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

Michael T. Coughlin theorizes the possibility of interpreting art and architectural form as an index for Logos in Early Modern Italy, while simultaneously proposing a theory about the origin of Freemasonry from a historical perspective. ‎Contents......Page 6 ‎Preface......Page 8 ‎Acknowledgements......Page 9 ‎Figures......Page 11 ‎Introduction......Page 18 ‎1. Logos and Solomon’s Temple......Page 20 ‎2. Methodology......Page 26 ‎3. Historical Context......Page 33 ‎4. Summary......Page 35 ‎Chapter 1. Minerva and the Cosmology of Prudence in Palladio’s Palazzo Thiene......Page 38 ‎1. Minerva and the Duality of Prudence......Page 41 ‎2. The Palazzo Thiene......Page 51 ‎3. Prudence and Plato’s Pilot of the Soul......Page 55 ‎4. Church Reform and the Political Proclivities of the Vicentine Nobility......Page 60 ‎5. The Question of Free Will and the Convenience of Art’s Ambiguity......Page 69 ‎6. Prudence and Minerva’s Cosmology......Page 78 ‎7. The Palazzo Thiene and the Origins of Freemasonry......Page 86 ‎Chapter 2. Daniele Barbaro, Prudence and Time: Towards a Logos of Architecture at the Villa Barbaro at Maser......Page 92 ‎1. Astronomy and the Villa Barbaro at Maser......Page 97 ‎2. Draco and Plato’s Pilot of the Soul......Page 105 ‎3. The Ethics of Movement in Barbaro’s Della eloquenza......Page 108 ‎4. The Accademia degli Infiammati: Prudence, Minerva, and the Pathway to God......Page 112 ‎5. Prudence, Minerva and the Ethics of Time......Page 117 ‎6. Gnomonics and the Logos of Space and Time......Page 122 ‎7. Linear-Perspective and Problems of Coercion......Page 134 ‎8. Opticos Logos......Page 145 ‎9. Barbaro, Dürer and the Lutheran Link to Freemasonry......Page 151 ‎Chapter 3. The Temporality of Logos: Time and the Machina del Mondo in Palladio’s La Rotonda......Page 157 ‎1. Time and the Machina del Mondo......Page 166 ‎2. Re-reading the Frontispiece of the Quattro libri......Page 170 ‎3. Trissino’s Italia Liberata dai Goti......Page 175 ‎4. Unity and Eternity in the Academies......Page 184 ‎5. The Cosmology of Logos......Page 192 ‎6. Ancient Precedents......Page 197 ‎7. La Rotonda, Minerva and Divine Logos......Page 202 ‎Chapter 4. Duelling Tricipitia: Capturing the Multivalence of Prudence and Time in Titian’s Allegory of Prudence......Page 216 ‎1. The Doubling Effect in Titian’s Allegory of Prudence......Page 221 ‎2. Prudence, Harmony and the Healthy Soul......Page 230 ‎3. Logos and Camillo’s L’idea del teatro......Page 235 ‎4. The Ontology of Prudence and Time......Page 241 ‎Chapter 5. Freemasonry and the Art of Memory: the Palazzo del Te and the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili as Model......Page 247 ‎1. The Transmigration of the Soul......Page 249 ‎2. The Palazzo del Te and the Art of Memory......Page 262 ‎3. The Art of Memory in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili......Page 272 ‎Conclusion......Page 296 ‎Appendix......Page 316 ‎Bibliography......Page 317 ‎Index......Page 338 "In his new book From Mythos to Logos : Andrea Palladio, Freemasonry and the Triumph of Minerva, Michael Trevor Coughlin provides an interpretive lens to explore how myth was used to encode sixteenth-century Italian works of architecture and their frescoed interiors with logos--providing powerful insights that promote a way of being in a world in which peace and freedom are the greatest hallmarks of society. Leaning heavily on the intersection between myth and philosophy, Coughlin convincingly argues Freemasonry began in the Italian city of Vicenza in 1546, offering fresh insight into the origin of Freemasonry, one of the most powerful and longstanding organizations in the world--one in the midst of a popularity and membership boom that is unprecedented"-- Provided by publisher 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.