Representations of Philosophers

 Last year I had the pleasure of contributing a paper at the Representation of Philosophers session at the Renaissance Society of America, in Venice. My paper was Socrates Becomes Narcissus: Moral Mediation and Artistic Representation in Achille Bocchi’s Symbolicarum quaestionum, (left). You can read that here, along with three other papers on philosophers in visual art and culture.  The session was organised by Helen Langdon who also contributes a paper on representation of philosophers in Salvator Rosa. I like this method of disseminating research via the web, and I hope to do more of it in the future.

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[H Niyazi]

Great stuff! I very much look forward to reading these. I'm imagining the School of Athens gets mentioned somewhere among them, surely the most well known depiction on philosophers in Western art.

H

[l notes]

At the occasion of the Conference
'Lucretius and Modernity'
New York University, October 26-28, 2011
I posted "'Of the Nature of Things' illustrated", a selection from my search results on text illustrations in the numerous editions of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura.
My conclusion is that relatively few artists were inspired by Lucretius' marvellous work.

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