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Comparative religion --- Iconography --- History of civilization --- mythology [literary genre] --- paganism
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catalogues raisonnés --- mythology [literary genre] --- book review --- Rubens, Peter Paul
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Painting --- mythology [literary genre] --- eroticism --- Italian Renaissance-Baroque styles --- Io [Mythological character] --- Correggio, Antonio Allegri
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German literature --- History of civilization --- mythology [literary genre] --- literary history --- cultuurgeschiedenis --- Janus [Mythological character]
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Le livre imprimé est le lieu privilégié pour comprendre comment s’est construit un nouveau regard sur l’Antiquité à la suite des guerres de Religion, de la mise en place de la censure des images ainsi que de la centralisation du pouvoir politique. Or, le nom de celles et ceux qui en ont déterminé la forme propre – imprimeurs, libraires, graveurs, correcteurs – ne figurent pas toujours en page de titre. Ils ont pourtant traduit, modifié et parfois déplacé des textes et des images pour répondre aux attentes d’un public friand de nouveautés. La présente enquête part d’un livre recomposé à partir d’un texte de Natale Conti et des illustrations de Vincenzo Cartari. Bricolé à la hâte dans une officine lyonnaise au début du xviie siècle, il a connu une fortune extraordinaire. Ses sources et sa postérité sont analysées à travers des figures monstrueuses entre la fable, la caricature religieuse, les sciences naturelles et la littérature de voyage, de l’Hécate à trois têtes aux démons dotés de seins pendants jusqu’aux sorcières du Brésil.
Book history --- Comparative religion --- Thematology --- mythology [literary genre] --- allegories [literary works] --- book history --- Cartari, Vicenzo --- Conti, Natale
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Gli abbondanti riferimenti pittorici a divinità e testi antichi di Giulio Romano a Palazzo Te furono la palestra ideale per l'istruito Pieter Paul Rubens. L'intellettuale fiammingo, durante gli anni della sua formazione culturale, trova nelle sale di Palazzo Te il luogo perfetto per immergersi nei sogni degli antichi. Il volume, pubblicato in occasione dell'omonima mostra in programma dal 7 ottobre 2003 al 7 gennaio 2024, è quello di creare per la prima volta una corrispondenza tra le opere di Rubens e i motivi decorativi e iconografici del palazzo, progettato da Giulio Romano. Il percorso dimostra quanto le suggestioni rinascimentali, elaborate da Rubens durante gli anni italiani e mantovani, si siano evolute trovando spazio nella pittura della sua maturità̀. Le opere a confronto sono state selezionate proprio perché instaurano un dialogo con i miti e con l'interpretazione di Giulio Romano che trasmise al pittore di Anversa il fascino per il Rinascimento e per la favola mitologica. È proprio a Palazzo Te che avviene la conversione di Rubens da pittore fiammingo ad artista italiano ed europeo. Nel corso del viaggio in Italia elabora infatti un linguaggio universale che sarebbe diventato il suo lasciapassare per tutte le corti d'Europa.
Painting --- influence --- mythology [literary genre] --- Mantua, Palazzo del Te --- Nederlandse kunstenaars in Italië --- Rubens, Peter Paul --- Romano, Giulio --- Italy
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"Two allegorical ancient Greek stories about a young hero's career- defining choice are shown in this book to have later been appropriated to radically differing effects. E.g. a male's choice between female personifications can morph into a female's choice between the same, or between various male personifications. Never before have so many instances of this process from art, literature, music, even landscape gardening, been culled. Illustrations, mainly colour, many brought into this context for the first time, are conveniently incorporated into the text, thus mimetically mirroring a central theme of the book, the process of 'visualising the verbal, verbalising the visual.'"
Iconography --- Thematology --- mythology [literary genre] --- receptiegeschiedenis --- oordeel van Paris --- Paris [Mythological character] --- Heracles [Mythological character] --- Heroes in literature --- Heroes in art --- Choice (Psychology) in literature --- Greek literature --- Classical literature --- Art and mythology --- Heracles - (Greek mythological character) --- Paris - (Mythological character)
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