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Oculi! Danaë and the Uncanny Space KU Leuven
Afterlife Studies and the Occasio Grisaille in Mantua (School of Mantegna, 1495-1510) KU Leuven
This essay features a grisaille fresco depicting the Kairos/Occasio motif. A female figure with hair in front of her face and a bald crown moves with winged feet on top of a globe. Her clothing billows dynamically in the wind. She is a contrast to the woman with headgear, who has been placed on a rectangular pedestal and is keeping a young man from chasing the winged woman. He stretches out his arms to her in vain. The iconography of this ...
Pygmalion and Creative Enthusiasm KU Leuven
In this article I examine the concept of enthusiasm through the lens of Publius Ovidius’ (43 BC-17 AD) myth of Pygmalion, where ‘inspiration’ and the ‘god within’ are fundamentally thematised. Humanism and the Enlightenment see the connection between Pygmalion and enthusiasm as a captivating aesthetic paradigm. During the Renaissance, the concept of enthusiasm attaches itself to the paragone: the competition between painting and sculpting as art ...