neo-Platonic
Adjective
Meaning
neo-Platonic (comparative more neo-Platonic, superlative most neo-Platonic)
Alternative form of Neoplatonic.
Neo-Platonic (comparative more Neo-Platonic, superlative most Neo-Platonic)
Alternative form of Neoplatonic.
Examples
C. Clément, Michelangelo, p. 9 From 1490 to 1492, Michelangelo attended the Humanist academy that the Medici had founded along Neo-Platonic lines.
Their theology has a Neo-Platonic view about how God interacts with the world through emanations and is similar to some gnostic and other esoteric sects.
In this case, the Neo-Platonic reading of Plato would be, at least in this central area, historically justified.
One writer, the "Anonimo" Gaddiano, claims that in 1480 Leonardo was living with the Medici and working in the Garden of the Piazza San Marco in Florence, a Neo-Platonic academy of artists, poets and philosophers that the Medici had established.