Neoplatonism at the Accademia di San Luca in Rome

This essay examines the role that Neoplatonic philosophy played in the artistic theory of the Accademia di San Luca in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Rome, and the subsequent influence on art and architecture. Keywords: Neoplatonism, Accademia di San Luca, Rome, disegno, Federico Zuccari, Plato (Republic), Aristotle (Metaphysics), Plotinus (Enneads), Thomas Aquinas (Summa Theologica), Marsilio Ficino (De amore, Theologia Platonica), Pietro da Cortona (Santi Luca e Martina), Carlo Maderno (St. Peter’s), Francesco Borromini (San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane), Giulio Romano (Palazzo del Tè), Michelangelo (Porta Pia), Florence, Platonic Academy, Gian Paolo Lomazzo, disegno interno, disegno esterno, concinnita