 Warburg
Giorgio Pasquali (1930), Mario Praz (1934)
Two important Italian contributions to the history of Aby Warburg and the transfer of the Warburg Institute to London
In October 1929, Aby Warburg died in Hamburg. A few months after the event, Giorgio Pasquali dedicated a 'memory' to the scholar, and published it in "Pegaso". Gertrud Bing would later describe it as amongst the most beautiful and intelligent tributes to Warburg.
In the first few months of 1933, Warburg's edition of Gesammelte Schriften was published by Teubner. Shortly after, following the rise to power of the National Socialist Party, and under 'pressure of political events' (as Gertrud Biing wrote), the Warburg Institute was transferred to London. In 1934, Mario Praz reviewed and commented on the exile to London of the valubale cultural Institution in the journal 'Pan'. | |  News
Exhibitions
–Gaspare Vanvitelli
Gaspare Vanvitelli e le origini del vedutismo, Venice, Museo Correr, 28 February - 18 May
Catalogue: Claudio Strinati, Fabio Benzi, Ludovica Trezzani, Laura Laureati, Wiliam L. Barchal, Ed.; Viviani Arte, 2002
(Giacomo Dalla Pietà)
– Greek choir
Through the looking glass: myths, reflections, rewritings - a personal exhibition of Octavia Monaco, Bologna, Associazione Culturale Hamelin, 28 April - 16 May
(Ilaria Tontardini)
Books
–Warburg in Ferrara
Aby Warburg e le metamorfosi degli antichi dèi, Marco Bertozzi Ed., Ferrara, Franco Cosimo Panini Editore, 2002
(Claudia Daniotti)
–Narcissus: stories of water and Nymphs, mirrors and tears
Maurizio Bettini, Ezio Pellizer, Il mito di Narciso. Immagini e racconti dalla Grecia ad oggi, Turin, Einaudi, 2003
(Federico Boschetti)
Events
–The new drama season staged in the Teatro Greco, Syracuse
The Persians, Eumenides By Aeschylus, directed by Antonio Calenda
Wasps by Aristophanes, directed by Renato Giordano
Teatro Greco, Syracuse, 16 May - 2 July
(Daniela Sacco) | |  P&M
The two faces of Lucia
(Lorenzo Bonoldi)
The figure of Lucia, the virgin martyr from Syracuse in the advertisements of two different fashionable photographers: for Erwin Olaf the cultual iconography of the Meditterranean, and for Jean Baptise Mondino that of the northern tradition. | | |  Plate 41a
Reading of Plate 41a of Aby Warburg's Mnemosyne: On Laocoon
Plate
(Katia Mazzucco, Ed.)
The Pathos of Grief. The Death of the Priest [cfr tav 6]
Leidenspathos. Tod des Priesters. [cf. Tafel 6]
Analytical readings
(by editorial committee of engramma)
Readings
–A Longing for Laocoon at the Mantuan court in light of Plate 41 of Aby Warburg's Mnemosyne Atlas
(Lorenzo Bonoldi)
–The original absentee: the Laocoon group in plate 41a of Aby Warburg's Mnemosyne Atlas
(Monica Centanni) | | |  Essay
Lorenzo Bonoldi, Monica Centanni, Luana Lovisetto
Venus volubilis/venusta Victoria
Deceptions, disguises, and denudiungs of the Aphrodite of Brescia
In the upper register of the plate discussed in this essay, the four phases of a bronze C3rd BC statue that originally represented Aphrodite looking at her herself in a shield (A), are sequentially juxtaposed.
With additions and subtractions of attributes, and perhaps through contaminations and influences from other typologies and via the modifaction of the gesture of her right hand, Aphrodite became in the C1st AD a "Victoria in clipeo scribens". And in this guise was placed in the Forum of Brescia by Vespasian (B).
The other images show the final two phases of this lengthy metamorphosis: the statue as it was found in the C19th and shown in Brescia, becoming a symbol of the Risorgimento in the city (C); and finally as it is today (D), stripped of all her attributes (shield/helmet and fake wings) that had characterised her during her history.
The plate depicts the dynamics of this metamorphisis from the C3rd BC to late Imperial Rome, graphically. | |
