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Ficino and fantasy : imagination in Renaissance art and theory from Botticelli to Michelangelo /

"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 phi...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Doel, Marieke van den (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]
Collection:Aries book series ; v. 29.
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Table des matières:
  • Art and humanism in the Renaissance
  • 'Such stuff as dreams are made on' : a brief history of the imagination
  • Phantasia through Ficino's lense : focus, refraction and diffusion
  • Botticelli's Primavera interpreted
  • Ficino's fantasy and Michelangelo's Dream
  • Alberti, Bartoli, Comanini : imagination in early-modern art theory
  • Ficino and the imagination : conclusion and summary.