Ficino and fantasy : : imagination in Renaissance art and theory from Botticelli to Michelangelo /

Ficino and fantasy : : imagination in Renaissance art and theory from Botticelli to Michelangelo / / by Marieke J.E. van den Doel.

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Did the Florentine philosopher Marsilio Ficino (1433-99) influence the art of his time? Art historians have been fiercely debating this question for decades. This book starts with Ficino's views on the imagination as a faculty of the soul, and shows how these ideas were part of a long philosoph...

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Superior document:Aries book series ; Volume 29
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Doel, Marieke van den,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Aries book series ; Volume 29.
Physical Description:1 online resource (390 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Half Title
  • Series Information
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Illustrations
  • Abbreviations
  • Chapter 1 Art and Humanism in the Renaissance
  • 1 Ficino and the Visual Arts
  • 2 Historical Context
  • 3 Conclusion
  • Part 1 Oculus Imaginationis
  • Chapter 2 'Such stuff as dreams are made on': A Brief History of the Imagination
  • 1 Classical Theories
  • 2 Aristotle, Aristotelianism and the Stoics
  • 3 Galen of Pergamon and Galenism
  • 4 Plato and the Platonist Tradition
  • 5 Hermetism
  • 6 Medieval Theories: Arab Thinkers
  • 7 Medieval Theories: The Latin West
  • 8 Conclusion
  • Chapter 3 Phantasia through Ficino's Lense: Focus, Refraction and Diffusion
  • 1 De Divino furore and Related Texts
  • 2 De amore
  • 3 Theologia Platonica, Book xiii
  • 4 Melancholy and Furor: De vita sana (1480)
  • 5 Ficino's Commentary on Priscian of Lydia
  • 6 De vita ii and iii (1489)
  • 7 Commentary on Plato's Dialogue Parmenides (1492-1494)
  • 8 Imitation, Opposition and Reception
  • 9 Conclusion
  • Part 2 Visus
  • Chapter 4 Botticelli's Primavera Interpreted
  • 1 Ficino and Art from the Renaissance Onward
  • 2 Botticelli's Primavera and The Birth of Venus
  • 3 Interpretations of the Primavera
  • 4 Warburg
  • 5 Gombrich
  • 6 Wind
  • 7 Dempsey
  • 8 Snow-Smith
  • 9 Ames-Lewis
  • 10 The Six Powers of the Soul
  • 11 Excursus: Ficino and Images
  • 12 Conclusion
  • Chapter 5 Ficino's Fantasy and Michelangelo's Dream
  • 1 Melancholic Genius and Its Vices
  • 2 Michelangelo, the Melancholic
  • 3 Michelangelo and Tommaso dei Cavalieri
  • 4 Michelangelo's Platonism
  • 5 Il sogno or The Dream
  • 6 Ganymede, Tityus and Phaeton
  • 7 A Children's Bacchanal
  • 8 Archers
  • 9 Conclusion
  • Chapter 6 Alberti, Bartoli, Comanini: Imagination in Early-Modern Art Theory
  • 1 Art Theory and Its Emancipation of Painting.
  • 2 Routes for the Transfer of Ficino's Ideas
  • 3 References to Ficino's Portraits in Art Theory
  • 4 References to Ficino's Ideas in Art Theory
  • 5 'Thus wrote Trismegistus to Asclepius': References to Hermes Trismegistus
  • 6 Plato's Chariot: The Artistic Risks and Promises of the Imagination
  • 7 Fantasie, the Bizarre and Grotesque
  • 8 Furor as Part of the Artistic Process
  • 9 Melancholy as a Psychosomatic Side-Effect of the Artistic Process
  • 10 Conclusion
  • Chapter 7 Ficino and the Imagination: Conclusion and Summary
  • Bibliography
  • Sources and Editions
  • Studies
  • Index.

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