" ... grateful to the ... University of Massachusetts Lowell, for their support and contribution to the International Conference on Neoplatonism and the Arts in Italy held in Rome in January, 2000 and the publication of the collected essay on Neoplatonism and the Arts herewith included."--P. [xvii]
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Contents
Neoplatonism and the Arts / John Hendrix and Liana De Girolami Cheney -- Ch. 1. Divinized and De-Devinized Conceptions of the World and of Cosmos / Leonidas C. Bargeliotes -- Ch. 2. Plethon's Conception of Cosmos and its Impact on Western Cosmological Theories / Leonidas C. Bargeliotes -- Ch. 3. Ficino's Preincarnational Scenarios / Carol V. Kaske -- Ch. 4. Reading Platonic and Neoplatonic Notions of Mimesis With and Against Martin Heidegger / Constantinos V. Proimos -- Ch. 5. The Perfection of the Circle: Florentine Tondi and Neoplatonism / Roberta J. M. Olson -- Ch. 6. Neoplatonism, Augustinianism and Michelangelo's Masculine Women / Costanza Barbieri -- Ch. 7. Proclus' Foundations of Neoplatonic Aesthetics and El Greco's "Annunciation" / Cristos Terezis and Kalomoira Polychronopoulou -- Ch. 8. Francesco Borromini and Athanasius Kircher / John Hendrix -- Ch. 9. The Myth of Hercules as a Symbol / Valery Rees -- Ch. 10. Botticelli's "Camilla/Minerva and the Centaur": A Neoplatonic View of Antiquity / Liana De Girolami Cheney -- Ch. 11. Dante's Orpheus / Umberto Taccheri -- Ch. 12. Giorgio Vasari's "Scrittorio of Calliope": A Neoplatonic ut pictura poesis and ut pictura musica / Liana De Girolami Cheney -- Ch. 13. Giorgio Vasari's "Last Judgment": A Neoplatonic Vision / Liana De Girolami Cheney -- Ch. 14. Philosophical Traditions in Contemporary Italian Painting / John Hendrix