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Rocks And Tears - Niobe'S Fate And The Dynamics Of Form. Lecture On The Occasion Of The Aby-Warburg-Stiftungsprofessur 2023

by B Baert

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 As holder of the Aby-Warburg-Stiftungsprofessur (2023) Barbara Baert delivered this public lecture at the Warburg-Haus in Hamburg on May 9th 2023. Taking her lead, amongst others, from Ovid's Metamorphoses and Warburg's Bilderatlas, she elaborated on the cluster of motifs around the figure of Niobe - hybris, lamentatio, the underworld - and on the 'weeping rock' as a paradigm of both petrification and fluidity, as an expression of das erstarrte Leben.
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Bruegel, Soldiers, And Kings

by L Silver

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 Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525-1569) consistently represented soldiers as a social threat in both biblical subjects (of Old Testament kings as well as Gospel themes) and secular images in the paintings and prints that span his career. Yet in a small grisaille panel (1568; New York, Frick Collection), Bruegel turns to military imagery from German prints to celebrate the summons to battle of army forces. The only explanation for his late reversal, reinforced by the picture's date, is that the painter was responding supportively to the onset of the Dutch Revolt against Spanish political and religious oppression. Larry Silver is Farquhar Professor of Art History, emeritus, at the University of Pennsylvania. A specialist in painting and graphics of the early modern Low Countries and Germany, he has previously published numerous studies on Bruegel, Bosch, and other artists discussed here.
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Inner Affinity - Ovid, Titian, Philip Of Spain

by J-F Corpataux

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 The title of this little book is inspired by Erwin Panofsky''s remarks on the "inner affinity" between Ovid and Titian. But this inner affinity between the Latin poet and the Venetian painter also extends to Philip of Spain, for whom Titian painted the famous cycle of canvases that he referred to in his letters as the "Poesie". To explore this kinship of spirit among the poet, the painter, and the king, this study examines the dynastic fecundity that results from the effects of works of art on the imagination, the soul and the body.
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Three Ladies, Three Medals

by M. Centanni

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 Cecilia Gonzaga as Diana; Isabella d''Este as Nemesis; Elisabetta Gonzaga as Danae. The "all''antica" medal inspired by Roman imperial coins is a Renaissance invention, a new genre that originates from Pisanello''s exquisite art, which focuses on the personal qualities and virtues of the individual represented, thereby enhancing them - on the obverse in form of portrait, on the reverse in allegorical guise. On Renaissance medals not only do we find faces and war ventures of Princes, Dukes, and leaders of the time. We also see - unexpectedly - portraits of brilliant, beautiful young women, educated in Classics, destined to become the protagonists of Italian courts in the fifteenth century.
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Knife - Temporal Ruptures In Revelation And Transformation

by L Tack

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 The Greek sculptor Lysippos of Sicyon (fourth century BCE) represented Kairos carrying a razor in his left hand. According to the epigram dedicated to this statue by Posidippus of Pella (mid-third-century BCE), the Greek divinity of the opportune moment is said to move with a swiftness that is sharper than any razor''s edge. Why does Kairos carry a razor in his hand? And how does the knife relate to opportunity and temporality? This book embarks on a narrative detour to answer these questions. Stories of revelation and transformation are anatomised to discover the moments of the knife pulsating underneath the surface. The sword grasped at the right moment by the Biblical heroine Judith, Abraham''s sacrificial knife, the eucharistic knife from the Castello Sforzesco in Milan, Psyche''s razor, the surgeon''s scalpel, or the apocalyptic double-edged sword each figure as multifaceted imaginations of these kairotic moments. Under the skin of this book lives the question raised by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781) in his Laokoon oder uber die Grenzen der Mahlerey und Poesie (1766). Who is best suited to capture the right moment, the painter, or the poet? At the heart of it all is the disruption of time itself. The moment of the knife is the time of the wound in time. Sudden, sharp, and unexpected this moment pierces deep into the human experience, stirring the soul with a swiftness beyond imagination.
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Right Moment - Essays Offered To Barbara Baert, Laureate Of The 2016 Francqui Prize In Human Sciences, On The Occasion Of The Celebratory Symposium At The Francqui F

by Peeters Publishers

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 The essays collected in this volume explore how and by what means, from antiquity to the present day, the notion of ''the right moment'' has been defined, visualized, and experienced. The authors approach the subject from a range of disciplines and often work at the intersection of several of them, including the history of art and architecture, philosophy and art theory, classics and comparative literature, the history of religion and theology, and anthropology. In addition to scholarly exposes, the book contains a number of personal musings and artistic reflections on ''the right moment'' in various forms and kinds of imagination - visual, literary, and philosophical. The Right Moment originates in a festive symposium held at the Francqui Foundation in Brussels on 18 and 19 October 2018 in honour of Barbara Baert, Laureate of the 2016 Francqui Prize in Human Sciences. "The statue of ... lives," Barbara Baert wrote, "and it lets its powers gently glow to the surface for those who recognize him. But for those who miss him, a sharp and bitter trail remains." A celebratory publication with contributions by Inigo Bocken, Angelos Chaniotis, James Clifton, Johan De Groef, Ralph Dekoninck, Greti Dinkova-Bruun, Pierre-Antoine Fabre, Catherine Harper, Stephanie Heremans, Elisabeth Hsu, Mateusz Kapustka, Bianca Kuhnel, Han Lamers, W.J.T. Mitchell, Herman Parret, Miri Rubin, Hedwig Schwall, Davide Stimilli, Victor Stoichita, Stephane Symons, Laura Tack, Philippe Van Cauteren, Koenraad Van Cleempoel, Anne van Herreweghen, Pierre Van Moerbeke, Bart Verschaffel, and Marina Vicelja-Matijasic.
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Petrifying Gazes - Danae And The Uncanny Space

by B Baert

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 Of all the ancient myths where rain plays an important role, the impregnation of Danae by Zeus through a golden rain is perhaps the one most often depicted in art. This essay is dedicated to the artistic afterlife of the myth, with special focus on the painting of Danae (1527) by Jan Gossaert van Mabuse (1478-1532). Gossaert''s Danae is a sophisticated articulation of outer and inner discourse: the hard, dry, background, with its eclectic architecture, in contrast with the sweltering, moist, foreground with the figure''s naked body. This essay develops Gossaert''s complex phantasmata surrounding architecture, decoration, and the female body in three spaces: the intimate space of impregnation, the psychosomatic space, and, third, the petrifying space of Medusa. Barbara Baert writes: "Danae is the living emanation of painting as the uttermost exhibitionistic medium. Her unveiled skin fragile exposed in the midst of an overwhelming symphonic outburst of details, facades, windows. Danae: martyr of glossy materials - marble and flesh - unable to disappear in her own skin; held hostage within a medium of walls. Her only desire is to disappear in the ultimate thin membrane, to vaporize beyond the harsh brocks and, then, at the very end, leave the medium of textile too. There were threads become drippings, lines become tears."
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Signed 'Pan' - Erwin Panofsky''S (1892-1968) ''The History Of Art As A Humanistic Discipline'' (Princeton, 1938)

by B. Baert

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 In 1935 Erwin Panofsky (1892-1968) was appointed the first ''permanent member'' of the School of Humanistic Studies (now the School of Historical Studies) at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. The famous institute was founded by the American educator Abraham Flexner (1866-1959). This essay contributes to the content and context of Panofsky''s important lecture "The History of Art as a Humanistic Discipline" from1938. The publication of that lecture functioned as a manifesto written by an intellectual emigre in a new American context. It is thanks to Panofsky that the locus classicus of iconography, as Irving Lavin (1927-2019) described the Institute for Advanced Study, received the compelling arguments for an "art history that deserves to be counted among the humanities." A close reading of the text and an analysis of its impact can still teach us something about the origins and development of the Art Historical field and Iconological Studies today.
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Weeping Rock - Revisiting Niobe Through ''Paragone'', ''Pathosformel'' And Petrification

by B Baert

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 Publius Ovid (43 BC-17/18 AD) describes in his Metamorphoses Niobe''s transformation into a weeping rock. Niobe''s transformation incorporates the form and matter of the medium of sculpture. According to the humanist paragone debate, painting and sculpture struggle to be the medium with the highest qualities of virtuosity. Aby Warburg (1866-1929) refers to the Niobe motif''s Nachleben in his Tafel 5: Beraubte Mutter. (Niobe, Flucht und Schrecken). This displays the images of both the bereaved mother (Niobe) and the murderous mother (Medea). The montage also introduces the theme of the descent to the underworld. It becomes clear how the cluster of motifs around the figure of Niobe - hybris, lamentatio and the chthonic substrate - functions as a direct entry to a bipolar hermeneutics of the visual medium: the ''historical psychology of human expression'' that navigates between Apollo and Dionysus. The ''weeping rock'' that according to legend still stands on Mount Sipylus in Turkey, draws upon deeper anthropological patterns. Petrification indicates inertia, frigidity and a Medusan psychosis of fear. In nature, stones and rocks have a ''slumbering insistence'' that can be captivating. Stones are after all visible but impenetrable, they index an irrevocable absence in their presence, and ''have abode'' in an otherworldly region of utter blindness and silence. From a psychoanalytical perspective, Niobe''s petrifaction symbolises the straitening of her life and the loss of anima within a culture divorced from authentic feeling, nature, and instinct. Here Niobe meets Echo.
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Fortune Of Gertrud Bing (1892-1964) - A Fragmented Memoir Of A Phantomlike Muse

by L Tack

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 Sie stand anderen zur Seite und wuate sie zu inspirieren. It is clear that Ernst H. Gombrich saw Gertrud Bing (1892-1964) as the muse in the circle of scholars around Aby M. Warburg (1866-1929). Others have compared her to the figure of the nymph, which was essential to Warburg''s thought. Indeed, with Warburg''s fascination for the ninfa fiorentina, a picturing of ''the feminine'' enters into the centre of his thinking. However, Warburg almost never voiced opinions about the role of gender in the structure of society. Nor does it seem that he actually admitted women to his intellectual universe. Gertrud Bing, it turns out, was the rare exception. Who was Gertrud Bing and what was her personal contribution to Warburg''s scientific project? This essay intends to map the agency of Gertrud Bing, in a way that she herself would have probably preferred. According to her, the ideal biography ought to merge the personal with the intellectual, since, what one experiences as a human being will also find its way into the academic oeuvre one leaves behind.
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Fragments

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 Fragments presents one hundred and ten entries - from Acheiropoieton to Zwischenraum - that explore new insights and observations for research and criticism in art history, iconology and cultural anthropology. It offers a unique anthology of Barbara Baert''s oeuvre. Each lemma bears the stamp of the author''s personality and work, sometimes in the form of an encompassing explanation, sometimes a brief experimental musing, illustratied by iconic artefacts. This extraordinary glossary leverages the power of interdisciplinary research in art and human sciences, and invites the reader to consider the beauty of these disciplines by embracing multiple genres. Fragments is Barbara Baert''s response to her being awarded the Belgian Francqui Prize Human Sciences 2016. This celebration book within the series Studies in Iconology is a token of gratitude and a sign of encouragement towards the desire of a deeper understanding of our artistic environments.
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Afterlife Of Antiquity - Anton Springer (1825-1891) On The Classical Tradition

by H Lamers

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 This essay deals with the early history of the notion of an ''afterlife of antiquity'' as a metaphor for thinking about antiquity''s continued presence in later periods. Nachleben der Antike is often associated with Aby Warburg and Renaissance art but was first applied to the classical tradition of the Middle Ages by the Czech-German historian Anton Heinrich Springer (1825-1891). His provocative essay on the subject, first published in 1862, is a very early attempt to emancipate the classical tradition from strait-laced classicism and to see it as a historical problem. Springer''s approach anticipated some important later trends in understanding antiquity''s continued presence and significance. Afterlife of Antiquity returns something of the original resonance to Springer''s idea and sheds light on its significance in the history of scholarship. Recognizing some of the theoretical tensions inherent in Springer''s discussion, the current work examines how the notion of an afterlife of antiquity was embedded in the author''s wider interest in artistic tradition and how he used it as a polemical concept targeting both anti-classicizing Romanticist and traditional humanist views of medieval culture. This issue of Studies in Iconology also includes the first English translation of Springer''s Das Nachleben der Antike im Mittelalter, a largely forgotten classic of humanities scholarship, read and admired by Aby Warburg and Erwin Panofsky.
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What About Enthusiasm? A Rehabilitation - Pentecost, Pygmalion, ''Pathosformel''

by B. Baert

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 The word enthusiasm is derived from the Greek enthousiasmos and means being captivated by a god. Even today, we use ''enthusiasm'' to describe a special energy that can suddenly overwhelm us: an emotional affect that holds the glow for the subject within oneself, and which radiates inspiration out to an audience. Yet, through the ages, the concept has not always carried with it the positive connotations it had in ancient Greece. Despite a few flickers on the cultural historical time line, enthusiasm has mostly been marginalised in modern Western philosophy: as an excessive urge or as a harmful exaggeration of emotions. In this essay, I work towards a rehabilitation of inspiration within intellectual thought. Is enthousiasmos the subject of any iconographic traditions? Is enthousiasmos also an aesthetic concept? And can enthousiasmos be part of an epistemology?

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