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Ficino and fantasy : imagination in Renaissance art and theory from Botticelli to Michelangelo
- Title
- Ficino and fantasy : imagination in Renaissance art and theory from Botticelli to Michelangelo / by Marieke J. E. van den Doel.
- Author
- Doel, Marieke van den
- Publication
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]
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- Description
- xx, 368 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 25 cm.
- Summary
- "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\u0027s views on the imagination as a faculty of the soul, and shows how these ideas were part of a long philosophical tradition and inspired fresh insights. This approach, combined with little known historical material, offers a new understanding of whether, how and why Ficino\u0027s Platonic conceptions of the imagination may have been received in the art of the Italian Renaissance. The discussion explores Ficino\u0027s possible influence on the work of Botticelli and Michelangelo, and examines the appropriation of Ficino\u0027s ideas by early modern art theorists"--
- Series Statement
- Aries book series ; volume 29
- Uniform Title
- Aries book series ; v. 29.
- Alternative Title
- Imagination in Renaissance art and theory from Botticelli to Michelangelo
- Subject
- Note
- Outgrowth of the author\u0027s thesis (doctoral)--Universiteit van Amsterdam, 2008, under the title: Ficino en het voorstellingsvermogen : phantasia en imaginatio in kunst en theorie van de Renaissance.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Art and humanism in the Renaissance -- \u0027Such stuff as dreams are made on\u0027 : a brief history of the imagination -- Phantasia through Ficino\u0027s lense : focus, refraction and diffusion -- Botticelli\u0027s Primavera interpreted -- Ficino\u0027s fantasy and Michelangelo\u0027s Dream -- Alberti, Bartoli, Comanini : imagination in early-modern art theory -- Ficino and the imagination : conclusion and summary.
- ISBN
- 9789004459670
- 9004459677
- 9789004459687 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2021008251
- OCLC
- on1237350689
- 1237350689
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries