Aesthetic Themes in Pagan and Christian Neoplatonism

Whilst aesthetics as a discipline did not exist before the modern age, ancient philosophers give many insights about beauty and art. In Late Antiquity Plotinus confronted the problem of beauty and the value of the arts. Plotinus'' reflections have an important role in the development of the concept of the value of artistic imagination during the Renaissance and the Romantic era, but he also influe...