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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 philosophical tradition and inspired fresh insights.
This approach, combined with little known historical material, offers a new understanding of whether, how and why Ficino’s Platonic conceptions of the imagination may have been received in the art of the Italian Renaissance. The discussion explores Ficino’s possible influence on the work of Botticelli and Michelangelo, and examines the appropriation of Ficino’s ideas by early modern art theorists.
Price: $219.00
Pages: 370
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Aries Book Series
Publication Date:
09 December 2021
ISBN: 9789004459670
Format: Hardcover
"[This book] is beautifully designed and stunningly illustrated with 103 high-quality color images. Its merit resides in bringing a revered topic of Renaissance culture back to the forefront of scholarship and suggesting new possible ways to interpret it, alongside the reinterpretation of famous works."
-Francesca Fiorani, University of Virginia, USA, in Renaissance Quarterly 78.3
-Francesca Fiorani, University of Virginia, USA, in Renaissance Quarterly 78.3
Marieke J.E. van den Doel is Assistant Professor of History of Humanism at the University of Humanistic Studies in Utrecht. Previously, she was Director of Studies in Art History at the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR) and Curator of Exhibitions at Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam.