CALL FOR PAPERS:

Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting
19-21 March 2009
UCLA & The Getty Museum, Malibu

Renaissance Neoplatonism and the Arts?

Whereas the impact of Neoplatonism on Renaissance culture has always
been emphasized by researchers of the history of literature and
philosophy, it has been repeatedly ignored or even challenged by art
historians. With regard to Michelangelo's art, for instance, the
influence of Neoplatonism has been rejected alltogether by Eugenio Garin
and Horst Bredekamp, although his lyrics bespeak a thorough knowledge of
neoplatonic theories. Apart from the disregard of the results of
research done in other fields, the reason for this seems to be the
misconception that the interpreter of Renaissance art must decide
between Neoplatonism and Christian Orthodoxy although it is one of the
most outstanding characteristics of Neoplatonism to successfully connect
philosophy with Christian tradition.

This call welcomes papers on all aspects regarding the interrelation or
non-relation between philosophy and art in the Renaissance, be it case
studies or more general approaches.

Please send abstract of no more than 150 words and curriculum vitae to
Berthold Hub/ETH Zurich:
berthold.hubgta.arch.ehtz.ch

Deadline: 15 May 2008

Selected speakers must be member of the RSA at the time of the
conference