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Luca Signorellis Pan
Titel:
Luca Signorellis Pan
Auteur:
Hauser, Andreas
Verschenen in:
Konsthistorisk tidskrift
Paginering:
Jaargang 68 (1999) nr. 4 pagina's 250-269
Jaar:
1999
Inhoud:
Research has established that Luca Signorelli's puzzling depiction of Pan can be interpreted as a visual programme of the (Neo)Platonic academy in Careggi and a tribute to Marsilio Ficino and Lorenzo de' Medici. The picture portrays the nature god in his Orphic-Pythagorean guise—as an exemplification of the human condition (firmly rooted in the sensual world while aspiring to the divine). Our thesis is that Signorelli's mythological “Sacra Conversazione” also contains a representative of what the Neoplatonists considered the motor of the apperception of God—Love. The youth lying on the ground at the front is, in our opinion, Eros. Initially he had triumphed over Pan, afflicting him with an unrequited passion for the nymph Syrinx, but now it is the nature god that triumphs: by substituting a divine musical instrument (the panpipes) for the woman, he has “sublimated” physical love. The motif used to express the idea of sublimation is curious: with her pipe, Syrinx, symbol of the reed (left, in the attitude of the Muse Calliope), so transforms Cupid's Dionysian power of love that it can give impetus to ecstatic flights of the soul.
Uitgever:
Routledge
Bronbestand:
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften
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