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The resurgence of the Sleeping Ariadne posture in two “Death of Cleopatra” painted by Artemisia Gentileschi demonstrates the existence of an operation of semantic migration around gestures inherited from Antiquity and emerging in Renaissance religious or profane paintings. In this paper, I try to in...

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Main Author: Marion Beaufils
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: Centre d´Histoire et Théorie des Arts 2018-12-01
Series:Images Re-Vues
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/imagesrevues/5219
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Summary:The resurgence of the Sleeping Ariadne posture in two “Death of Cleopatra” painted by Artemisia Gentileschi demonstrates the existence of an operation of semantic migration around gestures inherited from Antiquity and emerging in Renaissance religious or profane paintings. In this paper, I try to investigate the modalities of these resurgences by detecting their underlying symbolic logics. In an approach inherited from Aby Warburg and Jacob Burckhardt, I attempt to delimit an anthropological context where I focus especially on Post-Tridentine theology and its discourse toward flesh and the feminine.
ISSN:1778-3801