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Aesthetics: Ficino’s quick and easy Italian humanist guide to facial proportion

by Kurt Knecht | Jan 7, 2012 | Ficino, kurt knecht, Uncategorized

I have been re-reading some of Marsilio Ficino’s commentary on Plato’s Symposium. Ficino was writing in 1475 at the beginning of the Italian Renaissance. He is basically continuing the Platonic thought in the tradition of Plotinus. Beauty and Love are very...

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