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Two Notes on Francisco de Holanda
CONTENTS I. The authenticity of the Roman Dialogues II. Catalogue of Francisco de Holanda's writings, drawings, paintings and architectural designs.
Dialogues with Michelangelo
Michelangelo Buonarroti was already in his lifetime the most celebrated and influential artist in Europe. These Dialogues record his participation in the discussions about art hosted by Vittoria Colonna, Michelangelo's closest friend. The artist's opinions and ambitions during the period when he was painting The Last Judgment come vividly to life, as does the cultivated and passionate world in which he moved. No other text brings us so close to Michelangelo the artist, thinker, and poet. Francisco de Holanda (c.1517- 84) was a distinguished Portuguese painter and writer. His Dialogues are a polished and thoughtful evocation of intellectual society in16th-century Rome.
On Portraiture
Published to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the birth of celebrated Portuguese Renaissance court painter, architect and essayist Francisco de Holanda, On Portraiture brings back into circulation the earliest ever treatise dedicated to portraiture. This is the first published English translation.
On Antique Painting
Francisco de Hollanda completed Da pintura antigua in 1548, eight years after the young Portuguese humanist, painter, and architect had spent two years in Italy. Book I is the first Portuguese treatise on the theory and practice of painting. In contrast to Italian texts on artistic theory, which define painting as the imitation of nature, Hollanda's treatise, influenced by Neoplatonism, develops a theory of the painter as an original creator guided by divine inspiration. Book II, "Dialogues in Rome," is a record of three conversations with Michelangelo, Vittoria Colonna, and members of their circle and a fourth with Giulio Clovio. It is the most informative and intimate intellectual portrait of Michelangelo before the biographies by Vasari and Condivi.
The Artist as Reader
Based on the history of knowledge, the contributions to this volume elucidate various aspects of how, in the early modern period, artists’ education, knowledge, reading and libraries were related to the ways in which they presented themselves
Platonism
The sixteen essays in this volume trace the development of Platonism in the history of Western thought, starting with the revival of the Platonic tradition in the early modern period that followed the rediscovery and translation of important Greek texts. Special attention is devoted to Marsilio Ficino’s translations and commentaries; to the relationship between Platonism and Christianity; to the influence of Platonic metaphysics on the mystical tradition – in particular on Jacob Böhme and Emanuel Swedenborg; to the impact of idealism on the hermeneutical criticism of traditional philosophical categories and to the ways in which the so-called ‘Critique of Modernity’ promoted a new reading of the Platonic dialogues. The emphasis throughout is on demonstrating the theoretical and historical continuity of Platonism over the centuries. Contributors are: Laura Candiotto, Pierpaolo Ciccarelli, Anna Corrias, Francesca Maria Crasta, Eva del Soldato, Laura Follesa, Guido Giglioni, Nicholas Holland, Andrea Le Moli, Brunello Lotti, Cecilia Muratori, Arnold Oberhammer, Paula Oliveira e Silva, Valery Rees, Pasquale Terracciano, and Angelo Maria Vitale.
Cosmigraphics
Visual history of the discovery of the universe, told through illustrations, maps, diagrams, speculative works of representation, and data visualizations.
Ficino and Fantasy
Did the Florentine philosopher Marsilio Ficino (1433-99) influence the art of his time? This book starts with an exploration of Ficino’s views on the imagination and discusses whether, how and why these ideas may have been received in Italian Renaissance works of art.
Cultural Links Between Portugal and Italy in the Renaissance
Cultural links between Portugal and Italy, the two most innovative and influential European areas during the Renaissance, have never been systematically explored. In this unique and lavishly illustrated collection of essays, contributors map the cultural interconnections, exchanges, and influences between these two nations.
