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New Intellectual Saints
The Reinvention of the Ancient Greek Philosophers as Aphoristic Writers and Itinerant Beggars in Seventeenth-Century Painting
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This book explores the reinvention of the Greek philosophers by seventeenth-century painters who transformed them into saintly icons of the intellectual life. Fundamental is the novel conception of these philosophers as itinerant beggars and dedicated writers of aphorisms. Drawing heavily on Diogenes Laertius, Erasmus and other author-collectors of apothegms, the painters create living and above all speaking images of the philosophers which were meant to trigger reflection on the core issues of human existence. Above all, these painted philosophers are shown to be men of paper, who used it to read, write, and think, and who engaged bodily and spiritually with the paper codex.
Karl Enenkel is Emeritus Professor of Medieval and Neo-Latin Literature at the University of Münster. He has published seven monographs and some one hundred and fifty articles and edited some forty-five collective volumes. Recently, he published a critical commented edition of Erasmus' Apophthegmata, books VâVIII, in three volumes, which has appearedin the ASD series published by Brill.
Academic institutions and libraries, researchers, and graduate students. Keywords: reception of Greek philosophy; the classical tradition in the visual arts; Italian painting of the seventeenth century; iconography; icons of intellectuals; paper as materialisation of philosophy; paragone of painting and philosophy; portraits of itinerant beggar philosophers; philosophers as authors of apophthegms (aphorisms); Diogenes Laertius and his reception; collections of apophthegms; Erasmus.