Representations of love in the Early Modern period seen against the backdrop of Baroque theory on symbolic art

巴洛克象征艺术理论背景下现代早期爱情的表现

• 批准号: 464800393
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Stefanie Arend
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Kunstgeschichtliches Seminar
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Units
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/464800393?language=en
• 关键词: Representations; love; Early; Modern; period

This project will conduct the first study of its kind into representations of spiritual love, placing them specifically in the context of Early Modern theories on spiritual intermediality. Based on figurations of Cupid and the heart, the omnipresent symbol of amor spiritualis in this period, it aims to shed some light on the extensive intermedial representations of spiritual love predominantly found in emblematic images. Drawing on quintessential symbols and the combinations of them typically found in the symmedial presentation of books of emblems by Alciato and van Veen, for example, the project will examine the creation, composition and effectiveness of Baroque representations of love and attempt to interpret them against the backdrop of contemporary theories on spiritual intermediality centred around Jakob Masen’s Speculum imaginum veritatis occultae.A further aim is to examine the way in which intermedial aesthetics lends contours to the figure of Cupid, making it enigmatic and multifaceted and allowing it to oscillate between discerning Eros, human emotion and pronouncedly spiritual love, as well as highlighting the complex relationship between ancient tradition and ‘interpretatio Christiana’. In a similar vein, the heart – the embodiment of divine love and of the inner person – will be analysed in its various representations, ranging from a bodily organ to a ‘disembodied’ symbol of spiritual love. Interpreting these complexes inevitably draws on Early Modern theorising on intermediality, as epitomised by Masen around the mid-17th century; the research will attempt to show how he explicitly ascribed ethical, ascetical and mystagogical relevance to the use of symbols, notably to the representation of spiritual love (caritas and amor divinus). The interdisciplinary collaboration between researchers in the fields of German Studies, Neo-Latin Studies and Art History is expected to reveal that the correlation between intermedial text-imagery about Cupid and the heart constitutes a crossing point between horizontal and vertical spiritual intermediality and will also show how this was achieved. The strategies for intermedial Christianisation of the figure of Cupid and of the numerous heart motifs will be juxtaposed in a new approach to understanding how the Early Modern practice of spiritual intermediality provides clarification of the theory, and vice versa.The members of the project will work closely with other sub-projects (particularly SP 1, 3 and 4) to standardise the methodology used and sharpen the perspective. In addition to staging a number of joint workshops on the subject, the participants will present their research findings in two monographs entitled Intermedial Metamorphoses of Cupid, the God of Love, in the Early Modern Period and Baroque Intermediality between Argutia Theory and Spiritual Emblematic Practice. An art history thesis and a study on adaptations of the heart emblem in the Early Modern period will also be written.

这个项目将进行第一次对精神之爱的表征的研究，特别是将它们放在早期现代精神中介理论的背景下。基于丘比特和心脏的比喻，这一时期爱情的无所不在的象征，它的目的是阐明精神之爱的广泛的中介表示主要是在象征性的图像。例如，该项目将借鉴典型的符号和它们的组合，这些符号通常出现在Alciato和货车Veen的象征性书籍中，巴洛克式爱情表现的组成和有效性，并试图在当代以雅各布·马森的《神秘的真实的想象镜》为中心的精神中介理论的背景下解释它们。考察中介美学如何赋予丘比特的形象以轮廓，使其神秘而多面，并允许它在识别爱神，人类情感和明确的精神之爱之间摇摆，以及突出古代传统和“解释基督教”之间的复杂关系。同样，心--神圣之爱和内在人格的化身--将被分析为各种各样的表征，从身体器官到精神之爱的“非实体”象征。解释这些情结不可避免地借鉴了早期现代理论的中介性，由梅森在世纪中期的缩影;研究将试图表明他如何明确地归因于道德，禁欲主义和神秘学的相关性，以使用符号，特别是精神之爱的代表（caritas和amor divinus）。德国研究，新拉丁研究和艺术史领域的研究人员之间的跨学科合作预计将揭示关于丘比特和心脏的中间文本图像之间的相关性构成了水平和垂直精神中间性之间的交叉点，并将展示这是如何实现的。丘比特形象和众多心形图案的中间基督教化策略将以一种新的方法并列，以理解早期现代精神中间性的实践如何为理论提供澄清，反之亦然。该项目的成员将与其他子项目（特别是SP 1，3和4）密切合作，以总结所使用的方法并提高视角。除了举办一些关于这一主题的联合研讨会外，与会者还将在两本专著中介绍他们的研究成果，这两本专著分别名为《爱神丘比特在现代早期的中介变形》和《阿格西亚理论与精神象征实践之间的巴洛克中介性》。艺术史论文和研究的适应心徽在近代早期也将被写入。