Iconology, Neoplatonism, and the Arts in the Renaissance

ISBN-13: 9780367895297 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 246 str.

Berthold Hub; Sergius Kodera

Opis

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 renown Renaissance artists (such as Botticelli, Leonardo or Michelangelo) created imaginative syntheses between their art and contemporary cosmology, philosophy, theology and magic.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Erwin Panofsky’s Idea (1924)  2. "My Friend Ficino". Art History and Neoplatonism: From Intellectual Beauty to Material Beauty  3. Seeing and the Unseen: Marsilio Ficino and the Visual Arts  4. Negotiating Neoplatonic Image Theory: The Production of Mental Images in Marsilio Ficino and Giovan Battista della Porta’s Magic Lamps  5. In Quest of Beauty: Gender Trouble in the Orlando Furioso  6. Neoplatonism and Biography: Michelangelo's Ganymede before and after Tommaso do' Cavalieri  7. Botticelli’s Primavera and Contemporary Commentaries  8. "HIC EST HOMO PLATONIS": Two Embodiments of Platonic Concepts of Man in Renaissance Art  9. Iconology as a Spiritual Exercise: The compositio loci in Ignatius of Loyola  10. Neither Drunk nor Sober: Dionysiac Inspiration and Renaissance Artistic Practices  Appendix: Twilight of the Gods for Neoplatonism (1986/1992)