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Mary, Mother of God
By clothing the Word with her flesh, the Virgin Mary made God visible, manifesting Christ as a perfect “image” of the Father. By virtue of this archetypal “artistry” of Incarnation, Mary mediates the tradition of Christian image-making. This volume explores images of the Mother of God in early modern devotion, piety, and power. The book is divided into four sections, the first three of which link the subjects thematically and geographically in Europe, while the last one follows Mary’s legacy. Contributors include: Elliott D. Wise, Anna Dlabačová, James Clifton, Kim Butler Wingfield, Barbara Baert, Steven Ostrow, Barbara Haeger, Shelley Perlove, Cristina Cruz González, and Mehreen Chida-Razvi.
Looking Into the Rain
Humankind has a special relationship with rain. The sensory experience of water falling from the heavens evokes feelings ranging from fear to gratitude and has inspired many works of art. Using unique and expertly developed art-historical case studies – from prehistoric cave paintings up to photography and cinema – this book casts new light on a theme that is both ecological and iconological, both natural and cultural-historical. Barbara Baert’s distinctive prose makes Looking Into the Rain. Magic, Moisture, Medium a profound reading experience, particularly at a moment when disruptions of the harmony among humans, animals, and nature affect all of us and the entire planet. Barbara Baert is Professor of Art History at KU Leuven. She teaches in the field of Iconology, Art Theory & Analysis, and Medieval Art. Her work links knowledge and questions from the history of ideas, cultural anthropology and philosophy, and shows great sensitivity to cultural archetypes and their symptoms in the visual arts.
"Disassembled" Images
The canonical legacy of Allan Sekula in contemporary visual art “Disassembled” Images takes as a point of departure Allan Sekula’s productive approach of disassembling elements in order to reassemble them in alternative constellations. Some of the most pressing issues of our time, such as human labor in a globalized economy or the claim for radical democracy, are recurrent themes in Sekula’s oeuvre and are investigated by a wide range of experts in this book. Addressing a variety of artworks, both by Sekula and other artists, the collected essays focus on three crucial aspects within recent politically engaged art: collecting as a tool for representing folly and madness, the confront...
Illuminating the Middle Ages
The twenty-eight essays in this collection showcase cutting-edge research in manuscript studies, encompassing material from late antiquity to the Renaissance. The volume celebrates the exceptional contribution of John Lowden to the study of medieval books. The authors explore some of the themes and questions raised in John’s work, tackling issues of meaning, making, patronage, the book as an object, relationships between text and image, and the transmission of ideas. They combine John’s commitment to the close scrutiny of manuscripts with an interrogation of what the books meant in their own time and what they mean to us now.
About Sieves and Sieving
The sieve exhibits a wide-ranging symbolism that extends across art history, philosophy, anthropology, psychoanalysis, and gender studies. Barbara Baert looks at the sieve from an interdisciplinary perspective and from four different innovative methodological angles: as motif and symbol, as technique and as paradigm. The sieve as motif goes back to Roman stories the Vestal Virgins. In later times, their impermeable sieve, which - according to legend - they used to fetch water from the River Tiber, was iconographically transferred to Elisabeth I as a sign of her integrity. Furthermore, the long durée life of sieves as symbolic-technical utilitarian object is investigated: in examples from the Jewish folklore, the Berber culture, and ancient Egypt.
Ribera’s Repetitions
The seventeenth-century Valencian artist Jusepe de Ribera spent most of his career in Spanish Viceregal Naples, where he was known as “Lo Spagnoletto,” or “the Little Spaniard.” Working under the patronage of Spanish viceroys, Ribera held a special position bridging two worlds. In Ribera’s Repetitions, art historian Todd P. Olson sheds new light on the complexity of Ribera’s artwork and artistic methods and their connections to the Spanish imperial project. Drawing from a diverse range of sources, including poetry, literature, natural history, philosophy, and political history, Olson presents Ribera’s work in a broad context. He examines how Ribera’s techniques, including rot...
191 | Aby Warburg: His Aims and Methods
In this issue of Engramma: Giulia Zanon’s Zooming Mnemosyne deals with the use of details in Warburg’s Bilderatlas, Monica Centanni’s Collateral effects of the “visibile parlare” (Dante, Pg. X, v. 95) reconstructs the hypothesis of a visual model for the legend of Trajan’s Justice, according to Warburg intuition about it; this contribution is connected of the paper by Filippo Perfetti’s Dante, Botticelli, and Trajan. An Open Note where the author investigates how Botticelli could have come to know that the bas-relief of the Arch of Constantine liberatori urbis was related to an episode in Trajan's life”. The focus of this issue is then extended to Warburg's cultural environme...
e165 | Warburgian Studies
Warburgian Studies. Editoriale Monica Centanni, Anna Fressola e Maurizio Ghelardi Aby Warburg, Manet’s Déjeuner sur l’herbe Maurizio Ghelardi Aby Warburg, Frammenti tra Manet e Mnemosyne [102.1.2] Maurizio Ghelardi e Monica Centanni Estudios Warburgianos en España (2015-2019) Victoria Cirlot Studi warburghiani in Germania (2018-2019) Marilena Calcara Warburgian Studies in Belgium (2016-2019) Stephanie Heremans Warburgian Studies in Russia Ekaterina Mikhailova-Smolniakova Warburgian Studies in the UK (2014-2018) Laura Leuzzi Études sur Raymond Klibansky en Canada Daniela Sacco (versione francese e italiana) Aby Warburg negli studi latino-americani Cássio Fernandes Bibliography. Works by Aby Warburg and secondary literature Anna Fressola B. Baert Fragments. Studies in Iconology. A presentation Barbara Baert e Stephanie Heremans Mondo delle immagini. Immagini del mondo Natalia Mazur e Alessia Cavallaro Super-Powering Warburg Studies Beyond Art History’s Patriarchal Ancestor Cults Emily Verla Bovino
e168 | Connessioni
Editoriale Maria Bergamo, Fabrizio Lollini Il coniglio “festaiuolo” Fabrizio Lollini The Weeping Rock Barbara Baert L’oro di Tarkovskij Giacomo Confortin Tre bocche Luca Capriotti Queering the Body, Birthing the Nation, Gendering God Maurizia Paolucci Icone. Pensare per immagini Massimo Cacciari Pop-App. Libri animati dalla carta alle app Elisa Bastianello Arte e Biennale in tempi interessanti Marianna Gelussi Monumenta marciani Maria Bergamo
