Integration of Renaissance Arts and Hermeticism: Artful Tarot and Astrology

Abstract

It has long been recognized that Renaissance arts can interact with some Occultism concepts, as many artists during the Renaissance could also be alchemists and mystics. Many studies based on Western Occultism nowadays are trying to explore the relationship between ethos during the Renaissance and concepts in Hermeticism, which is one of the streams of occultism. The author believed that the ethos and the concepts can be seen in some artworks during Renaissance. Consequently, this paper focuses on the relationship between Renaissance arts and Hermeticism. To demonstrate how Hermeticism impact the Renaissance arts and how Renaissance in turn developed Hermeticism. This paper applies a case study and mainly analyzes two artworks by Albrecht Dürer. The result shows that many Renaissance arts manifested Hermeticism and the impact of humanism during the Renaissance can be found in Modern Hermeticism. This paper is of great significance in the occultism study combined with art history.