Warburg Institute Colloquia 14
Images of the Pagan Gods. Papers of a Conference in Memory of Jean Seznec
Sous la direction de Rembrandt Duits & François Quiviger
Londres - Turin : The Warburg Institute - Nino Aragno Editore, coll. "Warburg Institute Colloquia", 2010, 450 p.
- EAN : 9780854811441
- ISSN 1352-9986
- £50.00
Jean Seznec's La survivance des dieux antiques was first published at the Warburg Institute in 1940 and translated into English as The Survival of the Pagan Gods in 1953 and is now available online . It is a classic survey of the afterlife of the deities of classical Antiquity in art and literature during the Middle Ages and Renaissance. This volume of essays is the product of a conference held at the Warburg Institute in 2004, in collaboration with the French research group Polymnia. It presents the current state of scholarship regarding a number of the themes set out by Seznec, covering areas from medieval astronomy to sixteenth-century allegory, and charting the course of the long-term iconographical traditions of mythological figures as well as discussing individual transformations of classical deities at specific moments in time. As in Seznec's book, the late-medieval and Renaissance mythographical handbooks which were the principal sources of knowledge about classical mythology for contemporary artists form an over-arching topic.
The principal sources refered by Seznec and the contributors to the volume have been digitized and are available freely from the Warburg Institute web site. Follow this link for more
I INTRODUCTORY ESSAYS
Elizabeth Sears
Seznec, Saxl and La Survivance des dieux antiques
Rembrandt Duits
The Waning of the Renaissance
François Quiviger
Online Mythologies
II TRADITIONS
Kristen Lippincott
The Problem with Being a Minor Deity: The Story of Eridanus
Rembrandt Duits
The Survival of the Pagan Sky: Illustrated Constellation Cycles in Manuscripts
Dieter Blume
Michael Scot, Giotto and the Construction of New Images of the Planets
Sabrina Vervacke
Autour des ‘dieux d'Albricus' et de leur usage
Gerlinde Huber-Rebenich
A Lecture with Consequences: Tracing a Trecento Commentary on the Metamorphoses
Anne Rolet
Les Métamorphoses d'Hermès/Mercure dans les Symbolicae Quaestiones d'Achille Bocchi (1555)
Stéphane Rolet
La Représentation des dieux dans les Hieroglyphica de Pierio Valeriano (1556)
III FORMS
Ezio Pellizer
L'Anthropomorphisme des dieux dans la Grèce antique
Jacqueline Fabre-Serris
Figures romaines de Dionysos à la fin du Ier siècle av. J.-C.
Ruth Webb
Living Statues: the Presence of the Gods on the Late Antique Stage
Philippe Morel
Le Règne de Pan de Signorelli
Sara Mamone
Les Nuées de l'Olympe à la scène: les dieux au service de l'Église et du prince dans le spectacle florentin de la renaissance
IV THE SCIENCE OF MYTHOLOGY
Françoise Graziani
Les Dieux en images: représenter, décrire, interpréter à la renaissance
V THE INFLUENCE OF THE MANUALS
Elizabeth McGrath
Artists and Mythographic Handbooks: Some Evidence of Use and Ownership
Index
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