Ficino and Fantasy: Imagination in Renaissance Art and Theory from Botticelli to Michelangelo

By: J. E. Van Den Doel, Marieke

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004459677
• ISBN13: 9789004459670
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 392 Pages