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2011-06-23Zeitschriftenartikel

Inaugural Lecture at the Warburg Institute, London

Gardner, Julian
2011-06-23Zeitschriftenartikel

Socrates Becomes Narcissus: Moral Mediation and Artistic Representation in Achille Bocchi’s Symbolicarum quaestionum

Packwood, David

Achille Bocchi’s Symbolicarum quaestionum of 1555 shows Socrates drawing a preparatory design, in the presence of his demon. Socrates as artist was used to illustrate Bocchi’s adage, “The significance of weighty things is ...
2011-06-23Zeitschriftenartikel

The Marble Philosophers and the search for pia sapientia

Dressen, Angela

Central to the design of the Siena cathedral pavement is the Mountain of Wisdom. It is located among Sages like Hermes Trismegistus and the Sibyls. Originating in a larger study of the roles of Neoplatonic, Gnostic and ...
2011-06-23Zeitschriftenartikel

The Representation of Philosophers in the Art of Salvator Rosa

Langdon, Helen

Salvator Rosa longed to be considered a philosopher-painter, and to win a reputation for his learned representation of novel subjects. This essay traces the development of this kind of subject matter in his art, from the ...