Marsilio Ficino

(Fig. 3). The Medici Venus sculpture was in the collection of the Medici family, at the same time that Botticelli painted the Birth of Venus. As the Medici family were his supporters, Botticelli must have been familiar with the Medici Venus. Marsilio Ficino, leader of the Florentine Platonic movement, describes the Florentine Neoplatonic conception of beauty in his Commentary on Plato’s Symposium on Love, as the “splendor of the divine goodness’ and the “act or ray from [the Good] penetrating through

Phaedo, Apology, Crito, and Phaedrus were made only shortly before Gemistos's visit. Among the attendees of these lectures was Cosimo d'Medici. Cosimo later founded the Accademia Platonica in Florence. The first director of the Academy was Marsilio Ficino. Ficino recorded the following about the founding of the Academy: At the time when the Council was in progress between the Greeks and the Latins in Florence under Pope Eugenius, the great Cosimo, whom a decree of the Senate (Signoria) designated

MLove’s sweet nipples and voluptuous bust! Aphrodisia fruit to quell my lust! Had I the temerity and the conceit to compose a sonnet in the style of John Donne -- using circles and spheres as tropes -- such are metaphors I might use to construct my “strong lines”. And with Donne-like boldness I might even entitle my work: “Areolas of Love”. On the other hand, if I attempted the same task along Petrarchan lines, I’d meter out a couple of stanzas dedicated to a radiant but distance Laura with sapphire

Humanistic ideals, people like the immensely influential Marsilio Ficino began to share the ideas of antiquity once again. A Renaissance, or rebirth, of the human intellect was instigated, and with that came the invigoration of artistic pursuit. Reflecting the thinking of philosophers of the time, painters and sculptors like Titian, Michelangelo and Raphael used their craft to “advertise” this wisdom to the masses. The philosophy of Marsilio Ficino overlapped with the symbolism of famous paintings privy

2 MELANCHOLY Some of the first accounts of what we today call melancholy come from Ancient Greece. Melancholy derives from two Greek words, melas (black) and /{hole (bile) (Radden 2000: ix). Various writings of melancholy discuss the physical and emotional aspects of a person affected by melancholy. Likewise, music was believed to “alter the mind and influence moods” already by the people of ancient cultures (Garrido 2017: 68). In 400 BC, Hippocrates believed that depression and constant anxiety

— may be challenged from the perspective of the Platonist tradition. The ascent through philosophy to the vision of Beauty in itself in Plato's Symposium affirms the perception of beauty or nobility as the ultimate end and value of all knowledge. Marsilio Ficino's adaption of Plato in the Renaissance articulates a more metaphysical ascent which broadens the objects of knowledge in order to include the cosmos and the arts as well as philosophy. Together, these two accounts provide a foundation for

family. Living there he had the opportunity to meet important figures of the literary and humanistic scene of that time. Some of the people that became important to Michelangelo were Angelo Poliziano a philosopher, Pico delia Mirandola a poet, Marsilio Ficino and Cristoforo Landino {Dante’s annotator} and also studied under the guidance of a respected sculptor Bertoldo di Giovanni {1420-1491} once a student himself of Donatello {1386-1466}. Michelangelo spent two happy years there. During these years

the idea to become more widely known in a shorter period of time than was attempted by past scholars). The impact and growth of secularism and individualism in effect of humanism from the 1400s to 1700s rests highly on humanists like Raphael, Marsilio Ficino and …..who emphasized the teachings of humanism corresponding with the study of ancient texts which modified the educational system and governmental bodies and influenced a change in cultural aspects affecting Renaissance art based on their classical

Britannica). Lorenzo was born on January 1, 1449, in Florence, Italy, as the son of Piero the Gouty. He learned by example in his home and avoided being spoiled, which was hard because he grew up in a rich family. He attended the Platonic Academy of Marsilio Ficino, where he learned to play the lyre and sing, and

The Italian Renaissance was a period in history unlike most others; this was an era of ingenuity, expansion, and enlightenment that would revolutionize both society as the people of the Renaissance knew it to be, and as the future generations of individuals across the globe understand it today. Florence held itself out to be the birthplace of the Italian Renaissance, yet the people of this renaissance era never lost sight of the Greek and Roman heritage. The following essay will discuss the varying