Van den Doel Marieke J.E. Ficino and Fantasy. Imagination in Renaissance Art and Theory from Botticelli to Michelangelo

Brill, 2022. — 391 p. — (Aries Book Series 29). — ISBN 978-9004459670.Did the Florentine philosopher Marsilio Ficino (1433-99) influence the art of his time? This book starts with an exploration of Ficino’s views on the imagination and discusses whether, how and why these ideas may have been received in Italian Renaissance works of art.