English | 2022 | ISBN: 9004459677 | 391 Pages | True PDF | 66 MB

Did the Florentine philosopher Marsilio Ficino (1433-99) influence the art of his time? This book starts with an exploration of Ficino's views on the imagination and discusses whether, how and why these ideas may have been received in Italian Renaissance works of art.
Marieke J.E. van den Doel is Assistant Professor of History of Humanism at the University of Humanistic Studies in Utrecht. Previously, she was Director of Studies in Art History at the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR) and Curator of Exhibitions at Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam.