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Surviving fragments of information about Pythagoras (born ca. 570 BCE) gave rise to a growing set of legends about this famous sage and his followers, whose reputations throughout Antiquity and the Middle Ages have never before been studied systematically. This book is the first to examine the unified concepts of harmony, proportion, form, and order that were attributed to Pythagoras in the millennium after his death and the important developments to which they led in art, architecture, mathematics, astronomy, music, medicine, morals, religion, law, alchemy, and the occult sciences.
In this profusely illustrated book, Christiane L. Joost-Gaugier sets out the panorama of Pythagoras's influence and that of Christian and Jewish thinkers who followed his ideas in the Greek, Roman, early Christian, and medieval worlds. In illuminating this tradition of thought, Joost-Gaugier shows how the influence of Pythagoreanism was far broader than is usually realized, and that it affected the development of ancient and medieval art and architecture from Greek and Roman temples to Gothic cathedrals.
Joost-Gaugier demonstrates that Pythagoreanism-centered on the dim memory of a single person that endured for centuries and grew ever-greater-inspired a new language for artists and architects, enabling them to be "modern."
Author Bio: Christiane L. Joost-Gaugier is a distinguished independent scholar. She is the author of Raphael's Stanza della Segnatura: Meaning and Invention and Jacopo Bellini: Selected Drawings and her work in the history of art and the history of ideas has been published extensively in international journals and conference proceedings.
"A book of this magnitude on Pythagoras and the impact of his thought on Western art has never been done and is long overdue. Christiane L. Joost-Gaugier offers a comprehensive survey of the biographical fragments, legends, and myths around the life of Pythagoras and impressively compiles early interpretations of Pythagorean philosophy and the web of influence Pythagoreanism has had on Western philosophy, culture, science, and art. Well written and useful to many disciplines, Measuring Heaven is an invaluable resource."
—Arielle Saiber, Bowdoin College
"Christiane L. Joost-Gaugier's book is a much-needed corrective for our inadequate understanding of this great, much-forgotten, much-misprised thinker. Her lucid, deeply learned linkage of Pythagoreanism to ancient and medieval art is particularly welcome."
—George L. Hersey, Emeritus Professor of Art History, Yale University
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reviewed Measuring Heaven: Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism in Art and Architecture on August 25, 2020
Measuring Heaven: Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism in Art and Architecture
An engaging read that traces the history of the perception of one of the most enigmatic, yet at the same time most influential, figures of antiquity, joost-gaugier writes an engaging study that is both historiography and art history. pythagoras is here presented both as socrates and christ, a mystical figure who left no writings and yet left an indelible mark on history as one who communicated with the heavens. indeed, joost-gaugier goes further and tries to argue for the influence of pythagoras on the conception of both, citing plato and early christians as if not themselves early (neo?)pythagoreans then indubitably influenced by his thought.
that pythagoras is influential is unarguable. his impact on philosophy, and thus the course of knowledge in general, is far-reaching. joost-gaugier makes a slim book feel doubly impactful with her comprehensive sources, her extensive bibliography, and a tone that is at all times concise, never boring, and endlessly informative.
i've learned a lot in the course of reading this book. some arguments may be easily accepted than others, but this all adds to the rather alluring mystique of pythagoras as we know him. i say as we know him because joost-gaugier makes it explicitly clear in her introduction that she would rather trace how he was perceived throughout the ages. this is reasonable: considering the lack of primary sources, we might never get around to making a biography of the man, and so a historiography would have to suffice.
in summation, this is a rather informative read and i very much recommend it to anyone who wishes to learn more about pythagoras, the history of philosophy, or the history of art in general.
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