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Book received on Iconology, Neoplatonism and the arts

1st Edition

Iconology, Neoplatonism, and the Arts in the Renaissance

Edited By 

Berthold Hub

Sergius Kodera

Copyright Year 2021


ISBN 9780367895297 Published September 23, 2020 by Routledge 246 Pages 33 B/W Illustrations

Book Description

The mid-twentieth century saw a change in paradigms of art history: iconology. The main claim of this novel trend in art history was that renowned Renaissance artists (such as Botticelli, Leonardo, or Michelangelo) created imaginative syntheses between their art and contemporary cosmology, philosophy, theology, and magic.

The Neoplatonism in the books by Marsilio Ficino and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola became widely acknowledged for its lasting influence on art. It thus became common knowledge that Renaissance artists were not exclusively concerned with problems intrinsic to their work but that their artifacts encompassed a much larger intellectual and cultural horizon. This volume brings together historians concerned with the history of their own discipline – and also those whose research is on the art and culture of the Italian Renaissance itself – with historians from a wide variety of specialist fields, in order to engage with the contested field of iconology.

The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, Renaissance history, Renaissance studies, historiography, philosophy, theology, gender studies, and literature.

Table of Contents

IntroductionSergius Kodera

1. Erwin Panofsky’s Idea (1924)

Andreas Thielemann

2. “My Friend Ficino”. Art History and Neoplatonism: From Intellectual Beauty to Material Beauty

Stéphane Toussaint

3. Seeing and the Unseen: Marsilio Ficino and the Visual Arts

Valery Rees

4. Negotiating Neoplatonic Image Theory: The Production of Mental Images in Marsilio Ficino and Giovan Battista della Porta’s Magic Lamps

Sergius Kodera

5. In Quest of Beauty: Gender Trouble in the Orlando Furioso

Marlen Bidwell-Steiner

6. Neoplatonism and Biography: Michelangelo’s Ganymede before and after Tommaso do’ Cavalieri

Berthold Hub

7. Botticelli’s Primavera and Contemporary Commentaries

Angela Dressen

8. “HIC EST HOMO PLATONIS”: Two Embodiments of Platonic Concepts of Man in Renaissance Art

Jeanette Kohl

9. Iconology as a Spiritual Exercise: The compositio loci in Ignatius of Loyola

Paul Richard Blum

10. Neither Drunk nor Sober: Dionysiac Inspiration and Renaissance Artistic Practices

Francois Quiviger

Appendix: Twilight of the Gods for Neoplatonism (1986/1992)Horst Bredekamp
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Editor(s)

Biography

Berthold Hub is Lecturer at the University of Vienna and visiting professor at the Beuth Hochschule für Technik Berlin.

Sergius Kodera is Senior Researcher at the New Design University St. Pölten and external reader in Philosophy at the University of Vienna.

ToC for Number 23 Dec 2020

General articles

Susanna Avery-Quash with Christine Riding (National Gallery, London), ‘Two hundred years of women benefactors at the National Gallery: an exercise in mapping uncharted territory’ 23/AQR1

Rex Butler (Monash University, Melbourne), ‘Rosalind Krauss: between modernism and post-medium’ 23/RB1

Thomas Hughes (Courtauld Institute), ‘Subjectivity, historical imagination and the language of art history’ 23/TH1

Janno Martens (KU Leuven), ‘Lost and found in translation: the post-war adaptation strategies of Sigfried Giedion and Alexander Dorner’ 23/JM1

Stefan Muthesius (University of East Anglia), ‘How to write plausibly about Architecture and architectural History, according to A. Rosengarten (1809-1893)’ 23/SM1  

Gavin Parkinson (Courtauld Institute), ‘On “sensibility”: art, art criticism and Surrealism in New York in the 1960s’ 23/GP1

Caroline Anjali Ritchie (Tate Britain and the University of York), ‘Dangerous disorder: ‘confusione’ in sixteenth-century Italian art treatises’ 23/CAR1

Modern Lives – Modern Legends: artist anecdotes since the eighteenth century: Guest edited by Hans C. Hönes (University of Aberdeen) and Anna Frasca-Rath (Friedrich-Alexander-University in Erlangen)

Hans C. Hönes (University of Aberdeen) and Anna Frasca-Rath (Friedrich-Alexander-University in Erlangen), ‘Introduction’ 23/HFR1

Hans C. Hönes (University of Aberdeen), ‘A match not made in heaven: artist anecdotes and the “Dialogues of the Dead”’ 23/HCH1

Mark Ledbury (Power Institute at the University of Sydney), ‘Trash talk and buried treasure: Northcote and Hazlitt‘ 23/ML1

Lois Oliver (University of Notre Dame (USA) in London), ‘Monk or lover? A nineteenth-century artist’s dilemma’ 23/LO1

Matthew Greg Sullivan (University of York), ’”Vivid presentiments of action and character”: Allan Cunningham’s Anecdotes of British Sculptors’ 23/MGS1

Anna Frasca-Rath (Friedrich-Alexander-University in Erlangen), ‘The origin (and decline) of painting: Iaia, Butades and the concept of ‘Women’s Art’ in the 19th Century‘ 23/AFR1

Benjamin Harvey (Mississippi State University), ‘Refusing to play Vasari: Roger Fry’s Cézannian anecdotes’ 23/BH1

Christine Hübner (Leipzig University),  ‘”Creations of the professor’s fertile mind” – August Hagen’s artists’ novels’ 23/CH1

The influence of the Vienna School of Art History before and after 1918 – Part 3

Stefaniia Demchuk (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv), ‘The influence of the Vienna School of Art History on Soviet and post-Soviet historiography: Bruegel’s case’ 23/SD1

Csilla Markója (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) and Kata Balázs (acb ResearchLab, Budapest), ’The Tolnay–Panofsky affair or, loyalty to the youth: Max Dvořák, the Vienna School, and the Sunday Circle’ 23/MB1

Zehra Tonbul (Istanbul Sehir University), ‘From Strzygowski’s “Orient oder Rom” to Hans Sedlmayr’s “Closest Orient”’ 23/ZT1

The Artist Interview – An interdisciplinary approach to its history, process and dissemination: Guest edited by Lucia Farinati (Kingston University) and Jennifer Thatcher (University of Edinburgh)

Lucia Farinati (Kingston University) and Jennifer Thatcher (University of Edinburgh), ‘Preface’ Kingston University 23/FT1

Papers

Lucia Farinati (Kingston University) and Jennifer Thatcher (University of Edinburgh), ‘Mapping the contemporary historiography of the artist interview as a literary and critical genre: a critical introduction’ 23/FT2

Reva Wolf (State University of New York at New Paltz), ‘The artist interview: an elusive history’ 23/RW1

Poppy Sfakianaki (University of Crete), ‘From ‘Portraits d’artistes’ to the interviewer’s portrait: interviews of modern artists by Jacques Guenne in L’art vivant (1925–1930)’ 23/PS1

Documents for The Artist Interview

Lucia Farinati (Kingston University) and Jennifer Thatcher (University of Edinburgh), ‘Commentary on the documents’ 23/FT3

Clive Phillpot (Independent), ‘Both sides of the microphone’ 23/CP1

Jean Wainwright (The University for the Creative Arts, London), ‘Small lies? Authenticity and the artist interview’ 23/JW1

Claire M. Holdsworth (Independent), ‘Vocal acts: video art and the artist’s voice’ 23/CH1

Lauren Cross (Independent), ‘Artist interviews and revisionist art history: women of African descent, critical practice and methods of rewriting dominant narratives’ 23/LC1

Translations

Karl Johns (trans.), ‘Ernst Gombrich: “Some reminiscences of Julius von Schlosser as a teacher”, Kritische Berichte, 16th Year, 1988 no. 4, pp. 5-9’. Originally published as Ernst H. Gombrich, ‘Einige Erinnerungen an Julius von Schlosser als Lehrer’, Kritische Berichte 4/1988, pp. 5-9. 23/KJ1

Karl Johns (ed. and trans.), ‘Erica Tietze-Conrat, “On Drawings”’. Originally published as ‘Ueber Handzeichnungen’, Kunstgeschichtliche Anzeigen Beiblatt de Mitteilungen des Instituts für österreichische Geschichtsforschung, Redigiert von Max Dvořák, Jahrgang 1913 Heft 1/2, Innsbruck: Wagner 1913, pp. 41-51, signed February 1914. 23/KJ2

Karl Johns (ed. and trans.), ‘Erica Tietze-Conrat, “On leg poses in art history”’. Originally published as ‘J. J. Tikannen, “Die Beinstellungen in der Kunstgeschichte. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der künstlerischen Motive”, Tom. XLII Nr. 1 der Acta Societatis Scientiarum Fennicae Helsingfors 1912’, Kunstgeschichtliche Anzeigen Beiblatt der ‘Mitteilungen des Instituts für österreichische Geschichtsforschung, Redigiert von Max Dvořák, Jahrgang 1912 Heft 3/4, Innsbruck: Wagner 1912, pp. 66-69. 23/KJ3

Document

David Cast (Bryn Mawr College), ‘Germany/ England: inside/outside’ 23/DC1

Reviews

Jeffrey Collins (Bard Graduate Center), ‘Market values in eighteenth-century Rome’. Review of: The Art Market in Rome in the Eighteenth Century: A Study in the Social History of Art, edited by Paolo Coen, Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2018 [Studies in the History of Collecting and Art Markets, vol. 5], xii + 234 pp., 80 colour illus., €116/$134 hdbk, ISBN 978-90-04-33699-5. 23/JC1

Cynthia Paces (The College of New Jersey), ‘Nationalising Czech Modernism’. Review of: Marta Filipová, Modernity, History, and Politics in Czech Art, Series: Routledge Research in Art and Politics, New York: Routledge, 2019, 224 pp, 31 b. & w. illus., bibliography, index, $155 hdbk, ISBN 978-1138585669. 23/CP1

William E. Wallace (Washington University in St. Louis), ‘Michelangelo’s principles or Panofsky’s?’. Review of: Michelangelo’s Design Principles, Particularly in Relation to Those of Raphael by Erwin Panofsky, edited by Gerda Panofsky, translated by Joseph Spooner, Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2020, ISBN 978-0-691-6526-4. 23/WW1

Alex Weintraub (Columbia University), ‘Art History in light of Mallarmé’. Review of: Trevor Stark, Total Expansion of the Letter: Avant-Garde Art and Language after Mallarmé,Cambridge: MIT Press, 2020, 440pp., 10 col. plates, 60 b. & w. illus., $£45.00 hdbk, ISBN 9780262043717. And Andrei Pop, A Forest of Symbols: Art, Science, and Truth in the Long Nineteenth Century, Cambridge: MIT Press, 15 col. plates, 101 b. & w. illus., £25.00 hdbk, ISBN 9781935408369. 23/AW1