@book{3678a73cbb4645faa1727d0f1323a6bf,
title = "Ficino and Fantasy. Imagination in Renaissance Art and Theory from Botticelli to Michelangelo",
abstract = "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{\textquoteright}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 Ficino{\textquoteright}s Platonic conceptions of the imagination may have been received in the art of the Italian Renaissance. The discussion explores Ficino{\textquoteright}s possible influence on the work of Botticelli and Michelangelo, and examines the appropriation of Ficino{\textquoteright}s ideas by early modern art theorists.",
author = "{van den Doel}, M.",
year = "2021",
month = dec,
day = "9",
language = "American English",
isbn = "978-90-04-45967-0",
series = "Aries Book Series",
publisher = "Brill Academic Publishers",
address = "Netherlands",
}