Ficino and Fantasy: Imagination in Renaissance Art and Theory from Botticelli to Michelangelo (completed)
- Start: 1 October 2019
- End: 16 December 2021
- Status: completed
Description
This starting point, as well as new historical material, leads to renewed insights into whether, how and why Ficino's Platonic conceptions of the imagination may have been received in the art of the Italian Renaissance. Especially, Ficino's possible influence on the work of Botticelli and Michelangelo is discussed, as well as the appropriation of Ficino’s ideas by early modern art theorists.
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Partners / Financing
The translation of this book project was financed by:- Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut te Rome
- Stichting Leerstoel Geschiedenis van de Hermetische filosofie
- Elly Cassee Stichting
Resultaten
Monografie: Ficino and Fantasy (uitgeverij Brill)Contact
Dr. Marieke van den Doel, M.vandenDoel@UvH.nl.Did the Florentine humanist and philosopher Marsilio Ficino influence the art of his time? This book by Marieke van den Doel departs from Ficino’s views on the imagination as a faculty of the soul.