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Название:Pandoras box - the changing aspects of a mythical symbol by Dora and Erwin Panofsky

Издательство:Princeton University Press

Автор:Dora Panofsky (Author), Erwin Panofsky (Author)

Год: 1956

Язык:English

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Pandora, the "pagan Eve," is one of the rare mythological figures to have retained a vitality up to our day. Glorified by Calderon, Voltaire, and Goethe, she is yet familiar to the man in the street, and "Pandora's box" is a byword. She has been amply discussed by historians of Greek religion and literature, but little attention has been paid to her history in the postclassical era. Pandora is practically absent

from major Latin literature, she was nearly forgotten during the Middle Ages, and her revival in the Renaissance took place under abnormal conditions: she came to life in France rather than Italy, and she achieved popularity as a literary rather than an artistic figure. The very attribute that made her famous was originally neither a box nor, properly, hers.

The present study, containing some 60 halftone illustrations, traces the history of Pandora and of "Pandora's box" in European literature and art from Roman times to the present.

Dora and Erwin Panofsky

PANDORA'S BOX

The Changing Aspects of o Mythical Symbol

Pandora, the "pagan Eve," is one of the rare

mythological figures to have retained a vitality

up to our day. Glorified by Calderon, Voltaire,

and Goethe, she is yet familiar to the man in

the street, and "Pandora's box" is a byword.

She has been amply discussed by historians of

Greek religion and literature, but little attention

has been paid to her history in the postclassical

era. Pandora is practically absent

from major Latin literature, she was nearly

forgotten during the Middle Ages, and her

revival in the Renaissance took place under

abnormal conditions: she came to life in France

rather than Italy, and she achieved popularity

as a literary rather than an artistic figure. The

very attribute that made her famous was

originally neither a box nor, properly, hers.

The present study, containing some 60 halftone

illustrations, traces the history of Pandora

and of "Pandora's box" in European literature

and art from Roman times to the present.

In presentation, it resembles Jean Seznec's

The Survival of the Pagan Gods (Bollingen

Series XXXVIII).

Erwin Panofsky, who has been a professor

in the Institute for Advanced Study, at Princeton,

since 1935, formerly taught at Hamburg

University. As an art historian, he has had a

continual interest in the survival of classical

motifs in postclassical art. Dora Panofsky, his

wife, studied the history of art with Aby Warburg

and F. SaxI in Germany and has published

articles on the mythological landscapes

of Poussin and other subjects.

Jacket design by Herbert Bayer