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Ficino and Fantasy - Imagination in Renaissance Art and Theory from Botticelli to Michelangelo (Hardcover)

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.
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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.

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Imprint

Brill

Country of origin

Netherlands

Series

Aries Book Series, 29

Release date

December 2021

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Expected to ship within 18 - 22 working days

First published

2022

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Dimensions

235 x 155mm (L x W)

Format

Hardcover

Pages

370

ISBN-13

978-90-04-45967-0

Barcode

9789004459670

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LSN

90-04-45967-7

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