The Figure of the Nymph in Early Modern Culture

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-35184-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 54, 268 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 1058 g

Reihe: Intersections

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Enenkel, Karl A.E.

Traninger, Anita

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Notes on the Editors
Notes on the Contributors
List of Illustrations

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

Part 1: Nymphs Between the Visual Arts and Literature
2 Pleasures of the Imagination: Narrating the Nymph, from Boccaccio to Lope De Vega
Anita Traninger
3 Salmacis, Hermaphrodite, and the Inversion of Gender: Allegorical Interpretations and Pictorial Representations of an Ovidian Myth, ca. 1300–1770
Karl Enenkel
4 The Sleeping Nymph Revisited: Ekphrasis, Genius Loci and Silence
Barbara Baert
5 ‘Who, Then, is the “Nympha”?’ An Iconographic Analysis of the Figure of the Maid in the Tornabuoni Frescoes
Agata Anna Chrzanowska

Part 2: Literary Representations
6 Lamenting, Dancing, Praising: The Multilayered Presence of Nymphs in Florentine Elegiac Poetry of the Quattrocento
Christoph Pieper
7 An Epiphanic Figure with the Power To Bind: Lia’s Role in Boccaccio’s Comedia delle ninfe fiorentine
Tobias Leuker
8 Renaissance Nymphs as Intermediaries in Early Modern German Territorial Politics
Andreas Keller
9 Discursive Sisters of the Arts, Raw Material of Inspiration: The Early Pegnitz Flower Society’s Nymphs
Damaris Leimgruber

Part 3: Garden Architecture
10 The Mediality of the Nymph in the Cultural Context of Pirro Visconti’s Villa at Lainate
Mira Becker-Sawatzky
11 Nymphs Bathing in the King’s Garden: La Granja de San Ildefonso and Caserta
Eva-Bettina Krems

Part 4: Music
12 Venez plorer ma desolation: Lamenting and Mourning Nymphs in Culture and Music Around 1500
Wolfgang Fuhrmann
13 The Nymph’s Voice as an Acoustic Reflection of the Self
Michaela Kaufmann

Part 5: Aetiology and Antiquarianism
14 Founding Sisters: Nymphs and Aetiology in Humanist Latin Poetry
Christian Peters
15 Our White Ladies on the Graves: Historicisations of Nymphs in Early Modern Antiquarianism
Bernd Roling

Index Nominum

Über Autor(innen)

KARL ENENKEL is Professor of Medieval Latin and Neo-Latin at the University of Münster. Previously he was Professor of Neo-Latin at the University of Leiden. He has published widely on international Humanism, early modern culture, paratexts, literary genres 1300-1600, Neo-Latin emblems, word and image relationships, and the history of scholarship and science.

ANITA TRANINGER is Professor of Romance Literatures at Freie Universitat Berlin. Her areas of research include the history of rhetoric and dialectics, European literature and discourses of knowledge from the late Middle Ages to the nineteenth century, the history of gender and institutions, and the fact/fiction divide.