Can I read From Winckelmann’s Apollo to Nietzsche’s Dionysus on EtoBox?
From Winckelmann’s Apollo to Nietzsche’s Dionysus by Babette Babich is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.
What is From Winckelmann’s Apollo to Nietzsche’s Dionysus about?
Perhaps the most significant dissonance of several such regarding the Laocoön group Pliny famously reports seeing in the house of the Emperor Titus 1 is that the marble statue, presumably, so Bernard Andreae reasonably argues, modeled on a Greek bronze original, was said to have been hewn from a single stone.2 Yet the Laocoön associated with Johann Joachim Winkelmann, unearthed in 1506, was not formed from a single block of marble (ex uno lapide).3 -A second dissonance concerns color. I have elsewhere written on ancient Greek bronzes, specifically the life-size variety, calling attention to their abundance, likewise as cited in Pliny, reviewing the conditions of their manufacture in such abundance, and like statues of marble, wood, ceramic, etc., bronze was differently colored, depending on how it was made, as on its various constituents, given the overall phenomenon of polychromy. Thus the Vergilius Vaticanus (ca. 400 CE) depicts Laocoön with a bright red cape unfurling above the priest's head, standing erect with one knee on an altar. In this image, two green snakes encircle both arms raised in alarm, crossing his chest, the snakes entwine two baby sons dangling at either side, t
Who reads From Winckelmann’s Apollo to Nietzsche’s Dionysus?
It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Arts and Humanities.
- Author
- Babette Babich
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)