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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)
, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2021 Hardback, iv + 211 pages, Size:220 x 280 mm, Illustrations:73 b/w, Language: English. ISBN 9781912554621.
Summary 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.
Het 'Boec van den Houte'
Brussel, 1995 126pp.+ 65 platen buitentekst, 26cm., mooie staat, in de reeks "Koninklijke Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten. Klasse der Schone Kunsten" jg.57 nr.62, S57408
To Touch or Not to Touch ? Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the 'Noli me tangere'
Leuven, Peeters 2013 xi + 261pp., 24cm., softcover, in the series ""Annua Nuntia Lovaniensia" LXVII (67), fine condition, ISBN 978-90-429-2625-7, [Contains 8 contributions, in English], R98772
Een erfenis van heilig hout. De neerslag van het teruggevonden kruis in tekst en beeld tijdens de Middeleeuwen.
.: Leuven, Universitaire Pers, 2001, in-8°, 474 pp, with 96 ills. and 9 plates, index, bibliography, softcover. Text in Dutch. Boek in het Nederlands. Study on the iconography and literature of the Roman Catholic relics of the wooden Holy Cross in mediaeval times..
