Christiane L Joost-Gaugier

Pythagoras and Renaissance Europe

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Produktbeschreibung

In this book, Christiane Joost-Gaugier offers the first systematic study of Pythagoras and his influence in the late medieval and early modern eras.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 862g
• ISBN-13: 9780521517959
• ISBN-10: 0521517958
• Artikelnr.: 25618090

Autorenporträt

Christiane L. Joost-Gaugier is an internationally known and distinguished scholar. A three-times graduate of Harvard, she has published extensively in research journals, conference proceedings, and international catalogues on subjects ranging from classical literature to medieval architecture to Renaissance art and intellectual history. A recipient of grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Philosophical Society, and the National Endowment for the Humanities among others, she is the author of Jacopo Bellini: Selected Drawings, Raphael's Stanza della Segnatura: Meaning and Invention, and Measuring Heaven: Pythagoras and His Influence on Thought and Art in Antiquity and the Middle Ages.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Pythagoras, Man for the Renaissance: 1. Prologue: the diffusion of
knowledge about Pythagoras in the Renaissance; 2. The emergence of 'Saint'
Pythagoras in the early Renaissance; 3. The apotheosis of Pythagoras in the
sixteenth century; Part II. The Many Faces of Renaissance Pythagoreanism:
4. The Pythagorean tradition in the early fifteenth century; 5. The
strengthening and deepening of Pythgoreanism in the later fifteenth
century; 6. The maturation and vicissitudes of Pythagoreanism in the
sixteenth century; Part III. Pythagoreanism in Architecture and Art: 7.
Renaissance images of Pythagoras; 8. The search for harmony in architecture
and art of the fifteenth century; 9. Finding harmony: form and meaning in
architecture and art of the sixteenth century; 10. Conclusions: the prince
of Italian philosophy and the birth of harmony as an aesthetic notion.