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Author: Liana Cheney
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Published: 2002
Total Pages: 354
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of essays explores the scope of the important relationships between the philosophical system of Neoplatonism and the arts in Italy.
Author: Berthold Hub
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-09-23
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 1000179117
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Author: Aphrodite Alexandrakis
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 2002-01-01
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780791452790
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShows how the aesthetic views of Plotinus and later Neoplatonists have played a role in the history of Western art.
Author: James Wilberding
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Published: 2012-04-05
Total Pages: 276
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume dispels the idea that Platonism was an otherworldly enterprise which neglected the study of the natural world. Leading scholars examine how the Platonists of late antiquity sought to understand and explain natural phenomena: their essays offer a new understanding of the metaphysics of Platonism, and its place in the history of science.
Author: Liana Cheney
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 310
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKNeoplatonic Aesthetics: Music, Literature, and the Visual Arts explores the idea of a Neoplatonic aesthetic, a philosophy of the arts based on the writings of Plato and the Neoplatonists - principally Plotinus, Proclus, Pseudo-Dionysius, Nicolas Cusanus, and Marsilio Ficino - and more contemporary philosophers - Stephen MacKenna, Iris Murdoch, Denman Ross, Jacques Derrida, and Hans Georg Gadamer. This book examines the artistic production of figures such as Gioseffe Zarlino, Fra Angelico, Leon Battista Alberti, Sandro Botticelli, Michelangelo, and Giorgio Vasari, and it formulates theoretical approaches to contemporary production based in the Neoplatonic philosophies.
Author: Nesca A. Robb
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-04-13
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 1000362884
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in 1935, the aim of this title is first to give a clear outline of Florentine Neoplatonism, and then to consider its influence on art and literature during a period that extends roughly from the age of Lorenzo de’ Medici to the middle of the sixteenth century and the beginnings of the Counter-Reformation. No rigid divisions of time have been fixed, but with few exceptions the works discussed may be placed between these bounds. Even within these limits it would require a work of greater dimensions that the present to exhaust so large a subject in all its bearings. The leaven of Neoplatonism had penetrated the thought of the age in many directions; this study is confined to such of its manifestations as were, in a somewhat narrow sense, artistic and literary and to the use and abuse of philosophical ideas for aesthetic purposes.
Author: Ilsetraut Hadot
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2015-01-08
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9004281592
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAthenian and Alexandrian Neoplatonism and the Harmonization of Aristotle and Plato by I. Hadot deals with the Neoplatonist tendency to harmonize the philosophies of Plato and Aristotle. It shows that this harmonizing tendency, born in Middle Platonism, prevailed in Neoplatonism from Porphyry and Iamblichus, where it persisted until the end of this philosophy. Hadot aims to illustrate that it is not the different schools themselves, for instance those of Athens and Alexandria, that differ from one another by the intensity of the will to harmonization, but groups of philosophers within these schools.
Author: R. Baine Harris
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 2002-01-01
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780791452776
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLeading scholars relate Neoplatonism to contemporary social theory, aesthetics, and spirituality.
Author: Dominic J. O'Meara
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1981-06-30
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 1438415117
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this volume, the relationships between two of the most vital currents in Western thought are examined by a group of nineteen internationally known specialists in a variety of disciplines—classics, patristics, philosophy, theology, history of ideas, and literature. The contributing scholars discuss Neoplatonic theories about God, creation, man, and salvation, in relation to the ways in which they were adopted, adapted, or rejected by major Christian thinkers of five periods: Patristic, Later Greek and Byzantine, Medieval, Renaissance, and Modern. Contributors include G.-H. Allard, A. Hilary Armstrong, Elizabeth Bieman, Linos Benakis, Henry Blumenthal, Mary T. Clark, Norris Clarke, John Dillon, Cornelio Fabro, John N. Findlay, Maurice de Gandillac, Edward P. Mahoney, Bernard McGinn, Dominic J. O'Meara, John J. O'Meara, Jean Pépin, Mary Carman Rose, Henri-Dominique Saffrey, Charles B. Schmitt, and Gérard Verbeke.
Author: Paulos Gregorios
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 2002-01-01
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780791452745
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores connections between Neoplatonism and Indian philosophy.
