Iconology, Neoplatonism, and the Arts in the Renaissance (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Hub, Berthold; Kodera, Sergius

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000179118
• Artikelnr.: 59951280

Autorenporträt

Berthold Hub is Lecturer at the University of Vienna and visiting professor at the Beuth Hochschule für Technik Berlin. Sergius Kodera is Senior Researcher at the New Design University St. Pölten and external reader in Philosophy at the University of Vienna.

Inhaltsangabe

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)