Parution : Marieke J.E. van den Doel et Maria Fiammetta Iovine (dir.), “Visual Humanism – Collaborations between Artists and Humanists (1450-1650)”, Leyde, Brill, 2026

Renaissance artists and humanists worked closely together on artistic projects that promoted the revival of antiquity and restored the pagan gods to their former glory. Artists often took on the role of ‘visual humanist’ themselves. This book examines the role of artists in various collaborations and addresses the question: was the revival of the pagan gods an artistic game or a religious practice? It thus provides new insights into a much-researched debate.

Marieke van den Doel is Assistant Professor of History of Humanism at the University for Humanistic Studies in Utrecht. In 2022, she published Ficino and Fantasy: Imagination in Renaissance Art and Theory from Botticelli to Michelangelo. Previously, she was Director of Studies in Art History at the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome.

Maria Fiammetta Iovine holds a joint PhD in Early Modern Philosophy and Science from Radboud University Nijmegen and the University of Toulouse. She currently works on the NWO Rubicon research project When Rome lost the Golden Age. Academic Cultures at the Dawn of the Enlightenment.

Director’s Remarks
Michael W. Kwakkelstein

Acknowledgements
Marieke van den Doel

List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
A Note in Passing
Maria Fiammetta Iovine

Introduction
Marieke van den Doel

1 Agential Entanglements in Renaissance Art: Locating Ancient Gods in Religious Discourse
Kocku von Stuckrad

2 Reframing the ‘Twilight of the Gods’
Valery Rees

3 Visual Humanism and Paganism in the Tempio Malatestiano in Rimini
Marieke van den Doel

4 The Problem of Religion in Renaissance Allegory
Joost Keizer

5 Who Is Best at Restoring Ancient Rome? Collaboration and Rivalry between Visual Artists and Humanist Writers in the ‘Renaissance Battle for Rome’
Susanna De Beer

6 Sailing the Sea of Fortune: Visual Humanism by Jacques de Gheyn II and Hugo Grotius
Elsje van Kessel

7 The Olympians on the Renaissance Stage: Giovan Battista della Porta’s Coelestis Physiognomonia (1603) and the Planetary Gods
Sergius Kodera

8 The Visual Language of Botticelli’s Primavera
Gert Jan van der Sman

9 Letture della Primavera e una proposta per la perduta decorazione della Villa dello Spedaletto
Alessandro Cecchi

10 Drawing on Vitruvius and Pliny: Raphael’s Technical and Stylistic Revival of Ancient Roman Painting in the Stufetta of Cardinal Bibbiena
Pax Veerbeek

11 Pinturicchio Revives Ancient Egypt in the Borgia Apartments
Marieke van den Doel

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