The figure of the nymph in early modern culture /

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

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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 the...

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TeilnehmendeR:
Enenkel, K. A. E.,
Traninger, Anita,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Intersections 54.
Physical Description:1 online resource (492 pages).
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Table of 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.

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