From Mythos to Logos: Andrea Palladio, Freemasonry, and the Triumph of Minerva (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History)

Author: Coughlin, Michael Trevor

Brand: Brill

Number Of Pages: 334

EAN: 9789004382121

Release Date: 01-05-2019

Package Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.4 x 0.7 inches

Languages: English

Binding: hardcover

Details: From Mythos to Logos: Andrea Palladio, Freemasonry and the Triumph of Minerva explores how myth was used to encode architecture and frescoed interiors with insights that promote peace, freedom and kindness as ways of being in the world. The author, Michael Trevor Coughlin argues that Freemasonry took root in the Italian city of Vicenza as early as 1546, and that its precepts, conveyed through the intersection of myth and philosophy, were disseminated widely in buildings and images, as well as texts, prescribing tolerance and an understanding of the divine that exists in each and everyone.