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Vasari and portraiture: function, aesthetics and propaganda [PDF]

Journal of Art Historiography, 2023
This article examines how portraiture is presented in Giorgio Vasari’s Lives (1550 and 1568). The Lives claims portraits are to remember the dead and instruct the living; to do this, they must be accurate copies of the sitter.
Joseph Hammond
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Why Aquinas Stopped Commenting on Boethius’s De Trinitate

Studia Gilsoniana, 2020
The article is an attempt to answer the question of why Aquinas stops his commentary on Boethius’s De Trinitate at question six, article four, whereas this is before the point in the treatise where Boethius gets to the heart of the subject matter.
Faustinus Ik. Ugwuanyi
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Algo más sobre Venus y Cupido en las Soledades

Criticón, 2022
When dealing with the couple of Venus and Cupido, the article sets out to reconstruct the mythological theme underlyng the amorous plot of the Soledades which their protagonist is faced with.
Giulia Poggi
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Ibn Gabirol and Judah ha-Levi’s Usage of Dialogue: The Role of the Disciple in Fons Vitae and that of the King in Kitāb al-Khazarī

Religions, 2019
The literary framework of Solomon Ibn Gabirol’s Fons Vitae is a conversation between a master and a disciple. In this article, the nature of the disciple’s questions will be analyzed in order to explain the advantages of the dialogical ...
Aviram Ravitsky
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The Influence of Renaissance Neoplatonism on Michelangelo [PDF]

, 1977
The problem of interpreting Michelangelo\u27s art, and poetry in terms of the Renaissance philosophy of Neoplatonism has long been debated. After establishing that Michelangelo was personally acquainted with the major philosophers Marsillo Finco and ...
Riley, Judith Carole
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Eros and Etiology in Love’s Labour’s Lost

Humanities, 2022
In Love’s Labour’s Lost, the creation of an academe where study is posited as the antidote to the diseases of the mind caused by worldly desire results in an epidemic of lovesickness.
Darryl Chalk
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Eros as the Meeting of Ecstasies in Christ: The Eucharistic Link between Divine and Human Love in Dionysius the Areopagite

International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 28, Issue 4, Page 453-473, October 2026.
Abstract Dionysius's vision of eros as a meeting of reciprocal ecstasies – where lover and beloved each pass out of themselves and into the other – has often been read as unifying dimensions of love otherwise thought to stand in tension, such as giving and receiving.
Noah Karger
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Renaissance of the Trinitarian: Erwin Schadel's Integral Perspective

Modern Theology, Volume 42, Issue 4, Page 979-994, October 2026.
Abstract Erwin Schadel (1946–2016), a central yet little‐known figure of the so‐called Bamberg School, developed a distinctive triadic ontology that deserves attention within the contemporary renaissance of Trinitarian thought. Drawing on Augustinian and Comenian sources, Schadel articulates a relational grammar of being through the categories of in ...
Matteo Raffaelli
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Theologies of Mind: Eriugena and Pratyabhijñā Śaivism

Modern Theology, Volume 42, Issue 4, Page 927-952, October 2026.
Abstract Though Eriugena's affinities with several Hindu traditions are clear, this article offers to my knowledge the first detailed discussion of Eriugena's theology in relation to any Indic theological school, here, the nondualist Śaiva tradition known as the Pratyabhijñā (“Recognition”) lineage.
Matthew Z. Vale
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God-Perfecting Man: Theurgical Elements in the Mysticism of Muḥyī l-Dīn Ibn al-ʿArabī (560/1165–638/1240) and Their Historical Significance

Religions
The following article aims at highlighting the theurgical tendencies in the teachings of the great Andalusī Muslim mystic Muḥyī l-Dīn Ibn al-ʿArabī (560/1165–638/1240).
Michael Ebstein
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