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Tables of Contents for Neoplatonism and the Arts
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Illustrations
vii
Preface
xv
Acknowledgement
xvii
Introduction Neoplatonism and the Arts
1
12
John Hendrix
Liana De Girolami Cheney
Part One: Philosophical Inquiries on Neoplatonism
Divinized and De-Devinized Conceptions of the World and of Cosmos
13
20
Leonidas C. Bargeliotes
Plethon's Conception of Cosmos and its Impact on Western Cosmological Theories
33
20
Leonidas C. Bargeliotes
Ficino's Preincarnational Scenarios
53
12
Carol V. Kaske
Reading Platonic and Neoplatonic Notions of Mimesis With and Against Martin Heidegger
65
16
Constantinos V. Proimos
Part Two: Religious Symbolism and Neoplatonism
The Perfection of the Circle: Florentine Tondi and Neoplatonism
81
28
Roberta J. M. Olson
Neoplatonism, Augustinianism and Michelangelo's Masculine Women
109
14
Costanza Barbieri
Proclus' Foundations of Neoplatonic Aesthetics and El Greco's ``Annunciation''
123
10
Cristos Terezis
Kalomoira Polychronopoulou
Francesco Borromini and Athanasius Kircher
133
18
John Hendrix
Part Three: Mythological Imagery and Neoplatonism
The Myth of Hercules as a Symbol
151
26
Valery Rees
Botticelli's ``Camilla/Minerva and the Centaur'': A Neoplatonic View of Antiquity
177
12
Liana De Girolami Cheney
Dante's Orpheus
189
26
Umberto Taccheri
Giorgio Vasari's ``Scrittorio of Calliope'': A Neoplatonic ut pictura poesis and ut pictura musica
215
12
Liana De Girolami Cheney
Giorgio Vasari's ``Last Judgment'': A Neoplatonic Vision
227
22
Liana De Girolami Cheney
Philosophical Traditions in Contemporary Italian Painting
249
John Hendrix
Part Four: Illustrations