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Étiqueté : iconologie

Actualité de la recherche en histoire de l’art de la Renaissance / Parutions

Parution : Tack Laura, “The Knife, Temporal Ruptures in Revelation and Transformation”, Louvain, Peeters Publishers, 2022

The Greek sculptor Lysippos of Sicyon (fourth century BCE) represented Kairos carrying a razor in his left hand. According to the epigram dedicated to this statue by Posidippus of Pella (mid-third-century BCE), the Greek divinity of the opportune moment is said to move with a swiftness that is sharper than any razor’s edge. Why does Kairos carry a razor in his hand? And how does the knife relate to opportunity and temporality? This book embarks...

Actualité de la recherche en histoire de l’art de la Renaissance / Parutions

Parution : Berthold Hub et Sergius Kodera, Iconology, Neoplatonism, and the Arts in the Renaissance, Londres, Routledge, 2020

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...