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Revisiting Petrarch and Giotto

Some remarks by Lorredan recently got me thinking about Giotto's frescoes of the virtues and vices in the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua. Then Jim Schulman's thread stimulated me some more. Revisiting Giotto, I came across a 2003 post of Robert's, his first on Aeclectic, wondering if the trumps were a co...

Re: Crypsis and Mimesis

I would assume that since Malatesta reburied Plethon in the Templo that he was the kind of Christian that Plethon was. That is, not a Christian that would deny the good aspects of Graeco-Roman religion and other religions of the ancient world, especially the mystery cults. He was probably a believer...

Re: Plato and Virtue(s)

Huck wrote, I don't have data, when Filelfo was fully accepted by the Sforza court. I found this (from the English Momus edition) http://books.google.de/books?id=2ZNcrOcCUlkC&pg=PR22&lpg=PR22&dq=francesco+filelfo+momus&source=bl&ots=wRC5IOFI2-&sig=m5miUrZGZcx2ZpChP_FVFtjyxQg&...

Re: Plato and Virtue(s)

That particular portrait, of Francis as cross-dresser, is often used to show how the Renaissance prince aspired to androgyny, possessing the virtues of both sexes. A few additions on the topic of Mantegna's Pallas expelling the virtues . According to Ronald Lightbown in Mantegna (p. 204), the broken...

Re: Plato and Virtue(s)

Sorry about foisting Parnassus on you, Huck. And thanks for the observation that Sforzinda was considerably later than Momus. Possibly Filelfo had been theorizing about an ideal city before then, before 1450, but if so Webb gives no evidence. He writes as though the Filarete's treatise had already b...

Re: Crypsis and Mimesis

Lorredan, about Plethon and the Malatesta Temple, I would suggest that neither was pagan. That's just narrow-minded propaganda. Pagan imagery doesn't exclude Christian faith. (And similarly, I think, gaming doesn't exclude philosophizing.) I hope you can read Hankins' Plato and the Renaissance ; unf...

Re: The Marriage Contract

That's an interesting comment about Filarete's ideal city with 16 points, Huck. Filelfo had a part in this ideal city, I don't know how much. Nicholas Webb writes: Filelfo had tried his own hand at la citta ideale through his contribution to the Trato di architectura of the artist Filarete. (p. 57 o...

Re: Plato and Virtue(s)

I didn't know the name Barzizzi. Thanks, Huck. I think that the dinner pieces were written in the 1430s and 1440s. I will look in the book's introduction the next time I'm at the library. Perhaps the lady on the medal is Virtue. She looks rather like the Virtue-lady in "Jupiter painting butterf...

Re: Plato and Virtue(s)

I've been out of town, away from computers, have some catching up to do. Huck wrote, with reference to Alberti's "On Virtue": This sounds very interesting. Is the text online? Well, I just took my copy from out of my back pocket, somewhat the worse for wear, and scanned it for you. So now ...

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