Michelangelo and Neo-platonism in Renaissance Art – Concerning the Sistine Chapel Ceiling and Moses Cover Image

Michelangelo i novoplatonizam u renesansnoj umjetnosti – s osvrtom na svod Sikstinske kapele i Mojsija
Michelangelo and Neo-platonism in Renaissance Art – Concerning the Sistine Chapel Ceiling and Moses

Author(s): Marko Tokić
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts
Published by: Hrvatsko Filozofsko Društvo
Keywords: art; Neoplatonism; painting; sculpture; imitation; handicraft; iconography; soul; body; nature; matter; disposition; symmetry; beauty; circuit

Summary/Abstract: In the paper we propose attitude that Neoplatonism in Michelangelo’s sculpture is present in a deeper way than it is understood by those who in Michelangelo’s art find merely simbolic illustration of specific Neoplatonic learning. In Michelangelo’s sculpture we do not see Neoplatonism as a symbolism that is indicating a specific Neoplatonic theory. In that case we would be talking about Neoplatonism in the art as the external considering the proper essence of the work of art, since the proper emergence and beingness of the work of art is not founded in the act of theoretical consideration, but in handicrafting. Our starting point is the understanding that Neoplatonism with Michelangelo realizes itself directly out of artistic formation in the proper internal form of the work of art.

  • Issue Year: 30/2010
  • Issue No: 01-02
  • Page Range: 33-60
  • Page Count: 28
  • Language: Croatian