Neoplatonism and the arts / edited by Liana de Girolami Cheney and John Hendrix.

Title & Author:

Neoplatonism and the arts / edited by Liana de Girolami Cheney and John Hendrix.

Publication:

Description:

xvi, 273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

Studies in art history ; v. 5

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Divinized and de-devinized conceptions of the world and of cosmos ; Plethon's conception of cosmos and its impact on Western cosmological theories / Leonidas C. Bargeliotes -- Ficino's preincarnational scenarios / Carol V. Kaske -- Reading Platonic and Neoplatonic notions of mimesis with and against Martin Heidegger / Constantinos V. Proimos -- The perfection of the circle: Florentine Tondi and Neoplatonism / Roberta J.M. Olson -- Neoplatonism, Augustinianism and Michelangelo's masculine women / Constanza Barbieri -- Proclus' foundations of Neoplatonic aesthetics and El Greco's "Annunciation" / Cristos Terezis and Kalomoira Polychronopoulou -- Francesco Borromini and Athanasius Kircher / John Hendrix.
The myth of Hercules as a symbol / Valery Rees -- Botticelli's "Camilla/Minerva and the Centaur": a Neoplatonic view of antiquity / Liana De Girolami Cheney -- Dante's Orpheus / Umberto Taccheri -- Giorgio Vasari's "Scrittorio of Calliope": a Neoplatonic ut pictura poesis and ut pictura musica ; Giorgio Vasari's "Last Judgment": a Neoplatonic vision / Liana De Girolami Cheney -- Philosophical traditions in contemporary Italian painting / John Hendrix.

ISBN:

0773469850
9780773469853
077348003X
9780773480032

Subject:

Aesthetics, Italian History.
Arts Italy History.
Neoplatonism.
Esthétique italienne Histoire.
Arts Italie Histoire.
Néo-platonisme.
Neo-Platonism.
Aesthetics, Italian.
Arts.
Neoplatonisme.
Kunst.
Neoplatonism Italy History.
Néo-platonisme Dans l'art.
Esthétique Italie Histoire.
Italy.

Form/genre:

Essay
essays.
Essays.
History.
Essais.

Added entries:

Cheney, Liana.
Hendrix, John Shannon.
Studies in art history (Edwin Mellen Press) ; v. 5.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 226877
Call No.: NX352.A1 N4 2002
Status: Available

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