Iconology, Neoplatonism, and the Arts in the Renaissance

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.

List of contents

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)

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Berthold Kodera Hub
• Assisted by: Berthold Hub (Editor), Sergius Kodera (Editor), Kodera Sergius (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9780367895297
• ISBN: 978-0-367-89529-7
• No. of pages: 246
• Series: Routledge Research in Art History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; ART / History / General, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, HISTORY / Historiography, History of Art, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Renaissance art, Renaissance style, Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600, c 1400 to c 1499 (period of the Italian Renaissance), Medieval Western philosophy, ART / History / European / Renaissance