The figure of the nymph in early modern culture / edited by Karl A .E. Enenkel, Anita Traninger.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Enenkel, K. A. E., editor.

Traninger, Anita, editor.

Series:

Intersections 54.

Intersections : interdisciplinary studies in early modern culture, 1568-1181 ; Volume 54

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nymphs (Greek deities).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (492 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]

Summary:

Throughout the early modern period, the nymph remained a powerful figure that inspired and informed the cultural imagination in many different ways. Far from being merely a symbol of the classical legacy, the nymph was invested with a surprisingly broad range of meanings. Working on the basis of these assumptions, and thus challenging Aby Warburg’s famous reflections on the nympha that both portrayed her as cultural archetype and reduced her to a marginal figure, the contributions in this volume seek to uncover the multifarious roles played by nymphs in literature, drama, music, the visual arts, garden architecture, and indeed intellectual culture tout court, and thereby explore the true significance of this well-known figure for the early modern age. Contributors: Barbara Baert, Mira Becker-Sawatzky, Agata Anna Chrzanowska, Karl Enenkel, Wolfgang Fuhrmann, Michaela Kaufmann, Andreas Keller, Eva-Bettina Krems, Damaris Leimgruber, Tobias Leuker, Christian Peters, Christoph Pieper, Bernd Roling, and Anita Traninger.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright page

Acknowledgements

Notes on the Editors

Notes on the Contributors

List of Illustrations

Introduction: The Figure of the Nymph in Early Modern Culture / Anita Traninger and Karl A.E. Enenkel

Nymphs between the Visual Arts and Literature

Pleasures of the Imagination: Narrating the Nymph, from Boccaccio to Lope De Vega / Anita Traninger

Salmacis, Hermaphrodite, and the Inversion of Gender: Allegorical Interpretations and Pictorial Representations of an Ovidian Myth, circa 1300–1770 / Karl Enenkel

The Sleeping Nymph Revisited: Ekphrasis, Genius Loci and Silence / Barbara Baert

‘Who, Then, is the “Nympha”?’ An Iconographic Analysis of the Figure of the Maid in the Tornabuoni Frescoes / Agata Anna Chrzanowska

Literary Representations

Lamenting, Dancing, Praising: The Multilayered Presence of Nymphs in Florentine Elegiac Poetry of the Quattrocento1 / Christoph Pieper

An Epiphanic Figure with the Power to Bind: Lia’s Role in Boccaccio’s Comedia delle ninfe fiorentine / Tobias Leuker

Renaissance Nymphs as Intermediaries in Early Modern German Territorial Politics / Andreas Keller

Discursive Sisters of the Arts, Raw Material of Inspiration: The Early Pegnitz Flower Society’s Nymphs / Damaris Leimgruber

Garden Architecture

The Mediality of the Nymph in the Cultural Context of Pirro Visconti’s Villa at Lainate / Mira Becker-Sawatzky

Nymphs Bathing in the King’s Garden: La Granja de San Ildefonso and Caserta / Eva-Bettina Krems

Music

Venez plorer ma desolation: Lamenting and Mourning Nymphs in Culture and Music around 1500 / Wolfgang Fuhrmann

The Nymph’s Voice as an Acoustic Reflection of the Self / Michaela Kaufmann

Aetiology and Antiquarianism

Founding Sisters: Nymphs and Aetiology in Humanist Latin Poetry / Christian Peters

Our White Ladies on the Graves: Historicisations of Nymphs in Early Modern Antiquarianism / Bernd Roling

Back Matter

Index Nominum.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-36435-8

OCLC:

1023820949

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004364356 DOI