconology as a Spiritual Exercise: The compositio loci in Ignatius of Loyola1
  19. 10. Neither Drunk nor Sober: Dionysiac Inspiration and Renaissance Artistic Practices
  20. Appendix: Twilight of the Gods for Neoplatonism (1986/1992)
  21. Index