Original scientific paper
Michelangelo and Neo-Platonism in Renaissance Art – Concerning the Sistine Chapel Ceiling and Moses
Marko Tokić
orcid.org/0000-0001-7771-6179
; J. J. Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Philosophy, Osijek, Croatia
Abstract
In the paper we propose attitude that Neoplatonism in Michelangelo’s sculpture is present in a deeper way than it is understood by those who in Michelangelo’s art find merely simbolic illustration of specific Neoplatonic learning. In Michelangelo’s sculpture we do not see Neoplatonism as a symbolism that is indicating a specific Neoplatonic theory. In that case we would be talking about Neoplatonism in the art as the external considering the proper essence of the work of art, since the proper emergence and beingness of the work of art is not founded in the act of theoretical consideration, but in handicrafting. Our starting point is the understanding that Neoplatonism with Michelangelo realizes itself directly out of artistic formation in the proper internal form of the work of art.
Keywords
art; Neoplatonism; painting; sculpture; imitation; handicraft; iconography; soul; body; nature; matter; disposition; symmetry; beauty; circuit
Hrčak ID:
62951
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Publication date:
21.7.2010.
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