NYMPHE (WIND). DER RAUM ZWISCHEN MOTIV UND AFFEKT IN DER FRUEHEN NEUZEIT (ZUGLEICH EIN BEITRAG ZUR ABY WARBURG-FORSCHUNG)

• Authors: Barbara Baert

Title variants

EN

Nymph (Wind). The space between a motif and an emotion in the early modern period (at the same time a contribution to the Warburgian research)

• Languages of publication: DE

Abstracts

EN

The presence and importance of the nymph in the late medieval and early modern art goes beyond the fashionable adaptation of a classicizing motif. None less than Aby Warburg (1866 – 1929) was the one who developed a passion for the godly girl, wandering to the bucolic springs and caves, whose name etymologically refers to a "bride". However, it isn't the iconographic afterlife of the nymph that is addresses by this study, but the question of her visual identity in the early humanism. This question opens a discourse on a movement and wind in visual media, on the effect of the nymph on the viewer and on the (self-) reflection of the visual arts, especially painting.

Keywords

EN

MYTHOLOGY; NYMPH; MEDIEVAL ART; MODERN ART; PAINTING; ICONOGRAPHY; WARBURG ABY

• Publisher: Institute of History of Art, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: ARS
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 46
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 16 -42

Contributors

author

Barbara Baert

• Faculty of Arts, University Leuven, Blijde Inkomststraat 21/Postbus 3313, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium