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"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'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's Platonic conceptions of the imaginati
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- Author
- J.E. van den Doel, Marieke
- Publisher
- Koninklijke Brill N.V.
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9789004459670
- Category
- art
- Subjects
- Philosophy, Art, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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