Vermeer and Plato: Painting the Ideal - Hardcover

Huerta, Robert D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0838756069 ISBN 13: 9780838756065

Verlag: Bucknell University Press,U.S., 2005

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Book by Huerta Robert D

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In a study that sweeps from Classical Antiquity to the seventeenth century, Robert D. Huerta explores the common intellectual threads that link the art of Johannes Vermeer to the philosophy of Plato. Examining the work of luminaries such as Plotinus, Nicholas of Cusa, St. Augustine, Ficino, Raphael, Keller, Galileo, Descartes, and Hoydens, Huerta argues that the concurrence of idealism and naturalism in Vermeer's art reflects the Dutch master's assimilation of Platonic and classical ideals, concepts that were part of the Renaissance revival of classical thought. Pursuing a Platonic path, Vermeer used his paintings as a visual dialectic, as part of his program to create a physical instantiation of the Ideal. This book is illustrated. Robert D. Huerta is an independent historian, focusing on the intersection between art and science during the early modern period.

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• Verlag: Bucknell University Press,U.S.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0838756069
• ISBN 13: 9780838756065
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 148