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Introduction

Book cover © Routledge

Book cover © Routledge

Sergius Kodera – 2020

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 rather encompassed a much larger intellectual and cultural horizon. The mid-twentieth century saw a change in paradigms of art history: iconology. Even though iconology undeniably had its greatest impact on the study of European Renaissance art, in principle this approach can be applied to any work of art: or at least this was believed by the proponents of this tradition. Iconology was also motivated by the wish to supplant a merely 'aestheticizing' practice of art history with a new form of highly erudite research into the intellectual backgrounds of individual works of art. The chapter also presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book.

Title
Introduction
Publisher
Routledge
Location
New York
Keywords
Book Chapter; RA 2: Travelling Matters
Date
2020-09-23
Appeared in
Berthold Hub, Sergius Kodera (Eds.). Iconology, Neoplatonism and Arts in the Renaissance (= Routledge Research in Art History)
Type
Text
Size or Duration
1–11
Coverage
This publication is the result of work carried out in Research Area 2: Travelling Matters.
How to cite:
Sergius Kodera. "Introduction." In Iconology, Neoplatonism and Arts in the Renaissance, edited by Berthold Hub and Sergius Kodera, 1–11. Routledge Research in Art History. New York: Routledge, 2020. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003019671.