Renaissance artists and humanists worked closely together on artistic projects that promoted the revival of antiquity and restored the pagan gods to their former glory. Artists often took on the role of âvisual humanistâ themselves. This book examines the role of artists in various collaborations and addresses the question: was the revival of the pagan gods an artistic game or a religious practice? It thus provides new insights into a much-researched debate.
Marieke van den Doel is Assistant Professor of History of Humanism at the University for Humanistic Studies in Utrecht. In 2022, she published Ficino and Fantasy: Imagination in Renaissance Art and Theory from Botticelli to Michelangelo. Previously, she was Director of Studies in Art History at the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome.
Maria Fiammetta Iovine holds a joint PhD in Early Modern Philosophy and Science from Radboud University Nijmegen and the University of Toulouse. She currently works on the NWO Rubicon research project When Rome lost the Golden Age. Academic Cultures at the Dawn of the Enlightenment.
Academic institutes, libraries, specialists, students of early modern art history and renaissance humanism / history of ideas/ religious studies (paganism), focus is on Italy and The Netherlands. Keywords: Art history, renaissance art, early modern art, early modern artist, renaissance artist, humanism, renaissance humanism, Italy, The Netherlands, iconography, iconographies, learned artist, ekphrasis, allegory, paganism, pagan gods, classical deities, classical gods, planetary gods, ancient gods, Sigismondo Malatesta, Tempio Malatestiano, Malatesta, Rimini, Egyptianism, Egyptian gods, Pinturicchio, Borgia, Osiris, Isis, Raphael, Vitruvius, Stufetta, Ficino, Neoplatonism, Platonism, Mantegna, Botticelli, Warburg, Rome, Jacques de Gheijn II, Giovan Battista della Porta, della Porta.