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From Kairos to Occasio through Fortuna. Text / Image / Afterlife On the Antique Critical Moment, a Grisaille in Mantua (School of Mantegna, 1495-1510), and the Fortunes of Aby Warburg (1866-1929)

Harvey Miller Publishers

Testo Italiano e Inglese.
London, 2021; ril., pp. 211, 73 ill. b/n, cm 22x28.

ISBN: 1-912554-62-3 - EAN13: 9781912554621

Soggetto: Saggi (Arte o Architettura),Tessuti (Arazzi, Tappeti, Ricami)

Periodo: 1400-1800 (XV-XVIII) Rinascimento

Testo in: testi in  inglese, italiano  testi in  inglese, italiano  

Peso: 1 kg


The author discusses the Mantuan fresco's key position in the iconographic Nachleben of the Kairos/Occasio figure, and the way the theme was accustomed in the Quattrocento and the transition from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance.

The ancient Greeks had a name for the joy as well as the sorrow of an occasion that suddenly presents itself, but disappears just as swiftly: kairos, or in Latin occasio. Using the Mantua grisaille as starting point and leading motif, Barbara Baert guides us in her own intriguing way through the history of the representation of this figure in art. How did the archaic Greek Kairos model survive in the Quattrocento? Which appearances did Kairos take on along the way and how can we explain his mutations?

The author shows us how the semantic and rhetorical expansion of the concept kairos/occasio brought about gender switches and conflations with other personifications of time and fate. Grasping the lock of hair of Kairos/Occasio, spinning the wheel of fortune of Tyche/Fortuna, acting as the mast of the ship and holding the billowing sails, she steers us through depictions of the motionlessness of the moment throughout history before dropping anchor in the fascinating vocabulary of Aby Warburg. During this journey, she invites us to go offshore looking for a new critical moment that presents itself as a powerful opening of possibilities.

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design e realizzazione: Vincent Wolterbeek / analisi e programmazione: Rocco Barisci