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Warburg
Linda Selmin
The barefoot American. An unplublished text written
by Aby Warburg on Isadora Duncan
In 1903, Warburg watched a performance by Isadora Duncan.
A record of this incident has been found in a letter which
we present in this essay. Warburg's impression of the
classicising affectation of the American dancer is decidedly
negative. However, Warburg reveals, even in this document,
that his observation of the human body in movement and
its expressive possibilities is perceptive and detailed,
and suggests links with the formulation of the concept
of the "emotive formula" which precisely during
those years was beginning to take shape in his researches.
Guglielmo Bilancioni
Aby Warburg, Lord of the Labyrinth (on the Italian
Translation of Ernst Gombrich, Aby Warburg. An Intellectual
Bioghraphy)
Giulia Bordignon, Katia Mazzucco, Linda
Selmin
Bibliography on Warburghian studies (update)
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Mnemosyne Plates
Plate
B
From cosmos to man and back again
The human need to represent and relate to the cosmos is expressed
in the projection of images and influxes of the cosmos on man,
establishing a harmonious correspondence between their respective
systems. During the Renaissance the scheme of this harmonious
relationship is portrayed in geometrical and logical form (Leonardo
da Vinci), as well as magical and demonic.
Plate
C
Conquering the heavens: war and technology
The evolution of the image of Mars as an exemplum
of the representation of a cultural trajectory: from the anthropomorphic
representation of an astral divinity to the imperfect image
of the circular orbits of the planet within a system of magical
and harmonious relationships between Man and the Cosmos (Kepler),
to the present portrayals of the conquest (material and intellectual)
of the heavens.
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Galleries
Lorenzo Bonoldi
The Isabella D'este portrait gallery
The Isabella d'Este portrait gallery has been augmented by an
engraving from a work by Titian by Lucas Emil Vostermann, and
by a copy from a work by Titian now lost. In addition we signal
the whereabouts of a portrait sold at auction.
Claudia Sollacini
The Hebe gallery
The image of Hebe from ancient sources to allegorical portraits
of the C18th. Thirteen new images have been placed in their
respective captions, filling the gaps in the previous version.
The inclusion of an image of Hebe and Zeus from an Attic marble
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News
–The grace and inquietude of Botticelli and Filippino
Lippi in Florence
Botticelli and Flippino. Inquietude and grace in Florentine
painting during the Quattrocento, 11 March-11 July 2004,
Florence, Palazzo Strozzi
(Sara Agnoletto)
–Ancient à la page. Antonio Lombardo's
'camerino d'alabastro'
The Este in Ferrara, 14 March-13 June 2004, Ferrara,
Castello Estense
(Alberto Anselmi and Daniele Pisani)
–"Accepting and translating enough of the
past in order to adhere to the spirit of the drama"
The Master of Dionysus, Duilio Cambellotti and the Greek
theatre in Syracuse (1914-1948); 23 May 2004-9 January
2005, Museo e Centro studi INDA, Palazzo Greco, Corso Matteotti
29, Syracuse; catalogue Electa 2004
(Engramma eds.)
–Aby Warburg and the dialectics of the image
"autaut", monograph edition 321-322, May-August
2004
(Monica Centanni)
–Sing, Goddess, the Achilles of Hollywood
Troy, directed by Wolfgang Petersen, U.S.A. 2004
(Lorenzo Bonoldi)
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P&M
Lorenzo Bonoldi
Sirens and engines - the irresistible lure of the
classical tradition
The use of the episode of the lure of the Sirens in the Odyssey
in a publicity brochure for a car (with a Homeric promotional
gadget: a pair of ear-plugs). |
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engramma
