From Kairos to Occasio through Fortuna
type: CreativeWork
about: Person
  alternate name: Occasio (Roman deity)
about: Person
  alternate name: Kairos (Greek deity)
about: DefinedTerm
  alternate name: Grisaille painting
about: DefinedTerm
  alternate name: Idols and images
about: DefinedTerm
  alternate name: Civilization, Classical--Influence
about: DefinedTerm
  alternate name: 1400-1499
about: DefinedTerm
  alternate name: Kairos (The Greek word)
about: DefinedTerm
  alternate name: Mural painting and decoration, Italian
about: DefinedTerm
  alternate name: Iconology
about: DefinedTerm
  alternate name: Mythology, Classical, in art
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/310120613
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/31073223
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320126558
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320126561
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320128776
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320130589
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320130593
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/330135847
abstract: The author discusses the Mantuan fresco's key position in the iconographic 'Nachleben' of the Kairos/Occasio figure, and the way the theme was accustomed in the Quattrocento and the transition from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. The ancient Greeks had a name for the joy as well as the sorrow of an occasion that suddenly presents itself, but disappears just as swiftly: kairos, or in Latin occasio. Using the Mantua grisaille as starting point and leading motif, Barbara Baert guides us in her own intriguing way through the history of the representation of this figure in art. How did the archaic Greek Kairos model survive in the Quattrocento? Which appearances did Kairos take on along the way and how can we explain his mutations? The author shows us how the semantic and rhetorical expansion of the concept kairos/occasio brought about gender switches and conflations with other personifications of time and fate. Grasping the lock of hair of Kairos/Occasio, spinning the wheel of fortune of Tyche/Fortuna, acting as the mast of the ship and holding the billowing sails, she steers us through depictions of the motionlessness of the moment throughout history before dropping anchor in the fascinating vocabulary of Aby Warburg. During this journey, she invites us to go offshore looking for a new critical moment that presents itself as a powerful opening of possibilities.
creator: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/3105071
language: dut
language: eng
name: On the Antique critical moment, a grisaille in Mantua (School of Mantegna, 1495-1510), and the Fortunes of Aby Warburg (1866-1929)
subject of: Statement
  additional type: http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300435416
  text: Includes translation
work example: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/301313250

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