Christiane L. Joost-Gaugier

Pythagoras and Renaissance Europe

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Produktbeschreibung

Christiane L. Joost-Gaugier offers the first systematic study of Pythagoras and his influence on mathematics, astronomy, philosophy, religion, medicine, music, the occult, and social life - as well as on architecture and art - in the late medieval and early modern eras. Following the threads of admiration for this ancient Greek sage from the fourteenth century to Kepler and Galileo in the seventeenth, this book demonstrates that Pythagoras's influence in intellectual circles - Christian, Jewish, and Arab - was more widespread than has previously been acknowledged. Joost-Gaugier shows how this admiration was reflected in ideas that were applied to the visual arts by a number of well known architects and artists who sought, through the use of a visual language inspired by the memory of Pythagoras, to obtain perfect harmony in their creations. Among these were Alberti, Bramante, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 630g
• ISBN-13: 9781107415232
• ISBN-10: 1107415233
• Artikelnr.: 41248518

Autorenporträt

Christiane L. Joost-Gaugier is an internationally known and distinguished scholar. A three-times graduate of Harvard, she has published extensively in research journals, conference proceedings, and international catalogues on subjects ranging from classical literature to medieval architecture to Renaissance art and intellectual history. A recipient of grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Philosophical Society, and the National Endowment for the Humanities among others, she is the author of Jacopo Bellini: Selected Drawings, Raphael's Stanza della Segnatura: Meaning and Invention, and Measuring Heaven: Pythagoras and His Influence on Thought and Art in Antiquity and the Middle Ages.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Pythagoras, Man for the Renaissance: 1. Prologue: the diffusion of
knowledge about Pythagoras in the Renaissance; 2. The emergence of 'Saint'
Pythagoras in the early Renaissance; 3. The apotheosis of Pythagoras in the
sixteenth century; Part II. The Many Faces of Renaissance Pythagoreanism:
4. The Pythagorean tradition in the early fifteenth century; 5. The
strengthening and deepening of Pythgoreanism in the later fifteenth
century; 6. The maturation and vicissitudes of Pythagoreanism in the
sixteenth century; Part III. Pythagoreanism in Architecture and Art: 7.
Renaissance images of Pythagoras; 8. The search for harmony in architecture
and art of the fifteenth century; 9. Finding harmony: form and meaning in
architecture and art of the sixteenth century; 10. Conclusions: the prince
of Italian philosophy and the birth of harmony as an aesthetic notion.