A ROUTLEDGE RESEARCH IN ART HISTORY = ICONOLOGY, NEOPLATONISM, AND THE ARTS IN THE RENAISSANCE EDITED BY BERTHOLD HUB AND SERGIUS KODERA aIconology, Neoplatonism, and the Arts in the Renaissance 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. Berthold Hub is Lecturer at the University of Vienna and visiting professor at the Beuth Hochschule fir Technik Berlin Sergius Kodera is Senior Researcher at the New Design University St. Pélten and external reader in Philosophy at the University of Vienna. Cover Image: Michelangelo, Giuliano de Medici. Florence, San Lorenzo, Medici Chapel. Photo by Aurelio AmendolaFirst published 2021 by Routledge 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY 10017 and by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN- Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2021 Taylor & Francis, “The right of Berthold Hub and Sergius Kodera to be identified as the authors of the ‘editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. ‘Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and arc used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Hub, Berthold, editor. | Kedcra, Sergius, 1963- editor. | leonology: Neoplatonism and Art in the Renaissance (Conference) (2011 : Universitit Wien} ‘Title: Iconology, neoplatonism, and the arts in the Renaissance / edited by Berthold Hub and Sergius Kodera, Description: New York : Routledge, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2020025119 (print) | LCCN 2020025120 (ebook) | ISBN 9780367895297 {hardback} | ISBN 9781003019671 (chook) Subjects: LCSH: Art, Renaissance--Historiography. | Art and philosophy. | Neoplatonism. Classification: LCC N6370 .129 2021 (print) | LCC N6370 (ebook) | DDC 709.02/4--de23 LC record available at heeps:/lcen.loe.gov/2020025119 LC ebook record available at hecpss/fleen.Joc.gov/2020025120 ISBN: 978-0-367-89529-7 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-003-01967-1 (ebk) “Typeset in Sabon by Taylor & Francis BooksContents List of Figures List of Contributors Introduction SERGIUS KODERA 1 Erwin Panofsky’s Idea (1924) ANDREAS THIELEMANN 2. “My Friend Ficino”, Art History and Neoplatonism: From Intellectual to Material Beauty STEPHANE 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 de’ 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, ix 62 7 94 106 160vi Contents 9 Iconology as a Spiritual Exercise: The compositio loci in Ignatius of Loyola 183 PAUL RICHARD BLUM 10 Neither Drunk nor Sober: Dionysiac Inspiration and Renaissance Artistic Practices 200 FRANGOIS QUIVIGER, Appendix: Twilight of the Gods for Neoplatonism (1986/1992) 216 HORST BREDEKAMP Index 230