Neoplatonism of the Italian Renaissance
Neoplatonism of the Italian Renaissance

Author: Nesca A. Robb

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-04-13

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 1000362884

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Originally 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.

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

Author: Berthold Hub

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-09-23

Total Pages: 419

ISBN-13: 1000179117

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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.

Platonism and the English Imagination
Platonism and the English Imagination

Author: Anna Baldwin

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2005-11-03

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 9780521021685

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This is the first compendious study of the influence of Plato on the English literary tradition, showing how English writers used Platonic ideas and images within their own imaginative work. Established experts and new writers have worked together to produce individual essays on more than thirty English authors, including Shakespeare, Milton, Blake, Wordsworth, T. S. Eliot, Auden and Iris Murdoch; and the book is divided chronologically, showing how every age has reconstructed Platonism to suit its own understanding of the world.

Plotinus' Legacy
Plotinus' Legacy

Author: Stephen Gersh

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-04-25

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 1108415288

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Using a series of case-studies from across European philosophical traditions, this book traces the influence of Neoplatonism over the centuries.

Ficino and Fantasy
Ficino and Fantasy

Author: Marieke J.E. van den Doel

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-12-13

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 9004459685

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Did the Florentine philosopher Marsilio Ficino (1433-99) influence the art of his time? This book starts with an exploration of Ficino’s views on the imagination and discusses whether, how and why these ideas may have been received in Italian Renaissance works of art.

Neoplatonism and the Arts
Neoplatonism and the Arts

Author: Liana Cheney

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13:

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This collection of essays explores the scope of the important relationships between the philosophical system of Neoplatonism and the arts in Italy.

Platonic Theology
Platonic Theology

Author: Marsilio Ficino

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 9780674017191

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Platonic Theology is the visionary and philosophical masterpiece of Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. This work, translated into English for the first time, is a key to understanding the art, thought, culture, and spirituality of the Renaissance.

Platonic Love from Antiquity to the Renaissance
Platonic Love from Antiquity to the Renaissance

Author: Carl Séan O'Brien

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-09-01

Total Pages: 589

ISBN-13: 1108530095

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Platonic love is a concept that has profoundly shaped Western literature, philosophy and intellectual history for centuries. First developed in the Symposium and the Phaedrus, it was taken up by subsequent thinkers in antiquity, entered the theological debates of the Middle Ages, and played a key role in the reception of Neoplatonism and the etiquette of romantic relationships during the Italian Renaissance. In this wide-ranging reference work, a leading team of international specialists examines the Platonic distinction between higher and lower forms of eros, the role of the higher form in the ascent of the soul and the concept of Beauty. They also treat the possibilities for friendship and interpersonal love in a Platonic framework, as well as the relationship between love, rhetoric and wisdom. Subsequent developments are explored in Plutarch, Plotinus, Augustine, Pseudo-Dionysius, Eriugena, Aquinas, Ficino, della Mirandola, Castiglione and the contra amorem tradition.