This volume seeks 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.
Author(s): Karl A E Enenkel; Anita Traninger
Edition: ebook
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2018
Language: English
Pages: 492
Contents......Page 5
Acknowledgements......Page 9
Notes on the Editors......Page 10
Notes on the Contributors......Page 12
List of Illustrations......Page 16
Chapter 1 Introduction: The Figure of the Nymph in Early Modern Culture......Page 25
Part 1 Nymphs between the Visual Arts and Literature......Page 37
Chapter 2 Pleasures of the Imagination: Narrating the Nymph, from Boccaccio to Lope De Vega......Page 39
Chapter 3 Salmacis, Hermaphrodite, and the Inversion of Gender: Allegorical Interpretations and Pictorial Representations of an Ovidian Myth, ca. 1300–1770......Page 77
Chapter 4 The Sleeping Nymph Revisited: Ekphrasis, Genius Loci and Silence......Page 173
Chapter 5 ‘Who, Then, is the “Nympha”?’ An Iconographic Analysis of the Figure of the Maid in the Tornabuoni Frescoes......Page 201
Part 2 Literary Representations......Page 217
Chapter 6 Lamenting, Dancing, Praising: The Multilayered Presence of Nymphs in Florentine Elegiac Poetry of the Quattrocento......Page 219
Chapter 7 An Epiphanic Figure with the Power to Bind: Lia’s Role in Boccaccio’s Comedia delle ninfe fiorentine......Page 249
Chapter 8 Renaissance Nymphs as Intermediaries in Early Modern German Territorial Politics......Page 262
Chapter 9 Discursive Sisters of the Arts, Raw Material of Inspiration: The Early Pegnitz Flower Society’s Nymphs......Page 289
Part 3 Garden Architecture......Page 327
Chapter 10 The Mediality of the Nymph in the Cultural Context of Pirro Visconti’s Villa at Lainate......Page 329
Chapter 11 Nymphs Bathing in the King’s Garden: La Granja de San Ildefonso and Caserta......Page 361
Part 4 Music......Page 395
Chapter 12 Venez plorer ma desolation: Lamenting and Mourning Nymphs in Culture and Music around 1500......Page 397
Chapter 13 The Nymph’s Voice as an Acoustic Reflection of the Self......Page 420
Part 5 Aetiology and Antiquarianism......Page 443
Chapter 14 Founding Sisters: Nymphs and Aetiology in Humanist Latin Poetry......Page 445
Chapter 15 Our White Ladies on the Graves: Historicisations of Nymphs in Early Modern Antiquarianism......Page 469
Index Nominum......Page 487
