Artistic Platonism

The treatise of Federico Zuccari, an Italian painter, that has written the Idea of painters, sculptors and architects and this treatise was edited at 1607, is one example about Catholic Reform but with some think from Platoon; this is evident in some step when author says: “I say that drawing isn’t mater, isn’t substance, but it is form, and idea”, this first step is necessary to understand that Zuccari uses that he has perceived he written about inner driving of angel and he saying about creation of word, he has synthetized steps of Genesis, God has depicted and worked everything, but he has worked other word in head of angel, with everything; this is a typical concept of Platonic philosophy, everything is present in head of human gender, and through time and experience everything resurfaces to head, but just we have in head.  Zuccari said again: “God very accomplished cause so that they were perfect both regard nature and to understand and to work and he worked other word that was thinkable to angels”, this is concept is pure Platonism; in fact in Platonism philosophy this word is material projection from ideas word, but now angels look this word because they can look this word alone. Zuccari is continuing with his Platonism says: “Since we know very much thing although different forms and they are in our head, although if we will know something we must work an image a drawing, necessary for to become it understandable, and we use these drawing”. This concept is philosophical that we can call hyperuranium is told by Platoon in two book, this is Republic and Fedrus; that Zuccari could have known trough nearness to Jesuitical order, then very intellectual men in Catholic order; Zuccari decorated a chapel in the church of Jesuitical order in Rome, and then he could have known Platoon trough some Jesuitical theologian. More he attended also Vatican cathedral for a commission, then he could has been informed regard to Platoon and his philosophical think.

Alessandro Lusana