Parution : Karl A.E. Enenkel, “New Intellectual Saints”, Leyde, Brill, 2026

This book explores the reinvention of the Greek philosophers by seventeenth-century painters who transformed them into saintly icons of the intellectual life. Fundamental is the novel conception of these philosophers as itinerant beggars and dedicated writers of aphorisms. Drawing heavily on Diogenes Laertius, Erasmus and other author-collectors of apothegms, the painters create living and above all speaking images of the philosophers which were meant to trigger reflection on the core issues of human existence. Above all, these painted philosophers are shown to be men of paper, who used it to read, write, and think, and who engaged bodily and spiritually with the paper codex.

Karl Enenkel is Emeritus Professor of Medieval and Neo-Latin Literature at the University of Münster. He has published seven monographs and some one hundred and fifty articles and edited some forty-five collective volumes. Recently, he published a critical commented edition of Erasmus’ Apophthegmata, books V–VIII, in three volumes, which has appearedin the ASD series published by Brill.

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Fiammetta Campagnoli

Fiammetta Campagnoli est docteure en histoire de l'art moderne à l'Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Ses recherches se concentrent sur la… Lire la suite

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