04303nam 22006375 450 991016274250332120240503183814.0978140088512110.1515/9781400885121(CKB)3710000001024786(MiAaPQ)EBC4812495(StDuBDS)EDZ0001816155(OCoLC)974589768(MdBmJHUP)muse60994(DE-B1597)479702(OCoLC)984644035(DE-B1597)9781400885121(EXLCZ)99371000000102478620190523d2017 fg engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierThe Art of Philosophy Visual Thinking in Europe from the Late Renaissance to the Early Enlightenment /Susanna BergerPrinceton, NJ :Princeton University Press,[2017]©20171 online resource (337 pages) illustrationsPreviously issued in print: 2017.9780691172279 0691172277 9781400885121 1400885124 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Abbreviations --Introduction --1. Apin's Cabinet of Printed Curiosities --2. Thinking through Plural Images of Logic --3. The Visible Order of Student Lecture Notebooks --4. Visual Thinking in Logic Notebooks and Alba amicorum --5. The Generation of Art as the Generation of Philosophy --Appendix 1. Catalogue of Surviving Impressions of Philosophical Plural Images --Appendix 2. Transcriptions of the Texts Inscribed onto Philosophical Plural Images --Notes --Bibliography --Index --Illustration CreditsThe first book to explore the role of images in philosophical thought and teaching in the early modern periodDelving into the intersections between artistic images and philosophical knowledge in Europe from the late sixteenth to the early eighteenth centuries, The Art of Philosophy shows that the making and study of visual art functioned as important methods of philosophical thinking and instruction. From frontispieces of books to monumental prints created by philosophers in collaboration with renowned artists, Susanna Berger examines visual representations of philosophy and overturns prevailing assumptions about the limited function of the visual in European intellectual history.Rather than merely illustrating already existing philosophical concepts, visual images generated new knowledge for both Aristotelian thinkers and anti-Aristotelians, such as Descartes and Hobbes. Printmaking and drawing played a decisive role in discoveries that led to a move away from the authority of Aristotle in the seventeenth century. Berger interprets visual art from printed books, student lecture notebooks, alba amicorum (friendship albums), broadsides, and paintings, and examines the work of such artists as Pietro Testa, Léonard Gaultier, Abraham Bosse, Dürer, and Rembrandt. In particular, she focuses on the rise and decline of the "plural image," a genre that was popular among early modern philosophers. Plural images brought multiple images together on the same page, often in order to visualize systems of logic, metaphysics, natural philosophy, or moral philosophy.Featuring previously unpublished prints and drawings from the early modern period and lavish gatefolds, The Art of Philosophy reveals the essential connections between visual commentary and philosophical thought.Art, Modern18th centuryArt, RenaissanceVisual communication in artEuropeHistoryAesthetics, Modern18th centuryAesthetics, Modern17th centuryArt and philosophyEuropeArt, ModernArt, Renaissance.Visual communication in artHistory.Aesthetics, ModernAesthetics, ModernArt and philosophy190Berger Susanna763106DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910162742503321The Art of Philosophy2895753UNINA