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Renaissance Neoplatonism
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The Renaissance
Neoplatonism
• Power/ Authority of the Church was dwindling. ie: Protestant Reformation.
• Emphasis on human dignity and critical thought. New human interests.
• Scientific Revolution and new sense of freedom and individualism.
• Awakening of absolute beauty and total perfection.
Influence on Art
A philosophical movement, inspired by Plotinus (204/5- 270AD) that reinterpreted the philosophy of Plato. It held that the material world was a reflection or copy of the immaterial world of the “Ideal Forms”.
Medieval Art before Neoplatonism
Neoplatonic Renaissance artists looked at the beauty of the human body or the natural landscape as a reflection of the divine, and contemplated the journey from the earthly to the divine. Michelangelo is perhaps the epitome of the neoplatonic Renaissance artist, and a great deal of his works reflect this.
'The tomb of Giuliano de' Medici'
Built between 1520 and 1534, it is widely held to be one of Michelangelo's most stunning achievements.
Botticelli ‘La Primavera’ (1478) 7’ x 10’
Its original title is unknown; it was first called 'La Primavera' by the artist/art historian Giorgio Vasari, who only saw it some 70 years after it was painted.
Michelangelo's ‘Pieta’ (1500)
Michelangelo's exact job description for the project was to create "the most beautiful work of marble in Rome, one that no living artist could better."
Raphael, Three Graces (1501-1505.)
The Three Graces is Raphael's first study of the female nude in both front and back views.
What happened to Neoplatonism?
References
Patrick, James. Renaissance and Reformation:
Agincourt, Battle of - Dams and drainage. London: Marshall Cavendish, 2007.
Finnan, Vincent. "Primavera." Italy Renaissance Art, 2015.
Accessed August 25th 2015, http://www.italian-renaissance-art.com/Primavera.html.
Hughes, Anthony. "Michelangelo." London: Phaidon P, 1997.
Casini, L. (2015). Renaissance philosophy. Retrieved from http://www.iep.utm.edu.
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Alexandrakis, A. (2002). Neoplatonism and western aesthetics. Albany, New York: State.
University of New York.
Brunet-Boccia, G. (2013). Philosophy and the transformation: Art in the high renaissance.
Retrieved from http://meta.spcollege.edu/index.php/philosophy-and-transformation-art-in-the-high-renaissance/.
By Giselle Bertino-Clarke & Caitlin McCracken
“Thus I now know how fraught with error was the fond imagination which made Art my idol and my king…no brush, no chisel would quieten the soul.” -Michelangelo